Job Description

• The site engineer offers advice in the planning, co-ordination and supervision of technical aspects of construction projects.
•  The Site Engineer will establish the level and survey control for contracts and set out detailed works as per the contract drawings, ensuring that checks are made on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

• Managing parts of construction projects.
• Acting as the main technical adviser on a construction site for subcontractors, crafts people and operatives.
• Setting out, levelling and surveying the site.
• Checking plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations.
• Ensuring that all materials used and work performed are as per specifications.
• Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant.
• Agreeing a price for materials and making cost-effective solutions and proposals for the intended project.
• Managing, monitoring and interpreting the contract design documents supplied by the client or architect.
• Liaising with any consultants, subcontractors, supervisors, planners, quantity surveyors and the general workforce involved in the project.
• Liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and negotiating the price of materials.
• Ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are strictly adhered to on site.
• Liaising with the local authority (where appropriate to the project) to ensure compliance with local construction regulations and by-laws
• Communicating with clients and their representatives (architects, engineers and surveyors), including attending regular meetings to keep them informed of progress.
• Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site labour force and the work of any subcontractors.
• Planning the work and efficiently organising the plant and site facilities in order to meet agreed deadlines.
• Preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork.
• Preparing reports as required;
• Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties and other problems that may arise.
• Any other function as may be assigned by the CEO and/ or GMD.