Site Engineer

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Site 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 Site Engineer, you will be tasked with undertaking control and implementation of works on site, supporting the Design Engineering team in delivering projects related to our Lower Thames Crossing project.

• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities
• Production of Task Briefing Sheets
• Contribution to production of Permit to Dig, including briefing to the workforce
• Carries out Safety Inspections
• Setting out from primary control provided by others
• Provision of sketches detailing the setting out information installed
• Read and determine information from drawings, schedules and specification
• Using and Navigating the design model using Navisworks
• Production of as-built drawings & records for every element of the works involved in
• Works to Weekly Programme (drafted by others) and marks up progress achieved weekly
• Production of accurate daily diary of resources, including labour, plant, materials, subcontractors and outputs

• Able to clearly communicate the requirements of a safe system of work to ensure that these are followed accurately
• Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes
• Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights
• Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card
• Understands Permit to Dig System
• Environmental awareness
• Setting out techniques – ability to use level & EDM, plus GPS
• Awareness and use of Specification and other Contract documents
• Able to take off and schedule material quantities accurately

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 42 core base hours per week
• Company car
• Hybrid working available
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our  portal.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• 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.

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