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Site Engineer
Site Engineer
Business Department: Bethell Construction Area: Greater Manchester Positions Available: 2
Job Summary
Take responsibility for setting-out the works in accordance with contract drawings/specifications, ensuring all constructed works accurately reflect the intended dimensions. Verify construction progress and collaborate with partners, sub-contractors, operatives, and professionals to deliver cost-efficient outcomes while maintaining alignment with drawings/specifications.
Principal Accountabilities
SAFETY
- Adhere to all site safety rules and engage with site management to ensure safe working environments.
- Ensure all operations under your responsibility prioritise safety for visitors, staff, and yourself.
- Assist in daily H&S briefings, toolbox talks, and site inductions as required.
- Provide input to Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) as directed.
- Investigate and report near misses, environmental incidents, and customer complaints promptly (up to Board level).
- Conduct site safety inspections (as agreed) and forward reports to the HSQE Dept timely.
CUSTOMER
- Represent Bethell professionally, maintaining a professional attitude toward clients.
- Keep the site organised, clean, and tidy to project a positive image of the company.
- Align works strictly with client requirements, ensuring compliance through diligent project delivery.
- Record all client communications (e.g., Confirmation of Verbal Instructions (CVIs), Technical Queries (TQs)) in the correct CDE.
PEOPLE
- Cultivate respect among the workforce and motivate high morale.
- Manage site personnel in collaboration with your line manager to drive efficiency and site objectives.
- Coordinate subcontractors, approving their work to meet precise dimensional standards.
- Collaborate closely with the commercial team to document deviations from contract drawings, including sketches/photos, and submit records to the Quantity Surveyor promptly.
- Assist in apprentice/graduate development.
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INTEGRITY
- Conduct regular inspections to maintain quality standards and ensure proper documentation.
- Report and resolve non-compliance issues with senior management promptly.
- Execute timely setting-out work, preventing delays by equipping trades with accurate information.
- Ensure safe handling/storage of surveying instruments and regular calibration/maintenance.
- Collect as-built information and prepare as-constructed drawings as needed.
- Verify key setting-out points for accuracy.
- Produce material take-off quantities, ensuring accurate material requisitions.
- Maintain setting-out records, level books, and field books until project completion.
- Oversee concrete test cube manufacture/storage with full audit trails.
- Develop ITP plans, coordinate hold points, and issue correct documentation.
- Assist in compiling as-built drawings and Health & Safety files.
SUSTAINABLE
- Minimise material wasteage by ensuring work aligns with setting-out requirements.
- Promote recycling/reuse of materials where viable.
- Implement measures to reduce nuisance impact and protect the environment.
- Ensure adherence to Environmental Management measures.
EXCELLENCE
- Set out baselines, offsets, and all necessary reference points to support precise construction.
- Monitor ongoing works to maintain acceptable tolerances per contract drawings.
- Verify material deliveries meet specifications and maintain relevant project Quality Plan data.
- Record works (including sketches/photos) to document progress and compliance.
- Implement agreed quality measures (e.g., pre-pour inspections, dip sheets, drainage data).
- Update drawings and documentation as required for accurate project execution.
- Ensure zero-defect completion through inspections and corrective actions.
- Conduct pre-completion quality inspections.
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Person Specification
Qualifications & Experience
- CSCS accreditation
- SMSTS (5-day accreditation) (preferable)
- Minimum 3-day first aid certification
- Relevant work experience: Excavation, groundworks, concreting, drainage, and highways
- Full clean driving licence
- ONC/HNC/HND/Degree in construction-related fields (preferable)
Skills & Knowledge
- Proficient in construction industry standards across trade disciplines.
- Strong grasp of CDM regulations.
- Skilled in Microsoft Office, internet, and email management.
- Competent in safe working practices and basic H&S requirements.
- Demonstrable leadership, planning, and organisational abilities.
- Ability to compare works with contract drawings.
- Results-driven, analytical, with problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent planner/organiser with strong time management.
- Persuasive communicator with clear written/verbal skills.
- Aligns actions with Company Image and promotes the Bethell brand.
Personal Qualities
- Commitment to safety.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
- Flexible approach.
- Focused on business success.
- Team player.
- Conscientious, trustworthy, open, and reliable.
- Proactive with a continuous-improvement mindset.
- Motivated by results.
- Well-presented.
Contact: Sasha.McDonald@bethell.co.uk | Recruitment@bethell.co.uk
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Skills
Site Safety
Construction Management
Setting Out
Quality Control
Risk Assessment
Communication
Team Leadership
Problem Solving
Planning
Organizational Skills
Microsoft Office
CDM Regulations
Health and Safety
Client Management
Material Management
Environmental Management