Site Production Engineer – Grays

Balfour Beatty Highways is seeking a Site Production Engineer to assist the Design Engineering team on the Lower Thames Crossing project. The role requires ensuring compliance with health and safety protocols, managing daily productivity, and supporting engineering tasks. Candidates should possess an engineering or construction management qualification, relevant experience in large-scale infrastructure projects, and strong communication skills. The company offers a competitive salary, 25 days of annual leave, and various employee benefits. Balfour Beatty is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities.

About the role
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Site Production Engineer to support the Design Engineering team in delivering projects related to our Lower Thames Crossing project.
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.
We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
What you’ll be doing

• Health, Safety & Wellbeing : Fully comply with our LTC ‘Beyond Zero Harm’ programme and the 4 Balfour Beatty Golden Rules, producing specific Works Package Plans, and conducting/recording weekly safety tours.
• Programme and Production : You will communicate daily productivity targets to the supervisor, and you will maintain a visual notice board to record achievements and reasons for not achieving target with agreed actions with the supervisor.
• Engineering & Design Management : Carry out basic setting out using primary control provided by the project surveyor. Produce sketches to support Section Engineers with Technical Queries or Temporary Works Design Briefs.
• Quality Assurance : You will provide specifications and standards required to the supervisor and ensure the supervisor understand and is clear what is required.
• Community : Be aware of stakeholder and community requirements and participate in community engagement events including taking part in volunteering events.
• Environmental Sustainability & Carbon : Understand environmental, sustainability and low carbon commitments and include all requirements in daily activities.
• Procurement : When requested by the Section Engineer raise requisitions for plant and materials in line with procurement, cost management, and administration procedures.
• Handover : Assist the Section Engineer with preparing redlines & as-built drawings.

Who we’re looking for

• Engineering or Construction Management qualification
• Proven experience in a similar role, preferably on large scale infrastructure
  projects
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Experience with NEC 3 / 4 contracts
• Knowledge of construction regulations and best practices.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Full UK drivers licence
• A fit for work medical
• CSCS card
• BPSS Security Clearance

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: –

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our portal.

Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
– 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
– Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
– Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit
We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit:
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