3,334 On Site Engineer jobs in the United Kingdom

• Supporting the DSR Package Leads by providing on-site representation of the design team.
  
• Undertaking inspections and assessments of construction activities at key hold points for RC structural elements and concrete works to ensure compliance with design documentation.
  
• Preparing clear and concise technical reports and inspection/surveillance records.
  
• Attending site meetings, liaising with client representatives, resolving technical issues, and contributing to collaborative solutions.
  
• Monitoring site works to ensure alignment with the relevant safety, environmental and quality standards.
  
• Reviewing contractor proposals to check for alignment with design requirements and specifications.
  
• Coordinate and support responses to Technical Queries (TQs).
  
• Proactively identify and raise any health and safety concerns during site and day-to-day activities.
  

• Degree-qualified or equivalent in Civil or Structural Engineering.
  
• Familiarity with the inspection of reinforcement, including ability to read reinforcement drawings and bending schedules. Willingness to undertake training to develop this competency.
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively on-site with clients and contractors.
  
• A proactive and motivated approach to problem-solving and site-based delivery.
  
• Ideally, prior site experience on major infrastructure or structural projects (desirable but not essential).
  
• Good understanding and awareness of health and safety practices in a construction environment.
  

• Experience working in a DSR or construction inspection role on large civil or structural engineering projects.
  
• Knowledge of relevant industry standards.
  
• Good understanding of the principles of reinforced concrete design and construction, including reinforcement detailing.
  
• Previous experience working in secure or highly regulated environments (e.g., defence, nuclear, MOD sites) is an advantage.
  

• Ability to work full-time on-site within a secure facility.
  
• Eligibility to obtain UK MOD Security Clearance is essential.
  
• Valid CSCS card or ability to obtain one promptly.
  

Our client is a market leader in supplying low carbon technology solutions. They are looking for an electrically bias Site Engineer to join their growing team. The ideal candidate will have the ability to provide a first in class service to our customers in relation to delivering electrical commissioning , servicing and repairs .

Site Engineer

Permanent

£45,000-£50,000

Monday – Friday 08:00-17:00

Scotland

Site Engineer

Job Description

• Commissioning, servicing and maintaining products, including electric boilers, commercial heat pumps, combined heat and power (CHPs), mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, heat interface units and metering.
• Ensuring that installers have carried out the installation correctly.
• Carrying out required works in a safe and professional manner to ensure that the product/s are installed as per manufacturer’s instructions.
• Some fault finding will be required, at times, across the whole product range.
• Coordinating metering set-ups & working on our mechanical ventilation with heat recovery product.
• Assisting our mechanical Gas Safe engineers, as required.
• Generating accurate and timely site reports within our CRM system.
• Participating in manufacturer and in-house CPD training to achieve the industry recognised qualifications required to carry out the role to the highest standards.

Site Engineer

Essential Experience/Skills/Qualifications

• Level 3 electro-technical qualification, Level 3 NVQ or equivalent, AM2.
• Experience of 3-phase commercial/industrial installations.
• A technical aptitude, with an interest in low carbon technologies.

Site Engineer

Company Benefits

• 25 days' annual leave per annum + bank holidays (annual leave increases with service)
• Company Vehicle (Personal Use Available)
• Company Sick Pay & Enhanced family friendly rights (enhanced maternity, paternity)
• Pension (contributions are currently 5% employee, 3% employer)

If you feel you’re a good fit for this position, please click ‘apply’

An opportunity is available for a Site Engineer at Sizewell C, Leiston, Suffolk. To be considered, you will come from a Construction or Civil Engineering background and have been in the role of a Site or Section engineer within a Civil Engineering Highways environment a priority.

As Site Engineer you will support in the delivery of Site Clearance, Drainage & Service Ducts, Earthworks, Pavements, Kerbs & Footways, Street Lighting and various other civil engineering elements, ensuring works are constructed in accordance with the contract drawings and specifications. The Site Engineer will undertake setting out and as-built surveys and manage quality check sheets / ITPs and onsite inspections.

