The Role
Perform manual site duties: equipment handling, loading/unloading, site cleaning, transporting materials, preparing work areas, reporting faults, completing logs, and following health, safety and environmental procedures.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join Trant Engineering and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects.
Trant Engineering is a leading EPC contractor with a strong reputation for delivering innovative engineering solutions across the UK and internationally. With over 1,000 employees and a £150m turnover, we’re growing and at Trant Engineering and Integral Hire (IHL), we offer the opportunity for career development and progression within a professional working environment. We are now looking for a General Operative to play a key role in our project delivery teams.
The Role
The General Operative will be working for our Integral Hire (IHL) division of Trant Engineering and assisting with manual tasks, maintaining site cleanliness, transporting materials and equipment, and ensuring compliance with health & safety standards.
The General Operative will be working for our Integral Hire (IHL) division of Trant Engineering and assisting with manual tasks, maintaining site cleanliness, transporting materials and equipment, and ensuring compliance with health & safety standards.
What You’ll Be Doing
Technical Responsibilities
- General duties such as equipment handling, loading/unloading, site cleaning, and tidying.
- Transport materials and tools safely around the site.
- Prepare and maintain work areas, including clearing debris and maintaining access routes.
- Report faults or resolve minor operational problems independently.
- Complete logs, reports, or system updates accurately.
- Flexible work ethic and ability to adapt to changing priorities.
Safety, Health, Environment and Quality
- Follow all site health, safety, and environmental regulations.
- Wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) at all times.
- Report hazards, unsafe conditions, and near-misses to supervisors.
- Participate in toolbox talks, site briefings, and site inductions.
- Assist in maintaining site standards, cleanliness, and organisation.
- Identify obvious defects or issues and report them to supervisors.
Core Values:
Uphold and promote the Company’s Core Values – Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.
Uphold and promote the Company’s Core Values – Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- CSCS Card.
- UK Driving Licence
- Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring current or future visa sponsorship. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this position.
Desirable
- NVQ Level 1 in Civil Engineering, Construction.
- GCSE – English & Math.
- Previous experience in a similar role 0-1 years.
Why Join Trant?
At Trant Engineering, we deliver complex, high-value engineering and construction projects across the UK. From process and water treatment to energy infrastructure upgrades, we play a key role in delivering and protecting critical national infrastructure – shaping the systems that communities and industries rely on every day.
Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities – from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful.
Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential.
Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.
Our company benefits package includes:
Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities – from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful.
Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential.
Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.
Our company benefits package includes:
- Competitive rates.
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays).
- Options to buy additional holiday via salary sacrifice.
- Company pension scheme.
- Employee assistance program.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
Join us and be part of something bigger.
About
Trant Engineering has a long history of engineering and construction excellence, delivering high quality EPC engineering and construction services throughout the UK and overseas. We successfully design & deliver complex engineering projects in sectors such as Process & Water, Energy, Defence, Oil & Gas and Nuclear. We offer clients a range of services including design, manufacturing, installation, construction and commissioning. Through collaboration with our strategic technology partners and enhancing our in-house design and manufacturing capability, we have aligned the company to be at the forefront of engineering excellence.Our in-house multi-disciplinary services include civil, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation, supplemented by the design and manufacture of Control Panels, MCC’s, PLC’s, SCADA and automation systems. We have over 1000 employees and with a healthy forward order book with a targeted turnover of £150m this year, it is an exciting time to join a business where you can reach your full potential and develop your career.
Skills Required
- CSCS Card
- UK Driving Licence
- Legal right to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship
- NVQ Level 1 in Civil Engineering or Construction
- GCSE English and Maths
- Previous experience in a similar role (0-1 years)
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The Company
What We Do
Trant Engineering Ltd is a UK-based engineering, procurement and construction company delivering technology-led solutions for complex projects. It serves energy, process and water, and nuclear sectors, offering in-house civil, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation design, manufacturing, installation, construction and commissioning. With more than 1,000 employees, it supports EPC projects through integrated multidisciplinary capabilities and strategic technology partnerships across the UK and overseas.
