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Section Engineer (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Construction
Contract Partner Company:  Kier
Employing Company:  Kier Group

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Section Engineer (Sizewell C)
Kier
Sizewell C


Key Responsibilities


Engineering & Technical Delivery
• Interpret and implement drawings, specifications, and design requirements on site.
• Provide engineering control for construction activities.
• Identify, manage, and resolve technical issues, including technical queries and NCRs.
• Ensure compliance with design requirements, standards, specifications, and permit systems.


Site Supervision & Coordination
• Supervise site operations to ensure works are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with the programme.
• Coordinate site engineers, setting-out teams, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Liaise with the Sub-Agent and foremen to allocate labour, plant, and materials to the required standards, programme, and budget.
• Monitor and coordinate subcontractors to ensure their works meet contractual requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships between the workforce, supervisors, and engineers.


Programme & Progress Control
• Assist with short-term planning, programme updates, progress tracking, and resource planning.
• Maintain site records, including daily diaries and progress reports.
• Identify delays and escalate issues to the Sub-Agent and Project Planner.
• Ensure the team has the current information and resources needed to carry out their duties.


Health, Safety & Environmental Compliance
• Ensure compliance with all health, safety, and environmental standards and procedures.
• Produce and review risk assessments and method statements (RAMS) for the safe execution of the works.
• Organise and deliver toolbox talks, safety briefings, and RAMS briefings to the construction team.
• Carry out and record at least one weekly safety inspection.
• Promote a strong safety culture on site.


Quality Assurance & Records
• Produce and maintain as-built records and inspection and test plans (ITPs).
• Ensure works meet quality standards and specifications.
• Support the production of lifetime quality records (LQRs) and handover documentation.


Temporary Works & Permitting
• Assist with temporary works design and ensure compliance during implementation.
• Raise and manage permits, including permits to break ground, hot works, and lifting operations.
• Ensure compliance with approved temporary works designs and permit systems.


Team Leadership & Development
• Manage, mentor, and support the development of site engineers and graduate engineers.
• Promote collaboration across engineering, commercial, and delivery functions.
• Reports to: Sub-Agent
• Interfaces with: Agent / Project Manager, Site Engineers / Surveyors, Foremen / Supervisors, and Commercial & Planning teams.

 
This profile is not exhaustive. From time to time, you may be required by the Company to perform other tasks not included above, provided they are within your capabilities. Where necessary, training and full support will be given.

 
Diversity, inclusion and wellbeing
Promote the wellbeing of your team and help create an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought, background, and experience is actively encouraged.


Essential Requirements


• Degree / HNC or equivalent in Civil Engineering, Construction, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in Civil Engineering, including site engineering and setting out.
• Experience in infrastructure, highways, heavy civils, earthworks, structures, drainage, or utilities.
• Strong knowledge of construction methods, temporary works, and quality systems.
• Holds a CSCS card.
• Good IT skills, with confidence using MS Office and AutoCAD.
• Ability to communicate effectively with site engineers, foremen, supervisors, and the site-based workforce.
• Demonstrable knowledge and practical application of site engineering activities, combined with construction supervision skills.
• Working towards professional membership such as ICE or CIOB is desirable.
• Value Add for SZC/Major Roads.
• Experience in highly regulated environments such as nuclear or utilities would be beneficial.
• Understanding of quality traceability, lifetime quality records, environmental constraints, and stakeholder-led delivery would be advantageous.
• Experience with concrete structures would be beneficial but is not essential.
 

Collaborative - We enjoy what we do and work closely with clients and stakeholders to find innovative solutions. Working together is vital to building effective relationships across teams, clients, and stakeholders.
Trusted - We deliver what we promise. We act safely and ethically, and we care about the environment and the communities in which we work.
Focused - We are clear in our approach. We are disciplined and thorough in how we work and deliver for our clients and customers.


