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Design Engineer
August 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Design Engineer
Location: Aztec West, Bristol
Business Area: Kier Professional Services
Job Grade: C4
Kier Professional Services (KPS) are an exclusive in-house resource, providing readily available expert advice to support understanding and resolution of technical project issues in temporary and permanent works. KPS are able to quickly mobilise resources to support project delivery and consistently deliver a dependable design service for buildability and safety.
We are currently recruiting for a Design Engineer to contribute to the delivery of a broad range of complex Civil and Structural related services in both temporary and permanent works.
Key Responsibilities
In this exciting Design Engineer role, you'll contribute towards Permanent Works designs for buildings, highways and infrastructure. You'll ensure Temporary Works designs are integrated with Permanent Works and produce BIM models to support tender schemes. You'll also provide design management advice to support bid winning on projects for multi-disciplinary teams. As part of your role, you'll be tasked with providing technical assessment of 3rd party designs and providing both engineering expertise and technical support to support engineering excellence and resolve technical project, construction and design issues to facilitate the highest of technical standards.
What are we looking for?
Ideally, you'll have 5 years Design Engineering experience and be actively working towards membership of a relevant professional institution such as IPD for EngTech MICE or IEng MICE and demonstrable post-graduate experience. You'll also have a valid CSCS card and have a design focused approach. This is a perfect opportunity for someone to get professionally qualified (if not already) and develop a career within Kier.
What will you receive?
You can expect a competitive salary, company car or allowance (£4,500 if chosen), and an outstanding package, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday), two employee Share Scheme options, together with additional valuable benefits such as:
- Free Life Assurance
- Flexible and Agile working (dependent on your role)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Kier Rewards, our exclusive Discount Shopping Site with deals available at over 800 retailers
- Plus, many more benefits geared to your wellbeing
Flexible/Agile Working
At Kier we believe that - wherever we can, whether office or site-based - we should embrace an agile/flexible approach to working. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to do this. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around agile working and flexibility - We'll do our best to support you.
Make the journey. Leave a legacy.
Being part of Kier means living our values of being Collaborative, Trusted and Focused. We all have the potential to shape our world, and it's through these values that we will leave a lasting legacy. Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you will be given the scope and opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to a rich and diverse culture.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all of our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. If you'd like to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Kier, you can contact the team by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.
Closing Date: Friday 1st October 2021
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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