Site Engineer

Site Engineer – £40,000–£45,000

Location: Rickmansworth
Start Date: 17/11/2025
Employment Type: Permanent
Hours: 45 hours per week

Are you a skilled Site Engineer looking to advance your career delivering major civil engineering and water infrastructure projects? This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established organisation offering long-term work security, strong progression opportunities, and a supportive, people-first culture.

The Role

As a Site Engineer, you will provide vital engineering support across multiple projects. You will be responsible for establishing survey control, setting out works in accordance with drawings and specifications, supporting quality assurance, and helping coordinate resources and short-term planning. This role is ideal for someone who is technically strong, detail-focused, and confident in solving challenges on site.

Key Responsibilities

Health, Safety & Environment

You will promote safe working practices across the site, ensuring full compliance with procedures, legislation, and environmental obligations. A strong safety-first approach is essential, maintaining a culture where wellbeing and best practice are consistently upheld.

Quality

You will help ensure that all work is delivered to a defect-free standard. This includes following internal quality procedures, supporting inspection regimes, and identifying opportunities for value engineering to improve outcomes.

Site Engineering

Your duties will include establishing level and survey control for projects and setting out detailed works accurately. You will maintain precise engineering records and resolve any technical issues or unexpected problems that arise. You will also prepare procurement schedules, liaise with procurement teams, produce ITPs and Task Briefings, and complete site diaries and allocation sheets. In partnership with the Site Agent, you will help prepare two-week look-ahead plans.

About You

To succeed in this role, you should have previous experience setting out on civil engineering projects and possess a strong understanding of construction methods, health and safety practices, and legal regulations. You must be fully conversant with robotic total stations or EDM instruments and hold a degree or HNC in Civil Engineering or an equivalent qualification. Strong communication skills and a proactive, positive approach are essential.

It is desirable that you have experience using AutoCAD and Microsoft Office, along with knowledge of temporary works coordination. Additional helpful training includes CSCS, cable avoidance, first aid, and either NEBOSH or IOSH.

Additional Experience

Ideal applicants will have experience in direct delivery environments, particularly with large-diameter clean water pipeline installations, connection details, streetworks, and service avoidance. Experience with setting out using EDM or GPS, compiling ITPs, conducting quality checks, producing as-builts, supervising temporary works, managing health, safety, and environmental compliance, issuing permits to dig, and overseeing subcontractors and design inputs will be beneficial.

What’s on Offer

This role offers a competitive salary alongside a comprehensive benefits package that includes pension, life assurance, private medical cover, 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and loyalty days, volunteering time, and an employee assistance programme supporting wellbeing. You will have access to flexible benefits via salary sacrifice, a company car, green car scheme, car allowance or van depending on role, leadership and management training, regular performance reviews, internally and externally delivered training, and long-service recognition.

If you are looking for a position that offers stability, long-term career development, and the chance to work on major infrastructure projects within a supportive environment, this role provides an excellent opportunity to grow your engineering career