Desirable:


• SSSTS/SMSTS
• Experience in Groundworks, Earthworks, Roadworks & Structures 
• Nuclear experience

 

 

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The Sizewell C Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.#SZCJobs

 

 

Section Engineer (Sizewell C)
Kier
Sizewell C


Key Responsibilities


Engineering & Technical Delivery
• Interpret and implement drawings, specifications, and design requirements on site.
• Provide engineering control for construction activities.
• Identify, manage, and resolve technical issues, including technical queries and NCRs.
• Ensure compliance with design requirements, standards, specifications, and permit systems.


Site Supervision & Coordination
• Supervise site operations to ensure works are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with the programme.
• Coordinate site engineers, setting-out teams, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Liaise with the Sub-Agent and foremen to allocate labour, plant, and materials to the required standards, programme, and budget.
• Monitor and coordinate subcontractors to ensure their works meet contractual requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships between the workforce, supervisors, and engineers.


Programme & Progress Control
• Assist with short-term planning, programme updates, progress tracking, and resource planning.
• Maintain site records, including daily diaries and progress reports.
• Identify delays and escalate issues to the Sub-Agent and Project Planner.
• Ensure the team has the current information and resources needed to carry out their duties.


Health, Safety & Environmental Compliance
• Ensure compliance with all health, safety, and environmental standards and procedures.
• Produce and review risk assessments and method statements (RAMS) for the safe execution of the works.
• Organise and deliver toolbox talks, safety briefings, and RAMS briefings to the construction team.
• Carry out and record at least one weekly safety inspection.
• Promote a strong safety culture on site.


Quality Assurance & Records
• Produce and maintain as-built records and inspection and test plans (ITPs).
• Ensure works meet quality standards and specifications.
• Support the production of lifetime quality records (LQRs) and handover documentation.


Temporary Works & Permitting
• Assist with temporary works design and ensure compliance during implementation.
• Raise and manage permits, including permits to break ground, hot works, and lifting operations.
• Ensure compliance with approved temporary works designs and permit systems.


Team Leadership & Development
• Manage, mentor, and support the development of site engineers and graduate engineers.
• Promote collaboration across engineering, commercial, and delivery functions.
• Reports to: Sub-Agent
• Interfaces with: Agent / Project Manager, Site Engineers / Surveyors, Foremen / Supervisors, and Commercial & Planning teams.

 
This profile is not exhaustive. From time to time, you may be required by the Company to perform other tasks not included above, provided they are within your capabilities. Where necessary, training and full support will be given.

 
Diversity, inclusion and wellbeing
Promote the wellbeing of your team and help create an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought, background, and experience is actively encouraged.


Essential Requirements


• Degree / HNC or equivalent in Civil Engineering, Construction, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in Civil Engineering, including site engineering and setting out.
• Experience in infrastructure, highways, heavy civils, earthworks, structures, drainage, or utilities.
• Strong knowledge of construction methods, temporary works, and quality systems.
• Holds a CSCS card.
• Good IT skills, with confidence using MS Office and AutoCAD.
• Ability to communicate effectively with site engineers, foremen, supervisors, and the site-based workforce.
• Demonstrable knowledge and practical application of site engineering activities, combined with construction supervision skills.
• Working towards professional membership such as ICE or CIOB is desirable.
• Value Add for SZC/Major Roads.
• Experience in highly regulated environments such as nuclear or utilities would be beneficial.
• Understanding of quality traceability, lifetime quality records, environmental constraints, and stakeholder-led delivery would be advantageous.
• Experience with concrete structures would be beneficial but is not essential.
 

Collaborative - We enjoy what we do and work closely with clients and stakeholders to find innovative solutions. Working together is vital to building effective relationships across teams, clients, and stakeholders.
Trusted - We deliver what we promise. We act safely and ethically, and we care about the environment and the communities in which we work.
Focused - We are clear in our approach. We are disciplined and thorough in how we work and deliver for our clients and customers.


Desirable:


• SSSTS/SMSTS
• Experience in Groundworks, Earthworks, Roadworks & Structures 
• Nuclear experience

 

 

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.

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