Site Engineer at Bradfield Consulting

Details:

Job Role:

• Managing parts of construction projects.
• Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site labour force and the work of any subcontractors.
• Setting out, levelling, surveying the site and organising facilities.
• Checking plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations.
• Supervising contracted staff.
• Ensuring projects meet agreed specifications, budgets or timescales.
• Liaising and communicating with clients, subcontractors and other professional staff, especially quantity surveyors and the overall project manager; regularly providing progress report.
• Acting as the main technical adviser on a construction site for subcontractors, crafts people and operatives.
• Preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork.
• Liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and negotiating the price of materials, making cost-effective solutions and proposals for the intended project.
• Ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are adhered to.
• Ensuring that all materials used and work performed are as per specifications.
• Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant.
• Managing, monitoring and interpreting the contract design documents supplied by the client or architect.
• Liaising with the local authority (where appropriate to the project) to ensure compliance with local construction regulations and by-laws.
• Planning the work and efficiently organising the plant and site facilities in order to meet agreed deadlines.
• Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties and other problems that may arise.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, structural, geotechnical, construction, mechanical, electrical or building Engineering/technology.
• A Master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in construction and site engineering.
• Must be COREN certified.

Skills and Competence:

• Commercial awareness – an understanding of how your actions can affect profitability of a project.
• Communication skills, written and oral, with the ability to liaise effectively with a range of other professionals, e.g. Construction managers, quantity surveyors, subcontractors, architects, designers, other engineers;
• Technical and excellent IT skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Project management skills.
• Organisation skills and a methodical approach to work.
• Negotiation skills.
• Strong team working skills.
• Flexibility.
• Knowledge of relevant building and health and safety legislation.