Soil Engineering Geoservices Limited
SEGL General Operative
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Soil Engineering’s greatest resource is our people. Specialists in their field, benefitting from extensive training, support, and long-term career development through delivering excellent projects for our clients, our people are at the heart of everything we do.
You'll appreciate the opportunity to apply your talents to projects that will provide you with the kind of challenges your skills deserve.
As a talented professional, this exciting role offers you the perfect opportunity to apply your skills to real-world projects that challenge and develop your potential. You’ll receive hands-on training and experience to build a rewarding career in construction.
The Role
We are looking for candidates to assist and support activities on site or with the Plant depot, by undertaking labouring tasks, such as establish/remove temporary fencing, moving equipment around site, operating sampling equipment, excavation of hand dug pits, and laying / lifting grouting lines.
What You'll Be Doing
Working away Monday to Friday, on sites across the UK, you will be part of the operational site team delivering works for our Clients.
Responsible for safely undertaking a range of duties to support the site team, including:
- Excavation: Digging trial pits and trenches to allow engineers to inspect ground strata.
- Rig Assistance: Helping drillers move, set up, and operate cable percussion or rotary drilling equipment, alongside loading of materials in grout mixer, mixing of grout and placement of grout (including grout take records).
- Sampling: Packing soil, rock, grout and water samples into appropriate containers for laboratory testing and the installation of monitoring equipment into borehole (e.g. standpipes, piezometers etc)
- Maintenance: Maintaining of work areas, clearing spoil, slurry and waste materials.
- Safety & Standards: Maintaining site security, managing materials, organisation of tools, fuel, equipment and materials, and adhering strictly to health and safety protocols and RAMS.
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What We’re Looking For
You will need to hold an appropriate CSCS card (Minimum Green CSCS labourer card), and be able to work to a defined health and safety management system, with an understanding of what is required from yourself and other colleagues.
You will need to hold a Full UK Driving Licence.
You should be prepared for a variety of workloads from general routine jobs, to task that carry out responsibility. You should have good planning and organisation skills, and need to have excellent problem solving skills, use your own initiative, have great attention to detail, excellent communication skills, a professional approach and good customer-service focus.
Why Soil Engineering?
Soil Engineering brings over 60 years of experience, and our highly-skilled team provides leading geotechnical expertise through ground investigation, drilling and grouting, and geotechnical testing.
A career at Soil Engineering means working with leading experts and continuously building your knowledge as part of a supportive community that takes care of one another.
When you join the world’s largest specialist geotechnical contractor, you’re part of an international community of over 10,000 experts, based in 31 countries around the world. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to prestigious, ground-breaking projects, using the very latest tools and technology to solve complex problems, constantly learn new skills and take your career in any direction.
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We view every project as a unique challenge. Our approach is to question the norm and understand Client needs, where we can add value to the overall project delivery.
Enjoy a benefits package that prioritises you! Here’s what you can expect:
- Career Support: including pathways to professional training and development.
- Time for you: Holiday allowance.
- Family Friendly: Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity leave.
- Health, Fitness and Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Virtual GP access, Optional Dental Plan, Routine Company Medical and health checks, Occupational Health & Wellbeing Support, Save money while commuting with our Cycle to Work Scheme and access to gym discounts.
- Give Back: Receive a paid day to volunteer for a charity of your choice.
- Finances: Competitive pay, Discretionary Bonus Scheme, Option to purchase shares in our Group Share Scheme at a discounted rate, Enhanced Sick Pay (after probation), Join our contributory workplace pension scheme and Life Assurance for financial security.
Soil Engineering Geoservices Limited is committed to equal opportunities in employment, with the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or belief and pregnancy/maternity.
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