Site Engineer

Managing parts of construction projects

• overseeing building work
  
• undertaking surveys
  
• setting out sites
  
• 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.
  

Site engineers work out on a construction site in all weathers and tend to work on one project at a time. Depending on the location of the project, they might need to relocate or complete a lengthy commute.