Balfour Beatty plc
Setting Out Site Engineer
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About The Role
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Site Engineer to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17km of complex Highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme-wide, industry-leading approach to carbon reduction.
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities in creating communities where people want to live, work, and play.
As a Site Engineer, you will be tasked with undertaking control and implementation of works on site, supporting the Design Engineering team in delivering projects related to our Lower Thames Crossing project.
What you'll be doing
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
- Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities
- Production of Task Briefing Sheets
- Contribution to production of Permit to Dig, including briefing to the workforce
- Carries out Safety Inspections
- Setting out from primary control provided by others
- Provision of sketches detailing the setting out information installed
- Read and determine information from drawings, schedules, and specifications
- Using and Navigating the design model using Navisworks
- Production of as-built drawings & records for every element of the works involved in
- Works to Weekly Programme (drafted by others) and marks up progress achieved weekly
- Production of accurate daily diary of resources, including labor, plant, materials, subcontractors, and outputs
Who we're looking for
- Able to clearly communicate the requirements of a safe system of work to ensure that these are followed accurately
- Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes
- Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights
- Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card
- Understands Permit to Dig System
- Environmental awareness
- Setting out techniques – ability to use level & EDM, plus GPS
- Awareness and use of Specification and other Contract documents
- Able to take off and schedule material quantities accurately
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Still interested? Then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry-leading customer satisfaction scores, and has unrivaled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate:
- An attractive / negotiated salary
- 42 core base hours per week
- Company car
- Hybrid working available
- 25 days annual leave
- Pension savings schemes
- A whole host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers, etc)
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.
Why work for us
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?
Benefits
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:
- 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
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About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programs, complex national infrastructure projects, and regional investment program works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions, and add social value to the communities within which we work.
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
We are 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/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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