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Site Engineer – Based in Suffolk - Working on a Large Sizewell C Infrastructure Project

3 Year Contract - £300-£350 p/d – Outside of IR35 / CIS

Must Provide Own Equipment (Detailed Below).

5D are working with a leading civils contractor who is heavily involved in HS2 and 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.

* 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.

* Working alongside a senior site engineer.

What we are Looking in a Candidate:

* 2-5 years’ experience in a similar role, working alongside a senior site engineer.

* Ideally experience with groundworks – but this is not essential.

* 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:

* Unfortunately, sponsorship cannot be offered for this role

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