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Highways Innovation Coordinator

November 14, 2022 | Comments Off on Highways Innovation Coordinator

We're looking for a Highways Innovation Coordinator to join our Highways team in Birmingham/Doxey. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands and even more.

Location: Birmingham/Doxey

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £20.5k - £27k

Responsibilities

As a Highways Innovation Coordinator, you'll be working within the Highways Team and will play a key role in supporting our Innovation Strategy and ambitions. You will administer, support, manage and monitor our Innovation and Improvement Hub and Innovation Process

Your day to day will include:

  • Working closely with the Head of Innovation to support the delivery of innovation projects, whilst building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Taking responsibility, maintain, and create (as required) innovation documentation, case studies, lessons learnt log and support the transition of new innovations into business as usual for any successful innovation/improvement projects.
  • Undertake research and horizon scanning for new and innovative ideas as well as attend and contribute at relevant innovation/improvement meetings
Who are we looking for?

This role of a Highways Innovation Coordinator is great for you if you have:

  • Proficient skills in standard Microsoft office suite.
  • Experience of working in an innovation or fundraising team
  • Experience of co-ordinating meetings, logistics and minute taking
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits 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. Some of our favourites include:


  • new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 12th December 2022

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

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