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Job No. BBUK20663
Regional Civils
Design Engineering
Working within a highly experienced and collaborative team, you'll be responsible for driving engineering excellence on site, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. Regional Civils is proud to deliver vital infrastructure that improves connectivity and leaves a lasting legacy for local communities, offering the opportunity to work on challenging projects while developing your career with one of the UK's leading infrastructure businesses.
As a Section Engineer, you'll take ownership of key elements of project delivery, coordinating site activities, managing technical compliance, and supporting project teams to achieve programme and performance objectives. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious engineer looking to take the next step in their career while contributing to the successful delivery of major highways schemes throughout the North East.
Leading complex setting out activities across highways and civil engineering works, ensuring all work is delivered to the required specifications and tolerances.
Establishing and maintaining primary setting out control, selecting optimal locations for installation and verification of engineering control points.
Coaching and supporting Site Engineers and junior team members in setting out techniques and engineering best practice.
Producing and managing Activity Control Plans to ensure works are delivered in line with project quality requirements.
Using project specifications, drawings, and technical documentation to ensure compliance throughout delivery.
Maintaining accurate and comprehensive quality records, ensuring all inspections and documentation are completed and stored correctly.
Identifying, raising, and closing out Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) and Technical Queries (TQs), providing practical engineering solutions where required.
Producing Method Statements and Risk Assessments (MSRAs) to support the safe execution of project activities.
Preparing and raising Temporary Works Briefs and coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure safe implementation.
Delivering visitor inductions and promoting a strong health, safety, and environmental culture across site operations.
Supporting incident reporting requirements, including completing accident reports and associated documentation when required.
Producing weekly programmes and monitoring progress against project milestones and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Communicating work plans, targets, and priorities to site teams to ensure safe and efficient delivery.
Collating weekly measurement data and monitoring productivity, materials usage, and wastage against budget allowances and project KPIs.
Completing labour and plant reconciliations to support accurate project controls and reporting.
Identifying additional works, variations, and change requirements, ensuring the appropriate commercial notifications are raised.
Managing and coordinating subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring works are delivered in line with agreed specifications, outputs, and contractual requirements.
Supporting the successful delivery of major highways and infrastructure projects by providing technical leadership, quality assurance, and engineering expertise throughout the construction lifecycle.
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.
Why join us?
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…
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com
