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Senior Engineer

April 17, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Engineer

Kier Group is looking to recruit a Senior Highways Engineer with Design post-graduate experience in highways design. It is essential that you have experience and knowledge about highways geometry, pavement design, signs & road markings, drainage, vehicle restraint systems to become part of the Kier Highways Design Solutions Team at Waterbeach, Cambridge office. Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.

Location: Birmingham - remote working available, with travel to the office required

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime

Salary: £42k - £50k


Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you'll be responsible for assisting the team leader and senior design manager in delivery of various highways schemes. You will also be responsible for carrying out own design work for internal and external clients. The work will involve delivery of cost effective and technically sound design solutions in National Highways contracts and for local highway authorities in accordance with the DMRB, SHW, TSRGD, TSM, good practice, contract delivery programmes and budgets.

Your day to day will include:
  • Maintain good relations with the Client and other authorities, attending meetings as necessary
  • Identify and apply appropriate methodologies and standards to produce effective and innovative solutions for the schemes and studies to current standards
  • Preparation of fee estimates, design programmes, tender and contract documents. Making a positive contribution towards bids and project proposals making suggestions for new areas of work
  • Liaise with statutory and non-statutory bodies to obtain relevant data, licences and consents. Seeking technical approval as required from external bodies
  • Mentoring and coaching members of staff. Actively contributing to the technical excellence in the team and will supervise, assist and/or mentor team members as required with regards to both technical and professional development and is active in maintaining and developing own technical expertise (CPD)

Who are we looking for?

This role of Senior Highways Engineer is great for you if have:
  • a degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
  • chartered / incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (MICE/MIStructE or equivalent) or possess equivalent experience
  • demonstrable broad in-depth experience in inspection, assessment, design and construction of highway structures to UK standards
  • valid clean driving licence

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
  • 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
  • one professional subscription funded to support your professional development
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: 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: 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 focused 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: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 15 May 2023

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