Balfour Beatty plc
Section Engineer - Nights
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About The Role
Role Purpose: To lead and control the engineering delivery of a defined section of works, ensuring that construction is planned, set out, inspected, recorded, and delivered safely, accurately, and in line with programme, budget, quality requirements, and project standards.
The Section Engineer will lead and support Site Engineers, Assistant Engineers, supervisors, and subcontractors within the allocated section. The role will provide the link between engineering control, construction delivery, quality, programme, commercial records, and safe systems of work.
The role requires good civil engineering judgement, strong site awareness, and the ability to work across several construction disciplines without being limited to one specialist area.
What you'll be doing
Engineering Control
- Lead engineering control for the allocated section of works, ensuring works are set out, checked, inspected, and recorded in line with drawings, specifications, permits, and project requirements.
- Provide guidance to Site Engineers and Assistant Engineers on setting out, survey control, technical checks, construction tolerances, and record keeping.
- Ensure survey control, setting out information, calibration records, and as-built data are accurate and complete.
- Identify clashes, missing information, level issues, tolerance risks, and constructability concerns at an early stage.
Delivery and Support
- Support safe and efficient delivery of civil engineering and construction works within the allocated section.
- Coordinate day-to-day site activities with supervisors, subcontractors, suppliers, and delivery teams.
- Ensure drawings, RAMS, permits, temporary works, labour, plant, materials, access, and inspections are in place prior to commencement.
- Support delivery across enabling works, earthworks, drainage, underground services, roads, pavements, concrete works, structures, buildings, temporary works, logistics, and general construction.
- Resolve site issues where possible and escalate risks impacting safety, quality, programme, cost, or handover.
Health, Safety, Environmental
- Lead by example and support Balfour Beatty values, Zero Harm, and project safety standards.
- Review, contribute to, and communicate RAMS, task briefings, permits, and safe systems of work.
- Ensure Permit to Dig, temporary works, lifting, access, traffic management, and service avoidance controls are implemented where required.
- Stop or escalate works where controls, information, or site conditions are inadequate.
- Support environmental controls covering silt, water, waste, concrete washout, fuel, dust, noise, spoil management, and pollution prevention.
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Quality, Testing and Records
- Manage inspection and test plans, check sheets, hold points, and testing requirements for the allocated section.
- Maintain accurate quality records including photographs, red-line drawings, as-built information, and handover documentation.
- Raise, manage, and close NCRs, defects, and snags in accordance with project processes.
- Ensure works meet drawings, specifications, and quality requirements.
- Promote right-first-time delivery and ensure records are produced progressively.
Commercial and Finance
- Maintain accurate records of labour, plant, materials, subcontract resources, outputs, delays, instructions, and site conditions, including weekly measures, take-offs, material reconciliations, and progress tracking.
- Understand potential additional works and ensure robust factual records are maintained.
- Provide timely information to support commercial teams with cost control, change management, and recovery.
- Monitor section performance against budget, programme, and planned outputs.
Who we're looking for
- Previous experience in a Section Engineer role, Site Engineer role, or similar civil engineering delivery role.
- Good understanding of civil engineering and/or construction and site delivery.
- Ability to lead engineering control for a defined section of works.
- Ability to read and understand drawings, specifications, permits, schedules, and construction details.
- Experience with setting out, survey control, technical checks, and construction tolerances.
- Understanding of RAMS, Permit to Dig, inspection and test plans, quality records, and site documentation.
- Ability to produce and manage records, progress updates, as-built information, and material reconciliations.
- Ability to coordinate site teams, subcontractors, and junior engineers.
- Good communication skills and confidence raising issues where information or controls are not suitable.
- Ability to manage own time and work across several site priorities.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and relevant project systems.
- Valid CSCS card.
- SMSTS or willingness to obtain SMSTS where required.
- Willingness to work weekends, nights, or adjusted shifts where required.
Why work for us
Our people are our biggest asset, and we focus on recruiting, training, and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary, and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level.
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Some Of Our Key Benefits Are
- An attractive/negotiated salary
- Company car or car allowance
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Pension savings schemes
- Enhanced maternity/paternity and family-friendly policies
- Access to our Refer and Earn scheme
- Discretionary annual salary reviews
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.
From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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