Assistant Project Engineer

Assistant Project Engineer – Environment Normanton - South Yorkshire

An opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Project Engineer to join the team at Galliford Try. You will work on our Yorkshire Water Infrastructure Framework within our Asset Creation North & East Business, delivering schemes to the Water Industry across Clean & Waste schemes. Ideally based in or around South Yorkshire, you will travel across multiple sites/projects in the region.

As an Assistant Project Engineer with Galliford Try, you will work as part of the Pre‑Construction Team, assisting with solution development, design management and documentation, ensuring consistent standards across all projects. You will share market‑leading suggestions and ideas with the Project Delivery team to lead optimisation and performance. Day‑to‑day you will collaborate with other engineers to deliver a safe working site, supporting with compiling and updating plans and works information, identifying changes and reporting these to the Site Supervisor.

Conduct early site investigation works, attend and input towards internal and client design reviews. You’ll be responsible for Health & Safety, encouraging a safe and collaborative working environment.

We seek individuals with a passion for your engineering discipline, logical and critical thinking skills, and a relevant engineering qualification. Experience in a national and multi‑site business or the Water Industry is desirable but not essential. You must be able to demonstrate key attributes:

• Desire to understand and promote the Company purpose, vision, values and culture
• Organised, structured, professional, with a passion for excellence, striving to deliver the best
• Flexibility, resilience, ability to influence and build relationships with key stakeholders, demonstrating strong ethical standards with openness and honesty
• Commitment to excellent customer service, passionate, committed and enthusiastic in all you do
• A self‑starter with a can‑do attitude, eager to pick up new challenges, dedicated to working together to achieve results

You must have ECS & EUSR (Clean Water Hygiene) training or be willing to obtain it.

With an impressive order book over £4.1 billion, we are a leading principal contractor offering stability, growth and ambitious strategy. Join diverse teams at a professional level, access our ‘Be Well’ programme, high‑quality training, our Career Paths initiative, and our Agile Working programme for flexible work designs.

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options and free 24/7 employee assistance programme support
• Paid yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

Galliford Try is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our Environment business, please contact Ryan De Stadler on ry

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full‑time, reduced hours or flexibly; this will be discussed in the recruitment process.