Contracts Engineer -UK Wide

Balfour Beatty; Derby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading contractor as a Contracts Engineer, delivering complex infrastructure projects that enhance our nation's assets. Utilize your civil engineering expertise to manage resources, ensure compliance with safety standards, and lead teams in structural repair initiatives. Be part of a diverse workforce committed to innovation and excellence in public infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivery of structural repair or specialist repair projects.
• Ability to organize works and manage multiple teams efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Manage internal resources and subcontractors.
• Ensure works are constructed per contract drawings and specifications.
• Produce and review construction methods statements.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Quality Control

Health, Safety, and Environmental Awareness

Education

Civil Engineering Degree

Job description

About the role

Our projects are more than just opportunities to make your mark; they're chances to stretch, test, and develop your expertise. Join our Balvac team as a Contracts Engineer, where you'll deliver complex work that truly matters to our business and the world around us.

As a trusted expert, Balvac extends the life of our nation's infrastructure by delivering innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection, and maintenance solutions to restore our customer assets to full capacity.

What you'll be doing

As a Contracts Engineer, you will:

• Manage internal resources and subcontractors
• Ensure that works are constructed in accordance with contract drawings, specifications, and the Project Management Plan
• Manage site dimensional control, ensuring contractors have the facilities for setting out the works
• Produce and review construction methods statements to ensure efficient and safe construction
• Produce all site documentation for the delivery of the works, including PMP, PVPMP, ITP, Construction Phase Management Plan, etc.
• Develop and work to programmes, measuring progress and productivity outputs
• Understand and apply procedures from the project Health, Safety, and Environmental plans, promoting a safe working culture

Who we're looking for

You will have the following:

• Civil Engineering Degree or equivalent (preferable)
• Experience in delivery of structural repair or specialist repair projects
• Good QC/QA experience
• Previous experience working on infrastructure schemes involving concrete structures
• Ability to organize works and manage multiple teams efficiently

Why work for us

Our teams deliver remarkable projects in challenging conditions, developing, managing, and maintaining vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies, and communities depend on.

About us

Balvac is a leading contractor specializing in structural repair, strengthening, and refurbishment, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and inclusion, believing that our inclusive culture fosters growth and innovation.

Our core business involves the structural repair, strengthening, protection, and refurbishment of civil and building structures across the UK, including highways, rail infrastructure, power (including nuclear sites), and industrial facilities.

Our capabilities include concrete repair, crack injection, leak sealing, structural strengthening with FRP materials, corrosion and cathodic protection, post-tensioning, and concrete rehabilitation 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. We have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan and are members of organizations like WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and AFBE. We also support applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists, and are a Disability Confident Employer, committed to removing barriers for people with disabilities.