Site Engineer

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Category: Operations Engineering

Location: London, United Kingdom

Workplace: On-site

Posted:

Contract Type: Permanent

Driving Required: No

Security Clearance Required: No

The primary purpose of a site engineer is to ensure that construction projects are completed accurately and safely. They provide technical advice, manage staff on-site, and ensure compliance with health and safety standards. Site engineers are responsible for overseeing all on-site activities to ensure they align with the project’s design, specifications, and legal requirements. They also manage daily site activities, solve problems that arise during construction, and help keep the project running smoothly from start to finish.

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Qualifications

Essential

• Civil Engineering related qualification (HNC, HND BSc, MSc, BEng, Meng)
• SMSTS
• First Aid
  

Desirable

• Appointed Person, lifting training is an advantage
• Mental Health First Aid
• Fire Marshalling
  

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Managing site and technology engineers and working closely with all SVD delivery team members
• Ensuring that site surveys and records are provided as required
• Working with project managers, site managers, supervisors and suppliers to coordinate, develop and review safe system compliance and other daily processes.
• Ensure all on site activities are recorded through daily diaries, production control schedules and photographs.

• Reviewing drawings and raising technical queries relating to the design team.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Notable experience delivering infrastructure projects in a site role
• Ability and willingness to guide, mentor and develop junior staff.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
  

Desirable

• Experience in working on a similar project is desirable but not essential.

About the company

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview .

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