Section Engineer - Lower Thames Crossing

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

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Section Engineer to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17km of complex Highways construction, utility diversions, and a scheme-wide, industry leading approach to carbon reduction. Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play. As a Section Engineer you will take ownership of engineering activities across a defined section of works. This is a hands‑on site‑based role where you’ll help translate plans into safe, high‑quality delivery, supporting the project team with setting out, quality control, health and safety, programme management and commercial awareness.

What you'll be doing

• 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.

Who we’re looking for

• Experience carrying out complex setting out on construction or civil engineering projects.
• Good understanding of quality processes, including Activity Control Plans, construction tolerances, specifications and project records.
• Awareness of health, safety and environmental requirements, with the confidence to identify hazards and implement appropriate controls.
• Ability to use programme information, including short‑term and 13‑week programmes, to plan and monitor progress.
• Commercial awareness, including understanding of key contract documents and subcontractor or supplier requirements.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to give clear direction, liaise with site teams and support a collaborative working environment.
• A practical, organised and solutions‑focused approach, with a commitment to delivering work safely, right first time and to programme.

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?

Benefits

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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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: [e-mail]