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Design Team Leader
March 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Design Team Leader
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: Salford, Manchester - remote working with the need to attend the office as required (usually weekly) to meet the team
Contract: Permanent, Fulltime
Salary: £competitive
Responsibilities
As a Highways Design Team Leader, you'll lead a team consisting of Senior Engineers, Engineers, Technicians and Graduates and taking responsibility for designs, drawings and reports produced to meet the client requirements.
Your day to day will include:
- ensuring that deliverables are produced to programme, following Kier processes and procedures as well as the Client specific requirements
- identifying design solutions and ensuring their compliance with the requirements of the DMRB and other relevant design standards, health and safety legislation and CDM Regulations.
- collaborating with other design disciplines and the Principal Contractor
- attendance and representing Kier at Client meetings
- supporting the design and project managers in the reporting of progress to clients including review of completion against planned programme
Who are we looking for?
This role of Design Team Leader is great for you if you are a:
- Chartered / Incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (MICE / MICIHT or equivalent)
- demonstrable broad in-depth experience in inspection, design, and construction of highway schemes to UK standards
- full driving licence
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk 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
- a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- 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: 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: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf
Closing date: 20 April 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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