Section Engineer - A1 North to Scotland - Leeds

As a Section Engineer, you will take the lead in delivering a package of works providing management of a multi-disciplinary team comprising Site Engineers, Assistant Engineers & Foremen

• Manage performance; monitor the competency of team members and undertake training/ coaching as appropriate


• Carry out field audits and confirm the sufficiency of control documentation


• Guide and coach subordinates in technical requirements and techniques of setting out and is also able to undertake if required


• Guide and coach subordinates in resolution of construction issues, drawing on experience and accepted industry best practice


• Read and determine in formation from drawings, schedules and specifications


• Collate and manage documentation and records into handover.
  
  You will have the following:


• Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights


• Hold a current driving license and CSCS Card. SSSTS or SMSTS qualified


• Strong communication skills with good interpersonal and influencing skills


• Solution orientated approach to issue resolution


• Excellent role model for development of team members and demonstrates required behaviours to align to project and team objectives


• Strong knowledge and management of construction process in one or more of the following areas: Earthworks/Drainage, Pavement, Structures, Roadworks


• Targeting and actively progressing professional accreditation (eg ICE, IHT)
  
  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.

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Section Engineer to join our talented Highways Team on the M1/M62 CSB scheme in Leeds and build something you can be proud of., 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

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


• 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

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

Balfour Beattys 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.