Job Description

Site Engineer

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Site Engineer to join our team on a major, high-profile infrastructure scheme. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering a complex civil engineering project comprising large-scale earthworks, highways, drainage, and structural works.

Working as part of a collaborative delivery team, you will be responsible for ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards of quality.

Site Engineer Key Responsibilities

• Setting out works in accordance with design drawings and specifications.
• Managing engineering control and surveying activities across multiple work fronts.
• Carrying out as-built surveys and maintaining accurate site records.
• Producing and maintaining quality assurance documentation, including ITPs, check sheets, and inspection records.
• Reviewing drawings, technical specifications, and construction information to ensure accurate delivery.
• Raising and managing technical queries (TQs/RFIs) with the design team.
• Coordinating subcontractors and ensuring works are completed in line with programme requirements.
• Monitoring progress and reporting engineering updates to the Site Agent and Project Manager.
• Supporting the planning and sequencing of construction activities.
• Ensuring compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Assisting with temporary works implementation and coordination where required.

Site Engineer Key Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate experience in several of the following areas:

• Previous experience as a Site Engineer on major civil engineering or infrastructure projects.
• Setting out using Leica or Trimble GPS, total stations, and digital surveying equipment.
• Delivery of large-scale earthworks, including cut and fill operations, bulk excavation, embankment construction, and ground modelling.
• Highways construction, including pavement layers, kerbing, drainage, road alignments, and associated infrastructure.
• Reinforced concrete and structural works, including foundations, retaining walls, culverts, bridge structures, headwalls, and reinforced concrete bases.
• Drainage installation, including foul, surface water, attenuation, and utility diversions.
• Quality assurance processes, including inspection and test plans (ITPs), material compliance, and handover documentation.
• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings, specifications, and digital design models.
• Managing subcontractors and coordinating engineering activities across multiple disciplines.
• Experience working to demanding construction programmes while maintaining quality and safety standards.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, and environmental requirements on large infrastructure projects.
• Experience working under NEC contracts (desirable).

Qualifications

• Degree, HNC, or HND in Civil Engineering or a related discipline.
• Valid CSCS Card.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

To apply

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