About the role
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a Site Engineer to join our team on the Highways A57 Link Road scheme, this role will be based at Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester.
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play. We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers.
We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard
What you’ll be doing
As a Site Engineer you will coordinate a section of works, working alongside a team of Site Engineers and Graduate/Apprentice Engineers. In addition to this you will Lead and control site works, according to a specific discipline, for both self-delivered and sub-contract works.

Some other key responsibilities will be:

• Maintain comprehensive records of site works
• Carry out setting out and dimensional checks and understand limitations of instruments and surveying methods
• Maintain survey records and produce as-built drawings
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings (reinforcement, drainage, earthworks)
• Supervise graduate / trainee engineers
• Manage specific site operations, including subcontractors
• Input into weekly programme and produce short term schedules
• Monitor construction activities for progress against programme
• Contribution to production of Permit to Dig, including briefing to the workforce
• Carries out onsite Safety Inspections and Hazard Identification

Who we’re looking for

Some other key responsibilities will be:

• Maintain comprehensive records of site works
• Carry out setting out and dimensional checks and understand limitations of instruments and surveying methods
• Maintain survey records and produce as-built drawings
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings (reinforcement, drainage, earthworks)
• Supervise graduate / trainee engineers
• Manage specific site operations, including subcontractors
• Input into weekly programme and produce short term schedules
• Monitor construction activities for progress against programme
• Contribution to production of Permit to Dig, including briefing to the workforce
• Carries out onsite Safety Inspections and Hazard Identificatio

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• 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 mor