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Technology Design Engineer

October 7, 2022 | Comments Off on Technology Design Engineer

We're looking for a Technology Design Engineer to join our Highways team based in Birmingham or Basingstoke. Within this role, you can enjoy 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.

Location: Birmingham or Basingstoke where you will be based out of our either office with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Salary: £32k - £39k + Company Car + 26 days holiday plus bank holiday + Benefits

Responsibilities

As a Technology Design Engineer, you'll contribute, complete and if necessary, manage a full technology design package output in line with client requirements, against defined governance and assurance frameworks, process and procedures.

Your day to day will include:

  • Proactively highlighting issues at an early stage, allowing technology design and engineering teams to recommend timely mitigations to facilitate designs that are right first time.
  • Help with and input into opportunities for continuous improvement across all technology team policies and processes.
  • Contribute to the flow of information by attending/conducting (if required) regular scheme specific meetings to ensure the project teams are updated on relevant objectives/issues regarding the project
Who are we looking for?

This role of Technology Design Engineer is great for you if:

  • Have a Degree or equivalent qualification within a technology bias engineering discipline e.g. communications, electronic/electrical engineering.
  • Proven track record of successful service delivery, operational, design, and delivery of highways technology infrastructure projects; with knowledge of operational maintenance, construction and site experience being key.
  • Knowledge of ITS, IoT, Telco, and IP technologies and their applications against the services Kier Services Highways supplies
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
  • 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 so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

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: 4 November 2022

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