Site engineer

Site engineering is a technical role which involves surveying and setting out levels of a site to enable accurate production of the building designs. As a site engineer, your input to construction projects will be technical, organisational and supervisory..

Key tasks of the job include:

• managing parts of construction projects
• overseeing building work
• checking technical designs and drawings to ensure that they are followed correctly
• supervising contracted staff
• ensuring project packages meet agreed specifications, budgets and/or timescales
• liaising with clients, subcontractors and other professional staff, especially quantity surveyors and the overall project manager
• providing technical advice and solving problems on site
• preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork
• liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and the pricing of materials
• ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are adhered to.