Section Engineer

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Shape something special as you progress a high-profile engineering career with an industry leader. If you’ve ambition to match ours, this is your chance to make a lasting impact on large-scale projects as a Section Engineer. Joining a growing business, you’ll have plenty of scope to build your skills, explore new sectors and put your name to some of the UK’s most iconic projects. We have an opportunity for an ambitious Section Engineer to join our team on the South Coast to work on a variety of civil engineering projects including Highways & Structures.
What you’ll be doing

As a Section Engineer with Balfour Beatty, you’ll get to make your mark by:

• Leading a team of engineers to shape the future
• Overseeing complex works and instructing talented teams on how to build them
• Measuring productivity on site and keeping it all on track through engineering controls
• Shaping society-changing projects whether you choose to work nationally or regionally
• Building health and safety into all we do, including carrying out inspections
• Keeping quality at the highest levels and meeting design specs to the letter
• Focusing on the commercial aspects at every stage of the build
• Sharing your expertise and experience to support and develop your engineers.

Who we’re looking for

Working on big projects for big clients as a Section Engineer, you’ll need:

• To be able to carry out complex setting out
• An understanding of construction tolerances
• An awareness of complex specification and other contract documents
• An understanding of terms, conditions and outputs of subcontractors and suppliers
• Up-to-date knowledge of engineering and industry best practice
• A relevant engineering degree and professional qualifications, or equivalent
• A passion for what we could achieve together and pride in a job well done.

Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more