Site Engineer- Edinburgh

BDL; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Scotland is seeking a skilled Site Engineer to support the technical delivery of RC frame and groundworks projects. The position requires a qualification in Civil Engineering or a similar field, alongside experience in setting out on concrete frame projects. Responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers and ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards. The role offers attractive benefits such as private healthcare, a car allowance, and 26 days of holiday plus bank holidays.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Healthcare

Car Allowance

Company Pension

Cycle to work scheme

Discounted Gym Membership

Qualifications

• Qualification in Civil Engineering or related field is necessary.
• Experience in managing and mentoring junior engineers is required.
• Proven track record in setting out on concrete frame projects is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support technical delivery of RC frame and groundworks projects.
• Mentor and coach graduate and apprentice engineers.
• Maintain quality control through inspections and documentation.

Skills

CAD software

Surveying techniques

Mentoring

Education

HNC in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or Structural Engineering

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join a highly skilled team delivering projects across the Edinburgh region. As a Site Engineer, you will support the technical delivery of RC frame and groundworks projects. You will have a flair for technical complexity and detail, with a core motivation to engage with, innovate and inspire the teams around you. As an integral part of the operations team, your role will be key to the successful delivery of our projects.

What You Will Be Doing:

Health and Safety, Environment and Sustainability:

• Basic understanding of HSES regulations and good practice and ability to communicate to others
• Participates in delivering project Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability targets

Project And Team Management:

• Mentors/coaches Graduate, Assistant and Apprentice Engineers

Construction Methodology:

• Keeps a site diary, sharing this information with the site team and contributing to knowledge capture, share initiative
• Ability to access and interpret engineering information and effectively communicate with the site team, by way of mark-ups, sketches, calculations, or within their setting out of the works
• Provides feedback to the site team on the performance of all project elements, including materials, contractors and designs

Engineering Information, Design Coordination, And Process:

• Ability to interrogate design information, to determine if the information is suitable to be included in the works, and to write RFIs and TQs to resolve discrepancies within inadequate engineering information.
• Ensures that engineering information being used on site is current and of construction status, updating files as required

Setting Out, Dimensional Control:

• Provides dimensional control for an area of the works, ensuring that surveying instrumentation used is within calibration.
• Produces as built surveying compliance checks for an area of the works, ensuring the results are presented in a format suitable to be included in the project records.
• Establishes and maintains control from primary control, carrying out checks to the control provided by others and communicating control information to the team
• Able to manage the survey equipment being used on the project

Quality Management:

• Assists in delivery of Quality Plan and Assurance targets relevant to the project
• Carries out site quality inspections, resolving minor Quality issues as raised by Clients team or self and records on appropriate
• Quality Plan documentation and files for retrieval
• Able to interpret specification requirements, produce and work to ITPs
• Produces, maintains and closes out Permits to Work to the project requirements

Procurement Of Materials And Plant, Logistics:

• Provides quantity information and carries out material call offs and requisitions, measurement of material usage/reconciliation
• Assists with logistics planning and scheduling Temporary Works
• Assists the TWC with TW inspections by taking on duty of TW inspector/supervisor
• Checks and communicates that all TW within work area have been applied to the TW procedure Programme, Scope of Works, Commercial: - Commercially aware, and raises possible variations and changes with Senior or Commercial team members prior to construction - Works to site and contract program

What You Will Bring:

• You will possess a qualification in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or Structural Engineering to HNC level or above
• A track record of delivering setting out and engineering processes on concrete frame projects.
• Ability to use CAD software for data transfer to/from single person working kit EDM preferable
• Highly competent in surveying and setting out techniques and able to teach others.
• Experience in managing and mentoring Graduate and Apprentice engineers

Benefits

• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Car Allowance
• Company Pension
• Volunteering Days - With Careys Foundation - or other organisations that are important to you
• Health Care Cashplan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car Leasing Scheme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Life Assurance
• Buy/sell holidays
• Other discounts and Cashback plans

About Carey Group

Our story starts in 1969 with three brothers and a van. John, Tom and Pat Carey moved to London from Ireland and started a groundworks contracting company in London called PJ Carey Plant Hire (Oval) Ltd. Their aspirations at the time were reflective of the values of the Carey Group today – to care about everything they did, to act with humility in all interactions, to be passionate about their work and be authentic at all times. The Carey Group remains a family‑owned construction business, operating across the UK and Ireland. Throughout the years, we have remained committed to delivering on our promises, respecting our clients, offering innovative solutions and producing the highest‑quality work in safe environments. These are the core principles set by our Founders, the ones we have never wavered from and they help us to fulfil our ultimate vision to be the most trusted and socially responsible construction company, that people are proud to work with.