Site Engineer

AmcoGiffe; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a reputable engineering contractor as a Site Engineer, focusing on civil engineering projects within the rail sector. Your role involves ensuring safety standards, managing site works, and delivering diverse technical projects. Ideal candidates will possess a Civil Engineering degree and relevant experience.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Life insurance

Health Cash Plan

Personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Site Engineer.
• Setting-out expertise within civil engineering projects.
• Experience in planning and delivering site works.

Responsibilities

• Oversee site safety and quality standards.
• Review project drawings and specifications.
• Manage weekly planning of site-based activities.

Skills

Site Safety

Setting out

Planning

Education

Degree/HNC/HND in Civil Engineering

PTS certification

Job description

This is a Permanent , Full Time vacancy that will close in a month at 23:59 BST .

The Vacancy

Site Engineer
Rail / Civil Engineering

Region: Eastern

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Site Engineer, with expertise in heavy civils, bridges, and structures, to join our team in the Eastern region. The role supports the delivery of a diverse portfolio of projects related to MMLE (Midland Mainline Electrification), including bridge reconstructions, demolitions, drainage, minor civils, and other civil engineering works as required by the region.

Business Unit
Our busy and fast-paced business unit is involved in a range of civil engineering projects linked to Network Rail infrastructure, such as bridge refurbishment and renewal, embankments, and station works. The team manages multi-disciplinary rail civils projects across the CP6 LNE route, varying in scale and complexity, often presenting technical challenges.

Current contracts within the CP6 infrastructure projects framework include schemes such as bridge reconstruction/replacement, upgrades, refurbishments, station works (including platforms, Access for All schemes, and footbridge installations), and platform extensions.

The Role
As a Site Engineer, you will report to the Project Manager or Site Agent and will be responsible for the weekly planning and delivery of site-based activities.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring Site Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality standards are maintained for all activities
• Reviewing and interpreting project drawings and specifications for site-based engineering work
• Setting out and surveying on site
• Ensuring site engineering activities are carried out professionally, systematically, and accurately
• Supervising site works, including managing labour, plant, and subcontractors
• Maintaining accurate records, including daily diaries of site activities
• Estimating and ordering materials
• Planning daily and weekly site activities, assisting with the production of Risk Assessments, Work Package Plans, Inspection Test Plans, and related documentation
• Managing subcontractors and site engineers as required

Requirements
To succeed in this role, you will have previous experience as a Site Engineer with setting-out expertise, ideally within civil engineering projects or multi-disciplinary projects in the rail sector.

Qualifications:

• Degree/HNC/HND in Civil Engineering
• PTS certification

Experience:

• Setting out experience
• Experience in weekly planning and delivery of site works, including producing and reviewing Inspection Test Plans, Work Package Plans, and Task Briefs
• Desirable: Progressing towards professional qualifications such as CEng or MAPM

What We Offer:

• Competitive annual salary, negotiable based on experience
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (with increases over time)
• Up to 3 volunteer days annually
• Company contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Westfield Health Cash Plan & Rewards
• Opportunities for personal and professional development within a supportive environment
• Ongoing learning and career growth pathways
• A safe and inclusive workplace
• Employee forums and channels for your voice to be heard

The Company

Why AmcoGiffen?
You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen
We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.

We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.

Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

Health & Wellbeing
Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.

Is AmcoGiffen your next career challenge? If so, apply now!

For more information or to arrange a private and confidential discussion about AmcoGiffen career opportunities, please contact our Recruitment Team:

We offer excellent career prospects, a competitive salary, and outstanding training development and support opportunities. You can expect to receive a range of benefits (role dependent) including: