Senior Contracts Engineer

Balfour Beatty; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure contractor is seeking a Senior Contracts Engineer based in Leeds. This role involves managing projects from site to completion, ensuring high standards and effective team leadership. The ideal candidate will have a Civil Engineering degree, relevant project experience, and demonstrate strong technical knowledge. Opportunities for growth and professional development within a collaborative team environment are offered. This position promises to be challenging within the field of structural repair.

Benefits

Supportive team culture

Professional development opportunities

Technical and challenging projects

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering structural or specialist concrete repair projects.
• Solid understanding of programme and site performance management.
• Ability to manage multiple teams and workstreams simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Manage Balvac schemes from site through to completion.
• Lead and coordinate site teams and specialist subcontractors.
• Ensure works are delivered in line with contract specifications.
• Develop and work to programmes, monitoring progress.

Skills

Technical knowledge of structural repairs

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Understanding of cost management

Proactive problem-solving

Education

Civil Engineering degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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About the role

Job Title: Senior Contracts Engineer (Sub Agent)

Location: Leeds (Site & Office based)

Company: Balfour Beatty - Balvac

At Balvac, part of Balfour Beatty, we are specialists in structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment of critical infrastructure. We're now looking for a Senior Contracts Engineer to join our growing team, supporting the successful delivery of complex concrete and specialist repair schemes across the North West and beyond.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineer ready to take ownership of projects, lead site teams, and play a key role in delivering safe, high‑quality outcomes for our clients.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Contracts Engineer, you’ll be trusted with the day‑to‑day leadership of Balvac projects, working closely with Contracts Managers, Project Managers and site teams to ensure successful delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing Balvac schemes of varying size and complexity from site through to completion
• Leading and coordinating site teams and specialist subcontractors
• Ensuring works are delivered in line with contract drawings, specifications and Project Management Plans
• Producing and reviewing method statements, risk assessments and construction documentation
• Managing dimensional control, setting‑out and technical delivery on site
• Developing and working to programmes, monitoring progress and productivity
• Driving high standards of Health, Safety & Environmental performance, including behavioural safety
• Managing construction records, as‑built drawings and O&M manuals
• Proactively identifying and resolving engineering and delivery challenges
• Supporting Balvac’s focus on Customer Excellence, Innovation and Quality Delivery

Who we’re looking for

We’re keen to speak to professionals with a strong background in infrastructure and structural repair works who are ready to operate at a senior level.

You’ll ideally have:

• A Civil Engineering degree (or equivalent experience)
• Proven experience delivering structural or specialist concrete repair projects
• Experience working on infrastructure schemes involving concrete structures
• Strong technical knowledge of structural repairs and construction methodologiesThe ability to manage multiple teams and workstreams simultaneously
• Solid understanding of cost, programme and site performance management
• A proactive, confident leadership style with excellent communication skills
• A strong commitment to Zero Harm and high safety standards

Why join Balvac?

• Work on technically challenging, high‑profile infrastructure projects
• Be part of a respected specialist contractor within Balfour Beatty
• Real autonomy and responsibility on your schemes
• Clear opportunities for progression and professional development
• Supportive, collaborative team culture focused on excellence and safety

Location & working style

• Based from Warrington, with a mix of site and office working
• Projects primarily across the North West, with some wider UK travel as required

If you’re a Senior Engineer or Sub Agent looking to step into a Senior Contracts Engineer role within a specialist, market‑leading business, we’d love to hear from you.

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We’re proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

For further information about Balfour Beatty please go to

www.balfourbeatty.com/careers

You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.

Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment 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, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/