Duties to include but not limited to:

Experience/Knowledge:

• Experience in Civil Engineering, with good technical knowledge of RC structures
• Knowledge of RC works, formwork, working in high profile, Tier 1 environment with attention to health, safety, environment and quality
• Knowledge of reinforced concrete structures desirable
• Experienced and proficient with Trimble or Leica EDMs & Laser Level
• Accurate setting out duties on site using relevant surveying equipment
• Surveys and collation of as-built information

Skills:

• Skilled in the use of a variety of setting out instruments. Confident in understanding reinforcement drawings and BBS
• Computer literate including MS Office, AutoCad and cloud based systems
• Good communication and people skills. Able to work under own initiative
• Proficient in setting out and surveying
• Ability to speak up on HSEQ matters and lead by example
• Ability to demonstrate the right behaviours and work both independently and as part of a team

Qualifications:

• Degree/HNC in Civil Engineering, or equivalent
• CSCS - (White PQP)
• Desirable / working towards, but not essential: IOSH Managing Safely, SMSTS, SSSTS, First Aider, Fire Marshall, IPAF (for MEWPs), Fit for work medical (or safety critical medical), TWS desirable

Design & Design Assurance

• Permanent Design – Familiarising yourself with the design drawings, specifications and setting out requirements and ensure accurate construction in accordance with requirements
• TQs – Highlight issues and raise queries to the appropriate line manager

Quality Management

• ITPs – Checking the process is being followed
• QA Records – assisting with keeping organised and accurate QA records – checksheets and inspection records
• NCRs & Defects – Assisting with documenting, tracking and closing out
• Quality Readiness Reviews – assisting in Lessons Learnt/Improvements

Midlands principal build contractor are looking for a freelance Senior/Site Engineer for a 40 week duration for a new build distribution centre commencing end October. Reporting to the senior management team you role and responsibility will be to manage and supervise various subcontractor packages inc QA management for groundworks, steelframe, cladding, brickwork etc. Along with the Project/Site Managers you will also be responsible for assisting in any design changes during any client/subcontractor progress meetings, other duties will also include H&S management, material requisition as well as some elements of setting out.

CSCS Card, SMSTS and First Aid certificates will be a mandatory requirement as well as a proven track record working for principal build contractors delivering distribution/industrial units from inception through to completion

Key role objective

The principal function of this position is to serve as the lead WJ representative based at Sizewell C (SZC) in Suffolk, overseeing the delivery and coordination of multiple long-term water management projects secured for the next 10-12 years.

The role requires exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex and occasionally sensitive information effectively to stakeholders at all levels within the SZC team and its Contractors.

Benefits

• Company vehicle (available for personal use) with a monthly rental value
• Pension: Automatically enrolled into the WJ Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme. Contributions are made at 5% for both employee (minimum) and employer (maximum).
• Private Healthcare: At six months of service, Automatically enrolled into Westfield Health Cash Plan for Specialist Consultations & Diagnostics, Scanning Service (MRI, CT & PET Scans), Optical, Dental, Chiropody and Therapy Treatments (Physiotherapy, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Homeopathy and Osteopathy)
• Profit Related Bonus: A profit related annual bonus will be payable in December if WJ meets its profit targets
• Group Life Insurance: Automatically included in the WJ Death in Service Group Insurance at 3 times salary after 6-month probation period
• Gym Membership: Exclusive, discounted access to thousands of gyms, pools and spas with just one pass via our fitness partner, Hussle

Reports to

Senior Project Manager (Line Manager). The Senior PM will be on site at SZC circa 1 day per week or as required to attend key meetings and check on site progress.

Key relationships

Operations Manager and their Drilling & Yard Managers and Project Managers, HR Manager and their admin support team, UK Managing Director and WJ Group Chief Operations Officer (Coaching & Mentorship)

Key areas of responsibility

Oversee project engineering and on-site supervision activities.

