Our environmental services contractor is seeking a Section engineer to join their Stratford based team on a permanent basis with site visits on London based projects.
The Section Engineer will join a growing delivery team, supporting sewage and drainage infrastructure works across the UK. This role is to replace a key vacancy and will play a critical part in delivering projects from pre-construction through to final handover.
Role Responsibilities
Pre-Construction
- Preparation and review of documentation
- RAMS (Risk Assessments & Method Statements)
- Permits to Work
- ITPs (Inspection & Test Plans)
- Temporary Works documentation
- Supporting programme development and buildability reviews
- Liaising with client representatives, water companies, and principal contractors
Construction Phase
- Setting out for drainage and sewer works
- Managing Site Engineers and site teams
- Supervising groundwork, temporary works, and permanent works
- Construction of new manholes and sewer lines
- Ensuring compliance with specifications, quality standards, and H&S requirements
- Coordination with Temporary Works Coordinators and design teams
Handover
- Preparation of as-built drawings
- Compiling QA documentation and handover packs
- Supporting client sign-off and completion procedures
Skills / experience / qualifications
- Proven experience as a Section Engineer (or Site Engineer ready to step up) within sewage, drainage, or utilities infrastructure
- Strong background in groundwork, temporary works, and permanent works
- Experience constructing new manholes and sewer systems
- Competent in setting out
- Experience managing site engineers and site teams
- Strong documentation and QA experience (RAMS, ITPs, permits, as-builts)
- Confident working with water companies and principal contractors
- CSCS card
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Proactive and solution-focused mindset
- Ability to manage works from design stage through to completion
- Strong understanding of UK health & safety regulations
- Organised, detail-oriented, and quality-driven
Desirable
- Experience working on major infrastructure projects (e.g. High Speed 2)
- Confined Space qualification
- Temporary Works Supervisor (TWS) or related qualification
- Appointed Person (AP) qualification (beneficial but not essential)
Benefits
- Competitive salary circa £42k per annum
- Office based in Stratford with sites across London
- Company vehicle or allowance
- Pension scheme
- Career progression within a growing civil engineering contractor
- Opportunity to work on high-profile UK infrastructure projects
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