Senior Site Engineer – Nuclear Geotech Lead

Bachy Soletanche; Leiston; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension scheme

Enhanced Sick Pay

Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Professional memberships

Volunteering days

Professional growth and development

Job summary

Bachy Soletanche, working on Sizewell C via the Geotechnical Sub Alliance, seeks a Senior Site Engineer to lead multiple ground‑engineering work fronts. You will own safety, quality, programme and commercial performance on site, providing technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers.

The role requires NEC4 experience, strong leadership, and hands‑on delivery of diaphragm walls and soil‑mixing activities, with responsibility for RAMS, ITPs, EWs/NCEs/CEs, and progress reporting.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years’ experience leading engineering workfronts on construction or infrastructure projects.
• Degree in Civil or Geotechnical Engineering.
• CSCS and SMSTS.
• Strong technical competence in ground engineering, including diaphragm walling and soil mixing.
• Proven experience managing float, critical path, delay analysis and NEC4 processes.
• Experience preparing and managing EWs, NCEs and CEs.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Proficient in project and reporting systems including P6 or MS Project, Excel, AutoCAD and CEMAR.

Responsibilities

• Lead day‑to‑day engineering delivery across multiple workfronts, allocating resources, resolving technical issues, ensuring RAMS, permits and ITPs, and driving close‑out of non‑conformities.
• Provide visible safety leadership, lead investigations and root‑cause analyses, set and approve briefing content, deliver client and stakeholder briefings, and audit briefing quality and records.
• Own the QA approach for D‑Wall and soil‑mixing works, ensure hold‑point compliance, manage NCRs, and provide clear, data‑driven QA reporting.
• Own detailed sequencing and short‑interval planning, manage float and critical path, analyse productivity trends, remove constraints, lead weekly productivity reviews, and support delay analysis.
• Lead preparation of Early Warnings, NCEs and CEs, manage cost and value trends, contribute to forecasting and earned value, define workface procurement strategies, manage subcontractor performance and variations, ensure robust NEC4 compliance within an Alliance (Option 4).
• Coach and mentor engineers, manage performance and difficult conversations up to formal warnings, interface with operations, commercial, procurement, quality and safety teams.

Skills

Leadership

Ground engineering

Project planning

Safety leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Civil or Geotechnical Engineering degree

Tools

P6 / MS Project

Excel

AutoCAD

CEMAR

Job description

Bachy Soletanche, working on Sizewell C via the Geotechnical Sub Alliance, seeks a Senior Site Engineer to lead multiple ground‑engineering work fronts. You will own safety, quality, programme and commercial performance on site, providing technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers.

The role requires NEC4 experience, strong leadership, and hands‑on delivery of diaphragm walls and soil‑mixing activities, with responsibility for RAMS, ITPs, EWs/NCEs/CEs, and progress reporting.