Site Engineer (OHL)

• Planning & coordination: Review IFC drawings, method statements, lift plans, and stringing plans; align with Construction Phase Plan and Temporary Works designs.
• Setting-out & verification: Check tower locations/stubs, foundations, and orientation; confirm wayleave and profile clearances before erection
• Tower assembly oversight: Supervise steelwork pre-assembly, bolt grades/torques, crossarm lifts, insulator and hardware installation; verify earthing continuity.
• Stringing & sagging: Set up winches/tensioners and travelers per manufacturer and client requirements; oversee running-out, tensioning, dead-ends/joints, spacers; achieve/record sag-tension to approved ruling spans and temperature windows.
• Quality assurance: Maintain ITPs and records (torque logs, fitting checklists, sag/tension data, OPGW fibre tests); manage NCRs and close-out.
• Safety, health & environment: Enforce CDM controls, safe systems of work, permits, and exclusion zones; assure LOLER/PUWER compliance for cranes/MEWPs/winches/tensioners; deliver daily briefings and support incident investigations.
• Client procedures & authorisations: Apply National Grid Transmission Procedures (e.g SR106 commissioning, SR135 drawing management) and Safety Rules/NSIs as applicable to the work scope.
• Documentation & reporting: Keep daily records of progress, plant, weather; produce redlines/as-builts and handover packs; support commissioning panels as required.
• Stakeholder engagement: Interface with Client Engineer/NEC Supervisor, land agents, and environmental teams; host/participate in audits and management tours

• Programme adherence: towers/sections completed to plan; minimal re-work from QA/NCRs.
• Handover quality: completion packs/records and as-builts

Requirements

Core experience

• 2-5+ years in OHL construction with tower erection and/or stringing exposure on DNO/TSO projects; working knowledge of BS EN 50341 application in construction.
• Hands-on sag-tension / stringing charts and field measurements; use of travelers, sheaves, running boards, grips, and tensioners in accordance with standard practice.
• Planning and controlling lifting operations for tower sections/crossarms/plant under LOLER (lift plans, SWLs, inspections, competent persons
• Experience with client procedures (e.g National Grid SR106/SR135), commissioning evidence packs, and drawing/as-built management.
• Familiarity with apprenticeship routes and transmission/distribution distinctions (e.g Linesperson standards), helpful for mentoring crews and verifying competencies.