Job Description

About the role

If youre inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Site Engineer. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you\'ll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. Apply now.

What you\'ll be doing

As a Site Engineer with us, you\'ll discover a breadth of projects you wont find elsewhere. Working on the largest scales, this is your chance to:

• Oversee complex works and instruct talented teams on how to build them
• Measure productivity on site and keep it all on track through engineering controls
• Grow your skills and network across our vast business from rail and roads to power
• Develop your career, from surveying and design to senior engineering roles
• Build health and safety into everything from checking safe systems on sites to producing H&S documentation
• Keep quality at the highest levels and meet design specs to the letter
• Create commercially-focused delivery plans for shorter sections of the master build
• Shape world-changing projects whether you choose to work nationally or regionally
• Learn on the job from engineering and other experts and through ongoing training.

Who we\'re looking for

Making an impact every day as a Site Engineer, you\'ll need:

• Engineering experience and a strong understanding of technical issues and trends
• Up-to-date knowledge of engineering and industry best practice
• A relevant engineering degree and professional qualifications, or equivalent
• The confidence to advise senior managers when action needs taking and follow up
• To build relationships across Balfour Beatty and with external partners
• 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 amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Balfour Beatty has been operating in Scotland for over a century. Today, we directly employ 2,000 colleagues across Scotland and work with a supply chain that includes a substantial proportion of local businesses. Significant projects in the companys current portfolio include the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Biomes Initiative and the Institute for Regeneration and Repair and the Edinburgh Futures Institutes projects for the University of Edinburgh. We recently completed Glasgow Queen Street Station Redevelopment for Network Rail, the University of Strathclydes Learning and Teaching building, Forth Valley Colleges Falkirk Campus and the A9 Dualling Luncarty to Pass of Birnam for Transport Scotland.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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