Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The primary purpose of a Site Engineer is to ensure that construction projects are completed accurately and safely. You will provide technical advice, manage staff on-site, and ensure compliance with health and safety standards. You will oversee all on-site activities to ensure alignment with the project’s design, specifications, and legal requirements. Responsibilities include managing daily site activities, resolving construction issues, and supporting smooth project delivery from start to finish. This role is part of the Operations Engineering job family, supporting Costain’s delivery of the Brent Cross Structures Programme, which includes structural and highway maintenance, repairs, and upgrades to the TfL network. This position is site based. At Costain, we value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates who are passionate about making a positive impact, even if you don’t meet every criterion. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.

Responsibilities
- Communicate plans with suppliers, foremen, stakeholders, and management
- Coordinate daily work activities and briefings at the start of shifts
- Prepare and deliver toolbox talks, ensuring understanding
- Develop safe systems of work including preparation, review, and approval of Risk Assessment and Method Statements (RAMS)
- Conduct setting out, surveys, and engineering checks
- Perform quality assurance inspections
- Manage high risk tasks by writing, authorising, briefing, and reviewing permit-controlled activities such as excavating, lifting, confined spaces, and electrical work
- Carry out SHE observations and reporting and Contract Targeted Risk Monitoring
- Compile quality and Health & Safety File documentation throughout the project
- Maintain diary records
- Continuously review, assess, and control site hazards
- Conduct training assessments (e.g. CAT & genny)
- Check test certificates for lifting equipment, machinery, harnesses, etc.
- Respond to incidents on site and in the vicinity
- Participate in works readiness reviews
- Conduct COSHH assessments

Experience
- Notable experience delivering infrastructure projects in a site role
- Ability and willingness to guide, mentor, and develop junior staff
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Passionate about engineering and operational delivery

About you
- Committed to safety and quality
- Proactive problem solver
- Team player with strong leadership qualities

Qualifications
Essential
- Civil Engineering related qualification (HNC, HND, BSc, MSc, BEng, MEng)
- SMSTS
- First Aid

Desirable
- Experience working on similar projects
- Appointed Person and lifting training
- Mental Health First Aid
- Fire Marshalling
- Confined Space Training
- CAT & Genny Training
- Temporary Works Supervisor
- Additional First Aid qualifications