• Including drilling, pumping tests, Instrumentation, monitoring, water treatment, and water management systems (groundwater & surface water).
• Liaise effectively with clients site teams, supervisors, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure smooth project execution.
• Maintain high-quality documentation of WJ’s contractual activities including accurate collection, collation, and presentation of data.
• Support the Senior Project Manager with project delivery, including drafting progress reports and contributing to team meetings.
• Prepare Method Statements and Risk Assessments, working drawings and procedures.
• Brief site teams, and specialist subcontractors to ensure clear understanding of scope and requirements.
• Assist Senior Project Manager with project programme administration, helping ensure project milestones are achieved.
• Support the Senior Project Manager in preparing, issuing,and negotiating monthly payment applications.
• Collect, collate, analyse and present monitoring data from active projects
• Assist with business development through site walkovers, client engagement, information gathering, assessing client’s requirements, and support in tendering and bid preparation.
• Ensuring adherence to Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) standards promote a strong on-site safety culture.
• Liaise with auditors and oversee implementation of corrective actions

The above is not exhaustive and you will be expected to undertake any other duties which may reasonably fall within your level of responsibility and competence. The board of WJ Groundwater Limited is committed to the implementation and certification of an Integrated Management System to ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001.

• Assist in the development of the Integrated Management System
• Administer IMS procedures and ensure objectives and targets are met.
• Liaise with the company auditors and ensure execution of corrective actions.
• Collaborate across UK business units-including Accounts, HR, SHE, design/technical, sales/marketing, drilling, monitoring and environmental services to build strong cross-functional relationships and support financial objectives.

Qualifications & Experience

A motivated and hardworking individual with good written and communication skills is essential.

• Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience supervising projects and site teams within the construction industry, or demonstable equivalent experience
• Holds valid CSCS card
• Solid understanding of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology or Civil Engineering principles.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently in challenging site environments.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage personal and team workloads effectively
• Proven experience in managing and coordinating others on-site
• Commercial awareness, ideally with working knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 construction industry contracts
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and AutoCAD
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex or sensitive information clearly and confidently is an essential requirement
• Flexible and proactive, with strong problem-solving abilities
• Full UK Driving License

Working Conditions

This site based role at Sizewell C, in Suffolk involves working alongside WJ colleagues and clients to install, commission, operate, and maintain water management systems across the Main and Temporary Construction Area (MCA and TCA).

Activities on site are carried out in dynamic outdoor environments, including busy construction zones, excavations, tunnels, adits and shafts with strict adherence to safety, health & environmental (SHE) regulations.

Site Engineer

Location – Plymouth

We are seeking an experienced Site Engineer to assist the Engineer in managing the technical compliance of the project to the design specification in order to fulfil the assigned project (or section) safely, on time and to the required quality. Due to the site being a high Security Military Naval base, additional security checks will need to be made – BPSS level of security clearance is required. These checks can take up to 8 weeks to process. Only candidates holding EU, NATO, 5 Eyes, or MISWG member passports and have been a UK residence for the last 5 years can be considered for this role.

As a Site Engineer, you will be responsible for the following:

• Assist in the preparation of 'as-built drawings'.
• Assist in establishing effective systems to record work completed updating the Project Quality Plan accordingly.
• To assist in managing systems to enable the progress of work to be reviewed against time, quality, dimensions, and quantity.
• Assist in the recording and testing of workmanship and materials, i.e., drainage,concrete, piling, brickwork etc.
• Assist in providing engineering support to ensure technical problems are overcome and technical queries are answered.
• Responsible for setting out works constructed within allowable tolerances.
• Regularly checking the setting out points and benchmarks and checking that all setting out instruments and measuring equipment are delivered to site with a calibration certificate and recorded accordingly.
• Completing Daily Diaries.
• Ensures workforce understand setting out information has been identified as suitable for the type of work being carried out.
• Assist in the preparation of sketches for distribution on site, ensuring clear communication channels are in place for effective understanding.
• To be aware of the provisions of the Kier Safety, Health, and Environmental Management System and to assist in its implementation to ensure a safe working environment.
• Responsible for providing and maintaining setting out and dimensional control, to ensure accurate construction of the work.
• Record instructions.
• Maintain drawing register.

Skills Required

• Degree qualification in civil engineering or equivalent is desirable – one or more of: BSc, BA, BEng, Meng, Eng, Tech, MICE, TIStructE, LCIBSE, LCIBSEEng Tech,
• Completion of Higher Apprenticeship.
• May be working towards Chartership/Incorporation with IStructE, ICE or other appropriate professional body.
• Familiar in Leica Survey equipment (GPS, Total Station, Optical & digital levels) for
• Setting Out & Survey
• Experience in similar role.
• Awareness of commercial processes.
• Familiar with Quality Management System and familiar in writing RAMS.
• Proven people and project management skills.
• Team leader with organisational skills.

