Contracts Engineer - (Sub Agent) - Warrington

BALFOUR BEATTY; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A respected specialist contractor is seeking a Contracts Engineer (Sub Agent) in Warrington. This hands-on role involves managing projects from inception to completion, ensuring compliance with safety and engineering standards. Candidates should have a degree in Civil Engineering and proven experience in structural repair projects. The position offers opportunities for professional development within a leading infrastructure business and requires strong leadership and communication skills.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Focus on safety and innovation

Challenging and rewarding projects

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering structural repair projects.
• Experience working on concrete and infrastructure structures.
• Contract management and compliance skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects from site set-up through to completion.
• Lead and coordinate site teams and subcontractors.
• Ensure works are delivered in line with contract specifications.
• Maintain accurate construction records.

Skills

Structural repair knowledge

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Job description

About the role

Job Title: Contracts Engineer (Sub Agent)

Location: Warrington (office & site-based)

Company: Balvac

Are you an experienced Contracts Engineer / Sub Agent with a passion for delivering complex structural repair and infrastructure projects safely and efficiently? Join Balvac, Balfour Beatty’s specialist structural repair and strengthening business, and play a key role in delivering high-profile schemes across the UK.

As a Contracts Engineer (Sub Agent), you’ll be responsible for the successful delivery of Balvac schemes of varying size and complexity, working closely with Contracts Managers, Project Managers and site teams. This is a hands-on role combining engineering excellence, leadership and a strong safety culture.

You’ll be based out of Warrington, with a mix of office and site presence depending on project needs.

What you\'ll be doing

• Manage Balvac projects from site set-up through to completion
• Lead and coordinate site teams and subcontractors
• Ensure works are delivered in line with contract drawings, specifications and project plans
• Manage site dimensional control and setting-out activities
• Produce, review and implement:
  • Construction Method Statements
  • Risk Assessments
  • PMP, ITPs, Construction Phase Plans and associated documentation
• Develop and manage programmes, monitoring progress and productivity
• Ensure strict compliance with Health, Safety & Environmental legislation
• Champion Behavioural Safety and Zero Harm on site
• Anticipate and resolve engineering and delivery challenges
• Maintain accurate construction records, as-built drawings and O&M manuals
• Build strong relationships with clients, suppliers and internal stakeholders

You will have the following

• Degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Proven experience delivering structural repair or specialist repair projects
• Experience working on concrete and infrastructure structures
• Strong technical knowledge of structural repair techniques
• Confident managing multiple teams, schemes and costs simultaneously
• Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a commitment to excellence

You’ll naturally demonstrate

• Results-Driven delivery and ownership
• Operational Excellence through planning and organisation
• Customer Focus with a collaborative approach
• Adaptability in fast-moving project environments
• An uncompromising commitment to Zero Harm

Why Join Balvac?

• Be part of a respected specialist contractor within the Balfour Beatty Group
• Work on technically challenging and rewarding projects
• Strong focus on safety, innovation and engineering excellence
• Opportunities for career development within a leading UK infrastructure business

If you’re ready to lead with impact and deliver excellence on some of the UK’s most interesting infrastructure and structural engineering projects, we’d love to hear from you.

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We\'re proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

For further information about Balfour Beatty please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers

You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.

Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/