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Design Team Leader

August 21, 2023 | Comments Off on Design Team Leader

We're looking for a Team Leader to join our Highways team based in Bristol to take the lead and manage a team to prepare scheme designs, design checks, feasibility reports and overall technical support on various Highway design contracts within Kier Design & Technology Services. Current contracts include Local Authority Highway Works, National Highways Area & Regional Contracts particularly Major Projects. Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, a car or car allowance, competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.



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 + £5,300 car allowance



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 delivering various aspects of highways designs (Alignments, Signing, VRS, Pavements etc), 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


    • And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:



    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:

    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:



    Closing date: 16 September 2023



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



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