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Senior Engineer
May 31, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Engineer
Job Title: Senior Engineer - Highways Structures
Location: Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Business Stream: Highways
Contract / Hours: Permanent, Fulltime
Salary: £38k-46k + Private Healthcare + Pension + Benefits
We are Kier, one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure services, working on projects such as Local and Strategic Highways. Kier Group is many things to many people. We're a leading Regional Builder, the UK's No. 1 Highways service team and a Top-Three Utility & Power provider. We're an industry-leader in health and safety at work - and a responsible citizen who adds billions of pounds of social value to the communities where we do business. Above all, we're a team of people built on many backgrounds and experiences, a company that values you for who you are and what you do.
We are now recruiting for a Senior Engineer to join our Highways team to produce CAD deliverables including drawings, bar bending schedules and drawing registers for bridge structures projects on time, within budget and to the agreed standards.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Engineer, you will be undertaking services within an engineering environment which may include, scheme investigation, site and structure inspections, data collection and analysis, feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed design, preparation of tender documents, works/construction inspection and supervision to progress scheme design, development and construction. Managerial duties will involve the delivery of technical outputs of project teams, acting as Lead Designer on work undertaken by the team and contributing to technical excellence and innovation across the team.
You will be contributing to value management / engineering to support Principal Engineers and Project Managers in ensuring that schemes are delivered with innovation. Develop talent within the team by coaching and mentoring Engineers, Technicians and Graduates and supporting their technical career development aspirations.
What do we need from you?
- A degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Chartered / incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (MICE/MIStructE or equivalent) or possess equivalent experience
- Experience using relevant engineering software associated with the role
- Comfortable carrying out technical compliance checks for project team outputs
- Demonstrable broad in-depth experience in inspection, assessment, design and construction of highway structures to UK standards
- Ability to work without supervision
- New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- A fantastic matched pension scheme
- 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
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
- And many many more!
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing .
Advert Close Date: 28th June 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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