Setting Out Engineer
Job Title: Setting Out Engineer
Location: Gosforth, NE13
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Setting Out Engineer and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as Setting Out Engineer, you’ll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- Company Car/Car Allowance
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Healthcare
- Bonus
- Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
The purpose of this role is to undertake the Setting out of House Foundations, Drives and Boundaries whilst liaising with Site Management & Commercial Teams, Ensuring Health & Safety Standards are upheld.
What you’ll do as a Setting Out Engineer
- Setting out of foundations, drives, boundaries and ancillary areas
- Minor site surveying, volumetric calculations
- Liaison with Site Management & Commercial Teams
- Ensuring Health & Safety Standards are upheld
- Supervise, Check and monitor the progress and quality of sub-contractors work
- Keeping a detailed Daily Site Diary
- Recording As Built information and keeping it well documented.
What experience do I need?
- Minimum HNC qualified
- Proficient in the use of CAD is desirable
- Experience or qualifications in surveying/engineering
- Previous experience using Total Stations / Setting out equipment
- Use of GPS equipment is essential
- Ability to manage and program their own workload
- Use their own initiative to ensure works are completed in accordance with the site programme
- Previous experience as a site engineer/trainee in the construction environment
- Current CSCS Card (Construction Skills Certification Scheme)
- SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme) is preferred
- Full UK driving licence
