Site Engineer

Department: Construction (Trades & Labour)

Employment Type: Contract / Temp

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, Edinburgh Area

What you will be doing:

• Basic understanding of HSES regulations and good practice and ability to communicate to others
• Participates in delivering project Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability targets

• Mentors/coaches Graduate, Assistant and Apprentice Engineers 

•  Keeps a site diary, sharing this information with the site team and contributing to knowledge capture, share  initiative
• Ability to access and interpret engineering information and effectively communicate with the site team, by way of mark-ups, sketches, calculations, or within their setting out of the works
• Provides feedback to the site team on the performance of all project elements, including materials, contractors and designs

• Ability to interrogate design information, to determine if the information is suitable to be included in the works, and to write RFIs and TQs to resolve discrepancies within inadequate engineering information.
• Ensures that engineering information being used on site is current and of construction status, updating files as required

• Provides dimensional control for an area of the works, ensuring that surveying instrumentation used is within calibration.
• Produces as built surveying compliance checks for an area of the works, ensuring the results are presented in a format suitable to be included in the project records.
• Establishes and maintains control from primary control, carrying out checks to the control provided by others and communicating control information to the team
• Able to manage the survey equipment being used on the project
  
  

• Assists in delivery of Quality Plan and Assurance targets relevant to the project 
• Carries out site quality inspections, resolving minor Quality issues as raised by Clients team or self and records on appropriate 
• Quality Plan documentation and files for retrieval 
• Able to interpret specification requirements, produce and work to ITPs
• Produces, maintains and closes out Permits to Work to the project requirements

• Provides quantity information and carries out material call offs and requisitions, measurement of material usage/reconciliation 
• Assists with logistics planning and scheduling Temporary Works:
• Assists the TWC with TW inspections by taking on duty of TW inspector/supervisor
•  Checks and communicates that all TW within work area have been applied to the TW procedure Programme, Scope of Works, Commercial: - Commercially aware, and raises possible variations and changes with Senior or Commercial team members prior to construction - Works to site and contract program

What you will bring:

• You will possess a qualification in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or Structural Engineering to HNC level or above
• A track record of delivering setting out and engineering processes on concrete frame projects.
• Ability to use CAD software for data transfer to/from single person working kit EDM preferable
• Highly competent in surveying and setting out techniques and able to teach others.
• Experience in managing and mentoring Graduate and Apprentice engineers

Benefits

• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Car Allowance 
• Company Pension
• Volunteering Days - With Careys Foundation   - or other organisations that are important to you
• Health Care Cashplan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car Leasing Scheme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Life Assurance
• Buy/sell holidays
• Other discounts and Cashback plans