Site Engineer

Qualifications required

• Degree or HNC/HND: A Bachelor's degree (BSC/BEng) in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering
• CSCS Card
• SSSTS
• First Aid
• RC Frame and groundworks experience minimum 4 years of UK site engineering experience, specifically focusing on reinforced concrete frames, foundations, drainage, and groundworks.

Essential Technical Skill

• Setting-Out & Surveying: Proficiency with modern surveying instruments, including Total Stations (Robotic Total Stations) and GPS/GNSS equipment.
• Technical Drawings: Ability to accurately read, interpret, and work from structural, architectural, and civil engineering drawings and rebar bending schedules.
• Quality Assurance (QA) & As-Built Records: Experience managing concrete pours, level checks, line-and-level verifications, and compiling comprehensive as-built documentation.
• Software: Familiarity with AutoCAD or similar digital modeling and drafting tools for drawing checks and technical queries (RFIs).
• Health & Safety: Strong working knowledge of site safety regulations, risk assessments, and method statements (RAMS).

Core responsibilities

• Setting Out & Surveying: Establishing accurate lines, levels, and datums for foundations, columns, walls, and slabs using total stations and GNSS equipment.
• Reinforcement Inspections: Checking steel bar sizes, spacing, lap lengths, anchorage, couplers, and concrete cover against structural drawings before a pour.
• Formwork & Temporary Works: Inspecting formwork alignment, stability, cast-in items, and construction joints.
• Quality Assurance (QA) & Testing: Overseeing concrete grade compliance, slump/cube testing, and maintaining Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs).
• Pour Supervision: Monitoring concrete placement, compaction, finishing, and curing protocols.
• Coordination & Documentation: Liaising with site managers, structural designers, and subcontractors to resolve technical queries (RFQs/RIs) and maintain as-built records.

Rate negotiable on experience