SITE ENGINEER

  • Full-time

Company Description

Our Advantage

Bradfield is equipped not only to attract excellent personnel but to ensure that they are improved and empowered to deliver on every client’s strategic intent/organizational goal. Our value is to assist in getting rid of all inconvenience associated with recruitment; plus reducing unsuitable employees either via skill or culture.

Job Description

  • Managing parts of construction projects.

  • Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site labour force and the work of any subcontractors.

  • Setting out, leveling, surveying the site and organizing facilities.

  • Checking plans, drawings, and quantities for accuracy of calculations.

  • Supervising contracted staff.

  • Ensuring projects meet agreed specifications, budgets or timescales.

  • Liaising and communicating with clients, subcontractors and other professional staff, especially quantity surveyors and the overall project manager; regularly providing progress report.

  • Acting as the main technical adviser on a construction site for subcontractors, crafts people and operatives.

  • Preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork.

  • Liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and negotiating the price of materials, making cost-effective solutions and proposals for the intended project.

  • Ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are adhered to.

  • Ensuring that all materials used and work performed are as per specifications.

  • Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant.

  • Managing, monitoring and interpreting the contract design documents supplied by the client or architect.

  • Liaising with the local authority (where appropriate to the project) to ensure compliance with local construction regulations and by-laws.

  • Planning the work and efficiently organizing the plant and site facilities in order to meet set deadlines.

  • Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties and other problems that may arise

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s / HND degrees in civil, construction or building Engineering/technology.

  • Minimum of 4 years’ experience in construction and site engineering.

  • Must be COREN certified.

Additional Information

Skills and Competence:

  • Commercial awareness – an understanding of how your actions can affect the profitability of a project.

  • Communication skills; written and verbal, 

  • Technical and excellent IT skills.

  • Accuracy and attention to detail.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Project management skills.

  • Organization skills and a methodical approach to work.

  • Negotiation skills.

  • Strong team working skills.

  • Flexibility.

  • Knowledge of relevant building and health and safety legislation.

Application Deadline: 20th December, 2019