Section Engineer

About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Section Engineer to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project

The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects. LTC is a new road that will connect Kent and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames and will be the greenest road ever built in the UK - creating six times more green space than road. The reliable new route will almost double road capacity over the river east of London to reduce congestion and give millions of people more choice on where they live, work and spend their valuable time.

We have a diverse programme team on LTC that reflects the communities we work in and fosters an inclusive culture by actively supporting the programme's Purpose, Principles and Cultural Pillars and growing employee networks.

As a Section Engineer, you will support the Design Engineering team in delivering schemes related to our Lower Thames Crossing project.

What you'll be doing

• Construction Delivery: Support the Sub-Agent in the safe, efficient and high quality delivery of compound establishment, Early Enabling Works and associated construction activities.


• Coordinate with subcontractors, suppliers and operational teams to achieve programme requirements.


• Setting Out & Survey Control: Undertake complex setting out, establish and maintain primary survey control, and verify that works are delivered accurately in accordance with drawings, specifications and project requirements. Coordinate surveys and associated interfaces required for design and construction.


• Engineering & Technical Coordination: Coordinate design development, RFIs, Technical Queries and Temporary Works interfaces with designers, surveyors and key stakeholders.


• Contribute to design and construction coordination meetings, addressing buildability, sequencing and site constraints, and provide practical solutions to technical issues.


• Engineering Documentation: Prepare Works Package Plans, Activity Control Plans, Task Briefing Sheets, Method Statements, Risk Assessments, Temporary Works Briefs and supporting engineering documentation appropriate to the works.


• Health, Safety & Environmental Management: Maintain and promote safe systems of work in accordance with the Construction Phase Plan, project procedures and Beyond Zero Harm principles.


• Permits: Prepare, manage and close out Permits to Dig


• Quality Assurance: Produce Inspection and Test Plans and maintain quality records using drawings, specifications and contract documents as key reference points.


• Short-Term Planning & Progress Monitoring: Produce and update weekly and three-week look-ahead programmes, identifying activities, interfaces, constraints, resources and required actions. Communicate targets to the workforce and monitor progress against the programme and agreed KPIs


• CAD & Construction Information: Produce, revise and maintain AutoCAD drawings, compound layouts, sketches, construction information and as-built records, ensuring current information is available to the delivery team


• Materials, Plant & Labour: Undertake quantity and material take-offs and coordinate requisitions and orders in line with the programme.


• Commercial Awareness: Maintain accurate records of completed works and resources.


• Reporting & Escalation: Provide accurate progress updates to the Sub-Agent and promptly escalate design, programme, safety, environmental, quality, commercial or resource constraints requiring action.


• Leadership & Development: Coach and support Site Engineers.

Who we're looking for

• Civil engineering degree or equivalent demonstrable experience gained on civil engineering projects.


• Practical experience supporting the delivery of civil engineering or infrastructure works.


• Competence in AutoCAD, including producing and updating construction drawings and site layouts.


• Ability to produce engineering documentation, short-term programmes, permits and construction records.


• Working knowledge of safe construction delivery and industry good practice.


• Strong communication, coordination and problem-solving skills.


• Experience coordinating surveys, setting out activities and site engineering information.


• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver information to required programme dates.


• Valid SMSTS certification and CSCS card.

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• An attractive / negotiated salary


• 42 core base hours per week


• Company car


• 25 days annual leave


• Pension savings schemes


• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)


• Refer a friend bonus scheme


• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

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 more

About us

Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com