Site Engineer

Location

South West England | United Kingdom

Job description

About the role

Shape the world of tomorrow as a Site Engineer with an infrastructure leader. Developing your engineering skills on inspiring projects with people who really know their stuff, you'll get to explore career paths across the biggest organisation of our kind . W e build landmarks. We build futures. And together, we build up our engineers to become the best at what they do.

This is an opportunity to work on a large scale complex Construction and Building Services project in the Defence sector based in the South West of England

What you'll be doing

As a Site Engineer with us, you'll discover a breadth of projects you wont find elsewhere. Working on the largest scales, this is your chance to:

• Oversee complex works and instruct talented teams on how to build them
• Measure productivity on site and keep it all on track through engineering controls
• Grow your skills and network across our vast business
• Develop your career, from surveying and design to senior engineering roles
• Build health and safety into everything from checking safe systems on sites to producing H&S documentation
• Keep quality at the highest levels and meet design specs to the letter
• Create commercially-focused delivery plans for shorter sections of the master build
• Shape world-changing projects whether you choose to work nationally or regionally
• Learn on the job from engineering and other experts and through ongoing training.

Who we're looking for

Making an impact every day as a Site Engineer , you'll need:

• Engineering experience and a strong understanding of technical issues and trends
• Up-to-date knowledge of engineering and industry best practice
• A relevant engineering degree and professional qualifications, or equivalent
• The confidence to advise senior managers when action needs taking and follow up
• To build relationships across Balfour Beatty and with external partners
• A passion for what we could achieve together and pride in a job well done.
• Preference will be for Candidates with Security Clearance

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

In UK Construction Services England & Wales business, our aim is to be the partner of choice; the go-to in our sector, trusted to deliver for our customers. We work across a huge and exciting range of sectors, including aviation, building, civils, defence and energy.

From ground investigations and flood defence to complex roads and bridges; primary schools to world class universities; ground-breaking hospitals to city centre living; the depth of our experience and quality of our projects is something we are proud of.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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