About the role
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering as a Site Engineer on the Sizewell C project and you’ll be part of one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure programmes.
Working within the Geotechnical Sub-Alliance (GSA), you will help deliver complex ground engineering works that prepare the site for the construction of the new nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast. The scope includes major enabling works such as cut-off walls, soil improvement, bearing elements, and retaining structures. Using advanced construction techniques including piling, diaphragm walling, soil mixing, and grouting, the team utilises specialist equipment such as hydrofraises, hydraulic grabs, piling rigs, and soil mixing plants to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality results within a collaborative alliance environment.
As a Site Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day delivery of ground engineering workfronts, ensuring activities are carried out safely, efficiently, and in accordance with programme, quality, and commercial requirements.
What you'll be doing
In this role you will support the planning and management of day-to-day site activities across assigned workfronts, ensuring works are delivered safely and in line with project specifications, drawings, and engineering standards. You will coordinate labour, plant, and materials required for the works while ensuring compliance with Inspection and Test Plans, method statements, permits, and other site documentation.
You will support health and safety initiatives across site by delivering daily briefings and toolbox talks, ensuring teams understand any changes to methods or permits and maintaining accurate attendance and action records. The role will also involve contributing to incident investigations and ensuring safe systems of work are implemented and followed.
A key part of the role will involve managing and maintaining quality documentation. You will assist in drafting and implementing Inspection and Test Plans for ground engineering works, arranging inspections and testing activities, raising and managing non-conformance reports, and maintaining marked-up drawings including red-line and as-built records for project handover.
You will support procurement activities by translating operational requirements into specifications, raising orders, managing deliveries, and coordinating plant and material movements on site. This includes assisting with subcontract administration and ensuring resources are available when required to support the construction programme.
Monitoring productivity will also form part of your responsibilities. You will track rig performance and production rates against targets, identify opportunities for improvement, and highlight constraints or delays so that corrective actions can be implemented quickly.
Working closely with the wider project team, you will help maintain short and medium-term look-ahead programmes, supporting the sequencing of works and monitoring progress against key milestones. You will also contribute to delay analysis and support programme updates where required.
The role will involve supporting commercial and contractual processes under the alliance NEC4 contract model. This includes assisting with early warning notices, non-compensation events, and providing inputs for change events and quotations while supporting the project’s cost control processes.
You will also take on leadership responsibilities on site, supervising small teams or apprentices, supporting collaboration across project teams, and helping maintain a proactive and solution-focused working environment.
Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone with experience in site or contracts engineering within the construction or ground engineering sector. You should be confident working with engineering drawings and specifications and capable of coordinating site activities while maintaining accurate technical and quality records.
Strong communication skills are essential, with the ability to engage effectively with site teams, project management, and support functions across safety, quality, procurement, and commercial disciplines. You should also be comfortable managing competing priorities and supporting the delivery of multiple workfronts within a dynamic project environment.
Experience working on complex civil engineering or ground engineering projects would be beneficial, particularly where methods such as piling, diaphragm walling, soil mixing, or grouting are used. An understanding of NEC contract processes and programme management principles would also be advantageous.
You will ideally hold a degree in Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related discipline, or have equivalent practical experience within the construction industry. A valid CSCS card is required, and additional certifications such as SSSTS or SMSTS would be beneficial.
Due to the nature of major infrastructure projects, occasional weekend or night work may be required, with shift rotations implemented in line with project requirements.
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?
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:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 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 Ground Engineering is one of the UK’s leading specialist geo-technical contractors, providing innovative piling and ground improvement solutions across all sectors.
Our comprehensive ground engineering capabilities, equipment and experience provide the solid foundations for infrastructure and buildings of any height, ranging from city skyscrapers to cross-country rail and road projects.
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
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK17941
