Senior Engineer

June 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Engineer

Job Title: Senior Engineer

Location: Flexible working available, where you will be based out of our Penrith office with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites

Business area: Highways

Contract / Hours: Permanent. We can offer this role as either full time or part time, please specify in your application.

Salary: £35k - £48k + Private Healthcare + Benefits

We are Kier, one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure services, working on projects such as Local and Strategic Highways.

A fantastic opportunity for a Senior Highways Engineer to lead the preparation of scheme designs, design checks, feasibility reports and documentation in accordance with specified briefs and in line with the time and budgetary allocations.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Highways Engineer working within the Penrith design team, you will be involved in a range of work for both internal Kier contacts and some other clients. Your responsibilities will include contributing and assisting with the programming and resourcing, checking team output, ensuring accuracy for successful delivery of the workload. There is expected to be a mix of maintenance, small scale improvements and some new build/major projects. You will be expected to help and guide the early career staff within the team. A wide range of experience in work such as pavement renewal, safety fencing and signing would be a benefit.

What do we need from you?

Experience of working in a design office environment and preparing design documentation for highways maintenance and improvement schemes is essential

At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
  • A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
  • A fantastic matched pension scheme
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.
  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
  • And many many more!
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Closing Date: 26th July 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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