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Senior Design Engineer
July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Design Engineer
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: Penrith, remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required
Contract: Permanent, Full Time (We can offer this role as either full time or part time, please specify in your application)
Salary: Up to £48k + 26 days of annual leave + Benefits
Responsibilities
As a Senior Design Engineer working within the Penrith design team, you will be involved in a range of work on National Highways design contracts and some other Kier contracts. Typical design schemes include surfacing renewal, sign and safety fence replacement, depot improvement and maintenance and other network improvement measures.
Your day to day will include:
- Leading the preparation of scheme designs, design checks, feasibility reports and documentation in accordance with specified briefs and in line with the time and budgetary allocations
- Contributing and assisting with the programming and resourcing, checking team output, ensuring accuracy for successful delivery of the workload
- Sharing your knowledge and experience with the early career staff within the team
Who are we looking for?
This role of Senior Design Engineer is great for you if:
- Have experience of working in a highways design office environment
- Preparing design documentation for highways maintenance
- Preparing improvement schemes
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 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 huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
- 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?
As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.
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: 24 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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