Section Engineer - Lower Thames Crossing

About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Section Engineer to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project
, consisting of 43 bridges
, including viaducts
, 17km of complex Highways construction
, complex utility diversions
, and a scheme-wide, industry leading approach to carbon reduction . Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play. As a Section Engineer you will take ownership of engineering activities across a defined section of works. This is a hands‑on site‑based role where you’ll help translate plans into safe, high‑quality delivery, supporting the project team with setting out, quality control, health and safety, programme management and commercial awareness.

• Carrying out complex setting out and establishing primary control, ensuring works are delivered accurately and in line with project requirements.
• Coaching and supporting junior engineers and site colleagues in setting out techniques and engineering best practice.
• Producing Activity Control Plans, maintaining quality records and using specifications and contract documents as key reference points.
• Identifying, raising and progressing Non‑Conformance Reports and Technical Queries, offering practical solutions where required.
• Preparing Method Statements, Risk Assessments and Temporary Works Briefs, while actively promoting safe systems of work.
• Supporting site inductions, accident reporting and proactive hazard identification to help maintain high health, safety and environmental standards.
• Producing weekly programmes, communicating targets to the workforce and measuring progress against agreed KPIs.
• Collating weekly measure information, monitoring wastage, completing labour and plant reconciliations and identifying additional works for notification.

• Experience carrying out complex setting out on construction or civil engineering projects.
• Good understanding of quality processes, including Activity Control Plans, construction tolerances, specifications and project records.
• Awareness of health, safety and environmental requirements, with the confidence to identify hazards and implement appropriate controls.
• Ability to use programme information, including short‑term and 13‑week programmes, to plan and monitor progress.
• Commercial awareness, including understanding of key contract documents and subcontractor or supplier requirements.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to give clear direction, liaise with site teams and support a collaborative working environment.
• A practical, organised and solutions‑focused approach, with a commitment to delivering work safely, right first time and to programme.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.