Site Engineer (permanent position)

• Position: Site Engineer
• Office location: Crawley, West Sussex
• Salary/Package: £ competitive + car allowance and comprehensive package
• Target start date: October/November 2026

The role:

We are looking for a skilled Site Engineer to manage setting out, QA and technical coordination on a variety of construction building projects in Sussex and Surrey.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintaining up-to-date construction drawings and registers
• Carrying out site surveys and level surveys before sites start
• Setting out all elements and controlling line and level across the projects
• Checking building layout in relation to site boundaries
• Setting out groundworks, earthworks, foundations, drainage, roads, kerbs and external works
• Taking off and assisting with ordering all groundworks and RC frame materials.
• Resolving setting out problems and raising and tracking RFIs.
• QA on site and implementing site Inspection Test Plans.
• Raising technical submittals and maintaining as-built records.
• Use of CAD and Leica EDM (TS06 / TS07 / TS16).

About you:

Essential:

• A consistent employment history, ideally demonstrating good tenure with previous employers.
• Previous experience of setting out on building projects.
• Sound knowledge of construction methods, health and safety and legal regulations
• Fully conversant with the use of robotic total station or EDM instruments
• Degree qualified/HNC (or equivalent) in construction or civil engineering
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in using AutoCAD and MS Office
• Someone that is a team player.  This employer is looking for someone that is going to get involved and contribute to a project's success.

Desirable:

• Temporary-works coordination
• CSCS card
• Cable avoidance training
• First aid training
• NEBOSH or IOSH

Why apply for this role:

This is a position with a regional main contractor where new roles don't come up that often due excellent staff retention and taking on a limited number of projects at any one time to ensure a focused delivery of schemes in the education, commercial, leisure, social housing and groundworks sectors for their repeat clients.  You will receive

• Consistent pipeline of work in the local area
• A competitive salary
• Excellent car allowance (one of the best I've come across)
• 25 days holiday
• 5% pension
• Discretionary bonus upon completion of the qualifying period