Job Description

General information

City/town:

Bedford

Job field:

Construction

External closing date:

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Type of contract:

Permanent

ID:

5374

Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.



We are looking for a Section Engineer to join our Infrastructure team in Bedford.

What you'll do:

Plan and prepare short and medium-term programmes aligned with overall contract requirements. Track and monitor actual work outputs; analyze and explain variances from plans. Facilitate site safety by preparing and reviewing safe working methods. Conduct safety and engagement reviews of on-site activities. Intervene to prevent unsafe occurrences and recognize positive safety actions. Prepare, review, and issue permits to work as required, based on competence and training. Raise challenges or blockers to Line Manager that may affect safe, on-time delivery.

What you'll bring to the role:

Demonstrate a desire for continuous learning and development for yourself and others. Collaborate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Actively promote an inclusive work and project environment. Maintain ethical and transparent management of safety, quality, and environmental performance in your responsible works. Apply knowledge of engineering principles and construction techniques in your work.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:

recruitment@skanska.co.uk

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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