Section Engineer - Stockton-On-Tees

BALFOUR BEATTY; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Section Engineer to drive engineering excellence on major highways schemes across the North East. You will own setting out, coordinate site activities, manage technical compliance and support project teams to hit programme and performance targets.

This role offers the chance to contribute to high-profile infrastructure projects within a leading UK contractor, with development opportunities in a collaborative, safety-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with permit-to-work systems and site safety controls.
• Experience coordinating site activities to meet programme milestones.
• Strong communication and teamwork across delivery, commercial and project teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading complex setting out activities across highways and civil works.
• Establishing and maintaining primary setting out control and verification points.
• Coaching and supporting Site Engineers and junior team members.
• Producing and managing Activity Control Plans to meet quality requirements.
• Using project specifications and drawings to ensure compliance.
• Maintaining quality records and inspections.

Skills

Permit-to-work

Health & safety

Site coordination

Construction programmes

Subcontractor management

Highways experience

Job description

About the role

Working within a highly experienced and collaborative team, you'll be responsible for driving engineering excellence on site, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. Regional Civils is proud to deliver vital infrastructure that improves connectivity and leaves a lasting legacy for local communities, offering the opportunity to work on challenging projects while developing your career with one of the UK's leading infrastructure businesses.

As a Section Engineer, you'll take ownership of key elements of project delivery, coordinating site activities, managing technical compliance, and supporting project teams to achieve programme and performance objectives. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious engineer looking to take the next step in their career while contributing to the successful delivery of major highways schemes throughout the North East.

What you'll be doing

• Leading complex setting out activities across highways and civil engineering works, ensuring all work is delivered to the required specifications and tolerances.
• Establishing and maintaining primary setting out control, selecting optimal locations for installation and verification of engineering control points.
• Coaching and supporting Site Engineers and junior team members in setting out techniques and engineering best practice.
• Producing and managing Activity Control Plans to ensure works are delivered in line with project quality requirements.
• Using project specifications, drawings, and technical documentation to ensure compliance throughout delivery.
• Maintaining accurate and comprehensive quality records, ensuring all inspections and documentation are completed and stored correctly.
• Identifying, raising, and closing out Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) and Technical Queries (TQs), providing practical engineering solutions where required.
• Producing Method Statements and Risk Assessments (MSRAs) to support the safe execution of project activities.
• Preparing and raising Temporary Works Briefs and coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure safe implementation.
• Delivering visitor inductions and promoting a strong health, safety, and environmental culture across site operations.
• Supporting incident reporting requirements, including completing accident reports and associated documentation when required.
• Producing weekly programmes and monitoring progress against project milestones and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Communicating work plans, targets, and priorities to site teams to ensure safe and efficient delivery.
• Collating weekly measurement data and monitoring productivity, materials usage, and wastage against budget allowances and project KPIs.
• Completing labour and plant reconciliations to support accurate project controls and reporting.
• Identifying additional works, variations, and change requirements, ensuring the appropriate commercial notifications are raised.
• Managing and coordinating subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring works are delivered in line with agreed specifications, outputs, and contractual requirements.
• Supporting the successful delivery of major highways and infrastructure projects by providing technical leadership, quality assurance, and engineering expertise throughout the construction lifecycle.

Who we're looking for

• Experience working within a robust permit-to-work system, with the ability to raise, manage, and comply with permits for site activities.
• Strong awareness of health, safety and environmental requirements, with a proactive approach to identifying hazards and implementing effective control measures.
• Demonstrable experience promoting a positive safety culture and ensuring safe systems of work are followed on site.
• Ability to interpret and utilise information contained within short and medium-term construction programmes, including 13-week stage programmes.
• Experience coordinating site activities to ensure works are delivered in line with programme milestones and productivity targets.
• Good understanding of construction contracts and key project documentation, with the ability to work within contractual requirements.
• Experience working with subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring works are delivered in line with agreed specifications, outputs, and performance expectations.
• Strong commercial awareness, with an understanding of how programme performance, resource utilisation, and subcontractor management contribute to successful project delivery.
• Previous experience within highways, civil engineering, or major infrastructure projects, working in a Section Engineer, Site Engineer, or similar role.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across delivery, commercial, and project teams.

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?

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

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

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]