Site or Senior Engineer

Site Engineer / Senior Site Engineer

Sector:
Civil Engineering

Location:

Cumbernauld, Scotland

• Competitive annual salary, negotiable based on experience
• Company car or car allowance
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Up to 3 volunteer days per year
• Company contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance coverage
• Medicash Health Cash Plan & Rewards
• Support for personal and professional development with clear career progression pathways
• Consistent learning and development opportunities
• A safe and inclusive workplace
• Employee forums to ensure your voice is heard

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Site Engineer or Senior Site Engineer to join our dynamic team, focusing on a range of rail infrastructure and associated civil engineering works. This role is ideal for individuals eager to enhance their expertise within a collaborative and fast-paced project and maintenance environment.

You will be part of a busy team dealing with a variety of multi-disciplinary civil engineering projects. Typical projects may encompass civil engineering works such as:

• Highways and roads
• Underbridges, over bridges, and footbridges
• Tunnels and flood alleviation projects
• Earthworks and embankments
• Substation civils & access roads

We are currently engaged in several live infrastructure projects and long-term renewals and maintenance frameworks, including Scottish Power & Energy Networks, SSE, Drax & BEAR Scotland.

As a Site/Senior Site Engineer, you will be an integral member of the Operational team, tasked with the delivery of civils infrastructure projects across Scotland as outlined above. Your reporting line will be to the Project Manager/Site Agents, and your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring safety, health, environmental, and quality standards for all site activities
• Reviewing and interpreting project drawings and specifications for site-based work
• Setting out and surveying works on site
• Maintaining high professional standards in site engineering
• Supervising site activities, including labour, plant, and subcontractors
• Keeping comprehensive and accurate records, including site diaries
• Managing materials take‑off and ordering
• Planning daily and weekly site works and assisting in risk assessments and work package documentation
• Overseeing sub‑contractors and site engineers

• Degree / HNC / HND in Civil Engineering

• Proven setting out experience with a strong understanding of surveying
• Ability to interpret contract drawings and specifications accurately
• Responsible for dimensional control on site
• Supervisory experience over labour, plant, materials, and sub‑contractors
• Proficient record‑keeping skills for progress and quality control
• Experience in planning weekly site works including documentation such as Inspection Test Plans and Work Package Plans

Amco Giffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is proactively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job.

Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with Amco Giffen.