Lead Section Engineer – Highways Delivery

Balfour Beatty plc; Grays; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share plans

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is recruiting for a Section Engineer to lead setting out and engineering activities on a major Lower Thames Crossing project. This hands-on, site-based role requires translating plans into safe, high-quality delivery across a defined section of works.

You will coach junior engineers, manage quality records, and ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards while tracking progress against KPIs and programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience carrying out complex setting out on civil engineering projects.
• Knowledge of Activity Control Plans and quality records.
• Awareness of health, safety and environmental requirements.
• Ability to use programme information to plan and monitor progress.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of contract documents.
• Strong communication and collaborative working skills.
• Commitment to delivering work safely, right first time, and to programme.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out complex setting out and establishing primary control, ensuring works are delivered accurately and in line with project requirements.
• Coaching and supporting junior engineers and site colleagues in setting out techniques and engineering best practice.
• Producing Activity Control Plans, maintaining quality records and using specifications and contract documents as key reference points.
• Identifying, raising and progressing Non-Conformance Reports and Technical Queries, offering practical solutions where required.
• Preparing Method Statements, Risk Assessments and Temporary Works Briefs, while actively promoting safe systems of work.
• Supporting site inductions, accident reporting and proactive hazard identification to help maintain high health, safety and environmental standards.
• Producing weekly programmes, communicating targets to the workforce and measuring progress against agreed KPIs.
• Collating weekly measure information, monitoring wastage, completing labour and plant reconciliations and identifying additional works for notification.

Skills

Complex setting out

Quality awareness

Health and safety awareness

Programme management

Commercial awareness

Strong communication

Job description

Balfour Beatty plc is recruiting for a Section Engineer to lead setting out and engineering activities on a major Lower Thames Crossing project. This hands-on, site-based role requires translating plans into safe, high-quality delivery across a defined section of works.

You will coach junior engineers, manage quality records, and ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards while tracking progress against KPIs and programmes.