Divisional Engineer

Are you a Site Engineer or Technical Engineer looking for your next career move in residential construction?

We're recruiting an experienced Site Engineer in York to join a leading UK housebuilder, working closely with design and technical consultants on infrastructure and groundworks packages across residential developments. This is a permanent, full-time opportunity offering excellent career progression, a competitive salary up to £55,000, plus a company car or allowance, and comprehensive benefits with a well-established developer known for quality homes and 5-star service.

This Technical Engineer role is ideal for someone with civil or structural engineering experience who's ready to take ownership of design coordination, statutory agreements and value engineering across new build housing schemes in Yorkshire

Our client is a renowned residential housebuilder with a proven track record of delivering hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the UK. They pride themselves on quality construction, innovative design and exceptional customer service, supported by a superb training programme and structured career development pathways.

Their developments span the residential and new build sector, combining traditional craftsmanship with modern construction methods and sustainability frameworks. This is a business that invests in its people and offers genuine opportunities to progress into senior technical or engineering management positions.

As a Site Engineer or Divisional Engineer, you'll work alongside the design and technical teams who are involved in all aspects of housing design, innovation and material research. Reporting to the Engineering Manager or Technical Director, you'll be responsible for overseeing the design of infrastructure and groundworks packages for residential developments, ensuring compliance with building regulations, adoption agreements and best practice in value engineering.

This is an excellent technical engineer opportunity for an ambitious professional in civil engineering or structural engineering to lead design coordination on high-quality residential schemes with national visibility.

As a Site Engineer in York, your key responsibilities will include:

• Procure service records and manage enquiries for new developments, including responsibility for timely payment of new services infrastructure to support build programmes and project delivery milestones.
• Oversee the design and detailing carried out by externally appointed consulting engineers responsible for providing designs for all external works, including foundation solutions, new estate roads and sewers.
• Secure adoption agreements including Section 38, Section 104 and Section 278 agreements in a timely manner to suit the development programme, ensuring bonds are put in place, reduced and extinguished efficiently.
• Have input into securing structural designs for superstructure components, working with structural consultants and technical coordinators.
• Maintain a continuous process of evaluation and peer review of consultant designs to ensure proposals adhere to best practice in value engineering, cost planning and statutory compliance.
• Liaise with technical team members, building control and local authorities to seek the discharge of building regulations and planning conditions across residential construction projects.
• Coordinate with highway authorities, sewerage undertakers and statutory bodies to ensure infrastructure designs meet approval requirements and adoption standards.

To be successful in this Site Engineer job in York, you will bring significant experience working within a residential or new build construction environment, ideally with exposure to civil or structural consulting engineers.

• Educated to HNC/HND level in an engineering-related discipline such as civil engineering, structural engineering or construction engineering.
• Previous experience in a design-related environment, preferably with civil or structural consulting engineers or within a technical design coordination role.
• Ability to confidently handle negotiations with external bodies, including sewerage undertakers, highway authorities and adoption bodies.
• Strong coordination skills to work effectively with all members of the design team, ensuring development programmes are achieved on time and within budget.
• Computer literate with experience of design software packages such as Autodesk product set.
• PDS or Microdrainage experience desirable although not essential.
• Full UK driving licence essential for visiting developments across Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands.
• Knowledge of NEC contracts, Section 38 highways adoption, Section 104 sewers adoption and building regulations approval processes is highly desirable for this technical engineer position.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful residential housebuilder with an impressive development pipeline and a strong presence across the UK and Yorkshire region.

As a Site Engineer, you'll have the chance to shape infrastructure design and influence project delivery with clear scope for career progression into senior engineering or technical management roles. Package includes:

• Salary: Up to £55,000 (dependent on experience)
• Company car or car allowance
• Competitive annual bonus scheme
• Private medical cover (single cover)
• Annual medical health assessment
• 26 days' holiday, increasing by 1 day for every 3 years' continuous service (up to 29 days)
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Choice of flexible benefits
• Pension scheme
• Career development pathway to Senior Engineer, Engineering Manager or Technical Director

Apply Now: Site Engineer Job in York

Start your next career move in residential construction engineering today.

Apply now to join a market-leading housebuilder delivering quality new build homes across York and the wider Yorkshire region.

If you're successful, we'll be in touch within 48 hours to send you full details about the company, role and development projects.

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