Desirable:

• TWS or TWC
• First Aid at Work
• SSSTS
• Developing ITP's
• Experience in Groundworks, Earthworks & Reinforced Concrete
• Nuclear experience

Job Information

To ensure all aspects of mechanical and electrical systems are maintained in optimal working order and in compliance with all contractual and legislative requirements.

Main Duties

• To ensure all the contractual assets, mechanical & electrical systems are properly maintained and operating efficiently through effective planned preventative maintenance matching prescribed schedules.

• To ensure all events (failures & faults) that have been raised for any contractual asset, mechanical or electrical system are reacted to timely, ensuring the appropriate actions taken to meet contractual requirements in returning the asset, mechanical or electrical system to full operational service.

• To ensure that all events (failures & faults) where the contractual asset, mechanical or electrical system have been returned to operational service are "closed" in a timely manner and meeting contractual requirements.

• To carry out all work activities in accordance with all relevant and current Health and Safety legislation.

• To advise and assist the management team in reducing the utilities usage at the site, through daily monitoring of the site BMS system, engineering knowledge and best practice.

• To meet with the site management regularly to provide performance information on all events (faults and failures), PPMs, sub-contractor performance, health & safety, lifecycle and utilities consumption reduction.

• To participate in the out of hours stand-by and callout rota on a rotation basis including Bank Holidays.

• To ensure that full Statutory Compliance is maintained in line with PPM schedules and SFG20.

• To conduct testing of life systems (i.e., fire alarm & life-sign monitoring alarm) each week.

• To inform the management team of all faults or failures to any of the contractual assets, mechanical & electrical systems and to confirm to the Premises Manager once these have been corrected.

• To ensure that all sub-contractors are contacted and scheduled to attend site 1 month in advance of their due PPM visit. Act as contact when onsite.

• To provide the Premises Manager with engineers' worksheets or supplier delivery notes and to bring to the attention of the Account Manager any abnormalities or additional works required as raised by the subcontractor.

• To provide the FM team with all necessary information (electronically), including supplier, sub-contractor, part numbers, description, quantities and costs to enable the FM team to place purchase orders as required in a timely and trouble-free manner.

• To provide the Premises Manager, on a monthly basis with all the utilities meter readings.

• To ensure any on site storage facility is kept clean, tidy and organised. To clean up after any self-work activity and ensure all sub-contractors clean up on completion of the activities

• To assist in providing additional works quotations to enable the Premises Manager to complete the relevant contractual AVR (Authority Variation Request), within the required time frames.

• To assist the Account Manager and the site Facilities Manager with any other duties in support of the contract as directed by the Account Manager.

• Any other duties across the PFI Portfolio requested by the company.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Must hold a "time served apprenticeship" ideally in Electrical Engineering

• Must have a demonstrable background in a Maintenance environment

• C&G 17th/ 18th Edition

• Knowledge on how to service/test of systems of highly specialised equipment

• Experience of BMS Systems and generators

• Committed and enthusiastic

• Self-motivated and pro-active approach to business and staff

• Lateral thinker adept at problem solving

• Good organisational skills

• Strong and effective communication skills

• Management of subcontracted services

• Knowledge of Health, Safety & Environment and Hard FM operations

• Knowledge of water management

Mitie is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

If you are working in regulated activity please note that you are subject to the following:

• It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. vulnerable adults, children or both).
• This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Mitie is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children or vulnerable adults.

My client is a leading groundworks contractor with a very busy order book around Southend-on-Sea and they are looking to take on an engineer.

Site Engineer Responsibilities:

• Working alongside the project management team.
• Setting out, foundations, 278 works, drainage, Kerbs etc
• works QA, AS - Builts.
• Ensuring health and safety compliance.
• Ensuring works are being carried out in accordance to agreed methodology and method.
• Ensuring the correct documentation is held on site.
• Ensuring works are completed on time and to specification.

Site Engineer Requirements:

• Right to work in the UK.
• CSCS card
• Full UK driving licence.
• Previous experience within
• Strong communication skills.

If interested please contact Callum Myatt directly, or send your CV to get in touch today!

Setting Out Engineer | Structural Steel

Location: London, UK

️ Industry: Structural Steel Construction

Compensation: £55,000 – £60,000 + Benefits