About the Role
The position assists the Project Manager and Construction Manager in project delivery and site engineering, ensuring safe delivery within schedule, cost and quality requirements for a highways project that includes bridge examination and general engineering duties around M40 Junction 10–12.
It requires experience using a robotic total station and a willingness to travel nationwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Assurance of Construction Works
- Verify that works are constructed in accordance with approved designs, risk assessments, and inspection/test regimes.
- Provide daily engineering assurance on site.
- Identify deviations from design or method and escalation.
- Inspection, Verification and Records
- Set out and perform dimensional checks.
- Inspect safety‑critical works.
- Verify construction activities such as pours, groundworks and installations.
- Maintain accurate engineering records and evidence.
- Support ‘hold, witness and inspection points’ within the Engineering Management Plan.
- Temporary Works Implementation (TWS‑type functions where delegated)
- Supervise installation of temporary works.
- Inspect prior to loading/use.
- Remove and dismantle temporary works.
- Ensure works are implemented only in accordance with approved designs and permits.
- No authority for design approval or change.
- Monitoring Compliance and Escalation
- Identify non‑conformances, deviations from design or RAMS, unsafe or uncontrolled works.
- Escalate issues to TWC, Construction Manager or DI as appropriate.
- Prevent progression of non‑compliant work activities.
- Engineering Input into Planning and Sequencing
- Support constructability reviews.
- Sequence works and interface coordination (temporary/permanent works).
- Assist in defining safe‑build methodology and logical construction stages.
- Evidence, Records and “Golden Thread”
- Produce and maintain inspection records, verification data and as‑built information.
- Contribute to the project evidence base required under Building Safety Act 2022 and Engineering Management Plan requirements.
- Support to Dutyholder Framework (CDM 2015)
- Act as a key enabler of dutyholder compliance by monitoring construction works.
- Provide real‑time assurance and support risk‑control implementation.
- Ensure work is planned, managed, and monitored safely on site.
Qualifications & Experience
- Civil Engineering degree
- Bridges & structures examinations experience
- Highways experience as a Site Engineer (not essential)
- Organising and managing ITP's
- SMSTS/SSSTSCSCS certification
