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Design Team Leader
July 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Design Team Leader
Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.
Location: Bristol - remote working available with travel to the office
Contract: Permanent, flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know
Salary: £45K-53K
Responsibilities
As Team Leader, you'll be working under broad direction with little supervision, managing own time effectively establishing own milestones, deadlines and team objectives and delegates responsibility to ensure projects are completed in a timely and cost-effective way
Your day to day will include:
- provide design support to the Design Manager and highways design team(s) overseeing the preparation of technical drawings, specifications and design calculations. Reviewing work of other professional staff and may direct a team and/or a unique element of a project
- 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
- maintain good relations with the Client and other authorities, attending meetings as necessary
Who are we looking for?
This role of Team Leader is great for you if have:
- experience in a similar role within highways design, working on National Highways / Local Authority schemes in the UK
- chartered member accreditation or working towards
- experience in overseeing and mentoring junior members of staff and liaising with a variety of stakeholders
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 fantastic matched pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
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: 8 August 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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