Senior Site Engineer

MWH Treatment; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water sector contractor in the UK is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead the Site Engineering team on large-scale projects. Responsibilities include managing engineering activities, ensuring quality control, and overseeing safety protocols. Candidates must have strong leadership skills, relevant qualifications, and experience in construction projects. This role offers a competitive salary and hybrid working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid Working (job needs dependent)

Car/car allowance

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Contribution Pension scheme

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience leading a Site Engineering team, working on various projects.
• Strong client service focus and excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task.
• Understanding of supply chain expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Site Engineering team in setting out and dimensional control.
• Ensure the drawing register is managed, updated, and maintained.
• Manage Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational skills

Client service focus

Knowledge of CDM and Health & Safety

Experience in construction projects

Education

SMSTS or IOSH Qualified

Temporary Works Coordinator

CPCS Qualified for Lifting Operations

Job description

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About The Role

MWH have now been awarded Projects at Dukinfield, Aston-Under-Lyne, Arnfield, Godley, Hyde and Wigan and Skelmersdale across the AMP8 Framework Agreement with United Utilities. We are looking to strengthen our Construction and Project delivery teams with Senior Engineers assigned to a project or section within our programme of work.

Reporting to the Project Manager, you will lead the Site Engineering team on a large-scale project

Fully responsible for all Site Engineering, Temporary works, lifting operations and Quality Control.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Site Engineering team in setting out and dimensional control. Equipment management and calibration, weekly, monthly instrument checks.
• Ensure the drawing register is managed, updated, and maintained.
• Ensure as built survey records and drawings are managed and maintained.
• Manage Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• Manage Temporary Works.
• Lead a TW's team, TWC's, TWS's etc.
• Manage lifting operations.
• Lead the lifting team, crane operators, supervisors, banksman etc.
• Manage safe systems of work, RAMS and COSHH assessments.
• Manage review and record progress of short-term lookahead programmes.
• Manage and manage bulk material take off's, place orders and call materials to site.
• Contribute to design and development, constructability, commission, operate and maintain.
• Manage and review site diaries and records.
• Manage subcontractors and suppliers.
• Contribute to risk and opportunity.

About You

Person Specification

Mandatory

• Experience leading a Site Engineering team, working on various projects.
• Strong client service focus and excellent organisational skills with the ability to multi-task.
• An understanding of supply chain expectations
• CDM and Health & Safety knowledge.
• SMSTS or IOSH Qualified.
• Temporary Works Coordinator (suitably Qualified)
• Lifting Operations Appointed Person, (CPCS Qualified)
• Service Coordinator, (suitably Qualified)

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don't just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include -

• A competitive salary
• Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
• Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc