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Balfour Beatty plc

Site Engineer

Manchester
Posted about 16 hours ago
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About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a Site Engineer to join our team on the Highways A57 Mottram Moor Link Road Scheme, this role will be based within the Manchester / Longdendale area

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you'll be doing

Core:

  • Live the Balfour Beatty Values
  • Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
  • Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities

Health Safety & Environmental:

  • Production of Task Briefing Sheets
  • Contribution to production of Permit to Dig, including briefing to the workforce
  • Carries out associated briefings
  • Carries out Safety Inspections
  • Hazard Identification and contribution to development of Safe System of Work

Engineering Control:

  • Setting out from primary control provided by others
  • The provision of sketches detailing the setting out information installed
  • Maintain survey equipment including registers of equipment and testing regimes
  • Read and determine information from drawings, schedules and specification
  • Use and Navigate the design model using Navisworks

Quality:

  • Production of as-built drawings & records for every element of the works involved in
  • Completion of Quality Check Sheets and production of information for Handover Documentation in a timely manner in line with program and Inspection Test plans
  • Maintaining accurate records – Daily Diary, photographs, records of site discussions

Productivity:

  • Measures actual materials used and reconciles with theoretical measure, reporting and investigating reasons for differences
  • Works to Weekly Programme (drafted by others) and marks up progress achieved weekly
  • Contributes to collection of data for Key Performance Indicators, including reasons for difference

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Commercial:

  • Production of accurate daily diary of resources, including labour, plant, materials, subcontractors and outputs
  • Produces weekly measure. Take offs and schedules materials accurately, producing accurate and clear requisitions, following through to delivery
  • Understands what is classified as additional work and understands how to record this
  • Familiar with actual resourcing levels versus budget and reporting of reasons for difference

Who we're looking for

Core:

The following qualities/experience are essential:

  • 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
  • Able to work on own initiative and seek out opportunities in line with level of responsibility
  • Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card
  • Must be a good team player, with strong communication and interpersonal skills

Health Safety & Environmental:

  • Understands Permit to Dig System
  • Environmental awareness

Engineering Control

  • Setting out techniques – ability to use level & EDM, plus GPS
  • Able to report issues with control and information provided

Quality:

  • Reads and understands drawings and schedules
  • Understands Activity Control Plans and production of resultant information for handover file
  • Strong understanding of construction tolerances
  • Awareness and use of Specification and other Contract documents
  • Able to produce detailed documentation for handover of completed works

Productivity:

  • Able to take off and schedule material quantities accurately

Commercial:

  • Knowledge of specification and contract documents
  • Understands what constitutes additional works

The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable:

  • Leadership skills developing
  • Targeting and actively progressing professional accreditation (eg ICE, IHT)

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 Wasnt Rewarding Enough, We Offer a Full Range Of Benefits Too. You'll Have The Freedom To Shape The Package Thats Right For You And Your Life. Here Are Some Of Our Key Benefits:

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  • 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

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook 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 added 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: How to sign up to the Disability Confident employer scheme - 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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Skills

Setting out
Navisworks
GPS
EDM
As-built drawings
Task Briefing Sheets
Permit to Dig
Material take-offs
Construction tolerances
Site inspections
Hazard identification
Resource recording
Interpersonal skills
Communication
Project scheduling
Quality control

Location

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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