Site Engineer - Glasgow

Careys; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Pension

26 Days Holiday

Healthcare benefits

Car allowance

Gym Membership

Holiday Trading

Personal Development opportunities

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Site Engineer in Glasgow. This role includes supporting RC frame and groundworks projects, ensuring quality management, and mentoring junior engineers. Candidates should hold an HNC in Civil Engineering or related fields and have a strong background in construction methodologies. Benefits include a competitive salary, company pension, 26 days of holiday, and various employee perks.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable ability in setting out and engineering processes.
• Experience in mentoring Graduate and Apprentice engineers.
• Knowledge of HSES regulations and practices.

Responsibilities

• Support the technical delivery of RC frame and groundworks projects.
• Mentor Graduate, Assistant, and Apprentice Engineers.
• Ensure quality and safety compliance on-site.

Skills

Health and Safety knowledge

Construction Methodology

Engineering Information interrogation

Setting out techniques

Quality Management

Procurement experience

Education

HNC in Civil Engineering or Construction Management

Tools

CAD software

Job description

Overview

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We have an exciting opportunity for you to join a highly skilled team delivering several new projects across the Glasgow region. As a Site Engineer, you will support the technical delivery of these 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. Careys Engineers work as part of a team interpreting engineering information and conveying this to the workforce, to ensure delivery of the project to programme and budget.

Department: Engineering

Location: Glasgow Area

Key Responsibilities

• 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, 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 Client's 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, and Temporary Works: Provides quantity information and carries out material call offs and requisitions, measurement of material usage/reconciliation. Assists with logistics planning and scheduling. Assists the Temporary Works Co-ordinator (TWC) with TW inspections by taking on duty of TW inspector/supervisor. Checks and communicates that all TW within the work area have been applied to the TW procedure. Programme, Scope of Works, Commercial: works to site and contract program with awareness of commercial implications and potential variations.
• Skills, Knowledge and Expertise: Possess a qualification in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or Structural Engineering to HNC level or above. 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

• Company Pension
• 26 Days Holiday plus holiday entitlement
• Excellent salary and benefits, including pension, healthcare, and car allowance
• Optional Benefits via My Perks: Dining Card, Gym Membership, Cycle to Work, Holiday Trading (buy or sell up to 4 days), Health Cash Plan, Dental and Critical Illness Insurance, Partner Life Assurance, Car Leasing and Discounts & Cashback
• You’ll be joining a brilliant team who are lots of fun, have a wealth of knowledge to learn from, and will always keep you challenged
• Personal Development including an ICE Development Programme

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Construction

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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