Project Engineer- West Cumbria

BDL; Newby West; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Company car/allowance

Private healthcare

Pension plan

25 days holiday

Professional development

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Careys Civil Engineering is seeking a Project Engineer to deliver complex civil projects in West Cumbria. You will lead a technical team, drive safety, quality, and commercial performance, and collaborate with managers, subcontractors and clients to achieve project goals.

You will ensure contract compliance, manage setting-out, budgets and design information, and uphold high engineering standards across the project lifecycle. Strong leadership and communication are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Strong technical engineering background within civil engineering projects.
• Experience leading engineering teams and overseeing Senior Engineers.
• Proven ability to manage design processes, temporary works and quality systems.
• Strong commercial awareness including cost monitoring and contractual understanding.
• Ability to manage complex programmes, procurement processes and material controls.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure technical compliance with the contract and liaise with third parties on technical matters.
• Monitor events affecting progress including delays, variations and risks.
• Contribute to commercial systems, cost monitoring, and claims/dispute understanding.
• Resolve project setting-out issues and ensure specification compliance.
• Oversee engineering budgets, control systems, and as-built information accuracy.
• Maintain strong engineering standards and provide technical guidance to the site team.
• Maintain efficient communication with designers and clients.
• Ensure buildability, value engineering, and statutory requirements are incorporated.
• Manage and review design information to support construction needs.
• Fulfil environmental obligations and interpret project environmental reports.
• Take overall responsibility for site quality systems, inspections and testing regimes.
• Oversee NCR resolution and ensure robust quality controls are in place.
• Provide clear leadership, guidance and support to engineers.
• Manage competency, performance, and development of the engineering team.
• Drive innovation, technical excellence, and continual improvement across the project.
• Approve and monitor material suitability, testing and interactions.
• Prepare and monitor complex programmes, procurement activities and productivity systems.
• Analyse wastage reports and identify efficiencies.
• Prepare and approve risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
• Maintain strong knowledge of safety regulations, temporary works, and high-risk operations.
• Act as TWC for high-risk temporary works when required.
• Design low-risk/medium-risk temporary works or produce design briefs.
• Manage component procurement and assess load conditions and technical risks.

Skills

Technical engineering

Team leadership

Design management

Commercial awareness

Procurement

Communication

Job description

Project Engineer- West Cumbria

We’re looking for a Project Engineer who will play a key role in successfully delivering complex civil engineering projects within Careys Civil Engineering. Working closely with our Project and Construction Managers, you will use your technical expertise, leadership capability and commercial awareness to drive operational excellence across the project lifecycle.

You’ll lead and support Senior Engineers and the wider engineering team, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest quality while maintaining strong relationships with subcontractors, consultants, suppliers and wider stakeholders.

Department Engineering Employment Type Permanent - Full Time Location Cumbria Workplace type Onsite

What You Will Be Doing:

Commercial & Contractual

• Ensure technical compliance with the contract and liaise with third parties on technical matters.
• Monitor events affecting progress including delays, variations and risks.
• Contribute to commercial systems, cost monitoring, and claims/dispute understanding.

Setting Out & Technical Accuracy

• Resolve project setting-out issues and ensure specification compliance.
• Oversee engineering budgets, control systems, and as-built information accuracy.
• Maintain strong engineering standards and provide technical guidance to the site team.

Design Management

• Maintain efficient communication with designers and clients.
• Ensure buildability, value engineering, and statutory requirements are incorporated.
• Manage and review design information to support construction needs.

Environmental & Quality Management

• Fulfil environmental obligations and interpret project environmental reports.
• Take overall responsibility for site quality systems, inspections and testing regimes.
• Oversee NCR resolution and ensure robust quality controls are in place.

Management & Leadership

• Provide clear leadership, guidance and support to engineers.
• Manage competency, performance, and development of the engineering team.
• Drive innovation, technical excellence, and continual improvement across the project.

Materials, Procurement & Programme Control

• Approve and monitor material suitability, testing and interactions.
• Prepare and monitor complex programmes, procurement activities and productivity systems.
• Analyse wastage reports and identify efficiencies.

Safety

• Prepare and approve risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
• Maintain strong knowledge of safety regulations, temporary works, and high-risk operations.
• Assess engineer competencies and ensure all activities are safely delivered.

Temporary Works

• Act as TWC for high-risk temporary works when required.
• Design low-risk/medium-risk temporary works or produce design briefs.
• Manage component procurement and assess load conditions and technical risks.

What You Will Bring:

Strong technical engineering background within civil engineering projects.

Experience leading engineering teams and overseeing Senior Engineers.

Proven ability to manage design processes, temporary works and quality systems.

Strong commercial awareness including cost monitoring and contractual understanding.

Ability to manage complex programmes, procurement processes and material controls.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience acting as TWC and designing temporary works.
• Experience in high-risk operations (e.g., ground contamination, major temporary works).
• Knowledge of statutory employment and contract law relevant to site operations.

Benefits:

At Careys, we empower our people to be their best and build careers they’re proud of. As a Project Engineer, you’ll join a supportive, forward‑thinking engineering community where innovation, learning and progression are part of everyday life.

You’ll Benefit From:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• Company car or car allowance
• Private healthcare
• Strong pension contributions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Career development pathways, technical mentoring and professional accreditation support
• Access to a wide range of wellbeing, family and lifestyle benefits

About Carey Group

Our story starts in 1969 with three brothers and a van.

John, Tom and Pat Carey moved to London from Ireland and started a groundworks contracting company in London called PJ Carey Plant Hire (Oval) Ltd.

Their aspirations at the time were reflective of the values of the Carey Group today - to care about everything they did, to act with humility in all interactions, to be passionate about their work and be authentic at all times.

The Carey Group remains a family-owned construction business, operating across the UK and Ireland. Their goal at the time was to grow to around 50 operatives and provide quality, safe work so that they and their employees could provide for their families and get safe home every day. Through hard work and sticking to our values and our word, this was certainly achieved….and some.

Throughout the years, we have remained committed to delivering on our promises, respecting our clients, offering innovative solutions and producing the highest-quality work in safe environments. These are the core principles set by our Founders, the ones we have never wavered from and they help us to fulfil our ultimate vision to be the most trusted and socially responsible construction company, that people are proud to work with.

Our strong approach is underpinned by robust financial management, continuous investment in our people, specialist equipment and strategic assets and our long-standing culture of teamwork - we want to create the very best environments for our people.

We care about our people and our partners and how we work with them, ensuring we do our best by them. Ultimately, we care about our impact on the world around us and the communities that we proudly help to shape.