Senior Road Lighting Design Engineer

July 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Road Lighting Design Engineer

Job Title: Senior Lighting Engineer

Location: Nationwide, this is an agile role where you will be based out of our local Kier offices with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites

Business area: Highways

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime

Salary: £37k - £48k + Private Healthcare + car +

We are Kier, one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure services, working on projects such as Local and Strategic Highways.

We are now recruiting for a Senior Lighting Design Engineer to join our Highways team in to provide support to clients and lead the development of road lighting design projects on time, within budget and to the agreed standards.

Key Responsibilities

As Senior Road Lighting Design Engineer, you will identify how information can be utilised to achieve specific project aims and how it will be applied throughout the engineering process. Work with the project teams and clients to ensure assigned problems or issues are defined well enough and that the requirement (brief) is fully understood. Identify and take account of relevant technical and engineering standards at all project stages. Resolve assigned problems or issues to support the delivery of projects or design objectives. Take responsibility for engineering and technical tasks, identifying where unfamiliar techniques and methodologies will be used to resolve issues. Understanding of engineering and technical disciplines health and safety, quality management and environmental management systems and project management techniques and practices, including contractual and commercial issues gained through experience. Good communication skills with fluent written and verbal English. Provide advice and guidance to junior engineers and other members of the project team on matters within own specialism.

What do we need from you?

  • HNC/HND or Degree or equivalent in appropriate discipline
  • IEng or EngTech (or working towards this status) through a relevant institution
  • ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma. Specialist knowledge of the road lighting design discipline gained through advanced training or qualifications and experience
  • Understanding of engineering and technical disciplines health and safety, quality management and environmental management systems and project management techniques and practices, including contractual and commercial issues gained through experience
  • Technical team management
  • Valid driving licence
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.

  • 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!
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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 .

Closing Date: 23rd August 2022

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

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