Senior Site Engineer

5D Bespoke People Solutions Ltd
Sizewell, Suffolk, IP16 4UH, United Kingdom
2 days ago
£500 – £550 pd

Salary

£500 – £550 pd

Seniority
Senior
Posted
17 Apr 2026 (2 days ago)

Senior Site Engineer – Based Suffolk – Working on Highway Project at Sizewell

3 Year Contract - £500 - £550p/d – Outside IR35 / CIS

Must Provide Own Equipment (Detailed Below).

5D are working with a leading civils contractor who is heavily involved in major infrastructure projects including Sizewell & HS2 along with a variety of other blue-chip construction and infrastructure projects.

Over the last twenty years this business has grown to be one of the UK’s leading principal contractors and have developed a reputation for excellence.

Working on road and infrastructure upgrades on the Sizewell C site, this project is estimated to be at least 3 years, and is focussed on the earthworks for road and infrastructure upgrades around the site of Sizewell C.

What the Role Will Involve:

* Establishing site control.

* Setting-up GPS base stations on site.

* Topographical surveys using GPS instruments.

* Calculating volumetrics from the data gathered.

* Setting out of complex sites.

* Processing surveys.

* Quantifying stockpiles and running earthworks analysis

* Checking machine control accuracy and completing site QA.

* Diagnosing machine control faults.

What we are Looking in a Candidate:

* Experienced site engineer, with groundworks experience, ideally with largescale infrastructure projects.

* Ideally you will have your own equipment: GPS, Total Station, RTK Drone & Chapter 8 site Vehicle.

* Full driving licence.

What we can offer the successful candidate:

* An opportunity to work on a wide variety of construction and earthmoving projects.

* Long term contract, outside of IR35.

* Unfortunately, sponsorship cannot be offered for this role

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