Section Engineer

About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a Section Engineer to join our team on the Highways A57 Mottram Moor Link Road Scheme, this role will be based within the Manchester / Longdendale area

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.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

Engineering Control:

• Carry out complex setting out
• Provision of ‘primary’ setting out control and recognizes the optimum location for installation
• Coaches subordinates in the use of setting out techniques

Quality:

• Produces Activity Control Plans
• Actively uses the Specification as a reference document
• Maintains a comprehensive filing system of quality records
• Identifies, raises and actions Non Conformance Reports
• Identifies and raises Technical Queries with possible solutions

Health Safety & Environmental:

• Produces Method Statements and Risk Assessments
• Prepares and raises Temporary Works Briefs
• Carries out ‘short term’, Visitors Induction
• Completes Accident Book and associated reports as required

Productivity:

• Produces a weekly programme and measures progress against KPI’s
• Communicates weekly programme and targets to the workforce

Commercial:

• Collates Weekly Measure information and monitors wastage against budget allowances / KPI’s
• Carries out a labour and plant reconciliation
• Identifies items of additional work and raises the necessary notifications
• Works to specific terms, conditions and outputs of relevant subcontractors and suppliers

The following experience/qualifications are required:

Engineering Control:

• Able to carry out complex setting out

Quality:

• Understands and has experience of producing ACP
• Understanding of construction tolerances
• Awareness of Specification and other Contract documents

Health Safety & Environmental:

• Understands Permit System and actively raises permits to Work
• Is able to identify potential hazards and is proactive in implementing actions and controls

Productivity:

• Understands and can use the information provided in the 13 week Stage Programme

Commercial:

• Good understanding of key contract documentation
• Understands specific terms, conditions and outputs of relevant subcontractors and suppliers

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.

Why join us?

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.

Diversity and inclusion

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