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VAE Team Leader

November 23, 2022 | Comments Off on VAE Team Leader

We're looking for a Value Added Engineering (VAE) Team Leader to join our Highways team based in Birmingham. You'll be working with the Head of Professional Technology Services (HoPTS) to focus on the day-to-day facilitation of activities within the team and growth of Value-Added Engineering (VAE), with specific focus on VAE services and its combined portfolio within Professional Engineering Services (PES) of Kier Technology Services (KTS), Kier Strategic Highways. 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.

Location: Birmingham - with a degree of remote working available, with travel to other offices and sites when required

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime

Salary: £46K-53K

Responsibilities

As a Value Added Engineering (VAE) Team Leader, you'll be working within the Highways team directly responsible for the day-to-day oversight of the VAE Team, with line management responsibility for Senior Engineers and other roles within VAE as required, setting and prioritising workloads, governing the management of all VAE team members performance, setting outcome driven objectives, as well as increasing the teams capabilities to provide Professional Consultancy Services with a defined and consistent project management approach, ensuring that the project needs of the business are being met and delivered.

Your day to day will include:
  • To be responsible for VAE oversight in collaboration with the HoPTS to ensure the VAE Team meets its requirements through monitoring and reviewing results for 'On-Time-In-Full' (OTIF) delivery
  • To be responsible for populating and maintaining the Highways England Forward Programme when required by the client, ensuring the needs of the network are identified and captured ready for developing feasibility studies and reports to justify the requirements of renewing Technology Assets
  • To supports the HoPTS in preparing an annual personal development plan for the Professional Services Team with a VAE focus, to ensure training needs are appropriately identified, and a mutually agreed training plan for individual staff members is progressed
Who are we looking for?

This role of Value Added Engineering (VAE) Team Leader is great for you if you:
  • Possess a relevant experience, and/or tertiary qualification in any of the following; Information Systems, Accounting, Finance or equivalent
  • Knowledge of Highways England Technology Assets, Infrastructure, and their applications against the services Kier Highways/Strategic Highways supplies
  • Able to tailor communication to specific audience, particularly communicating complex concepts in an unambiguous way for non- technical audiences
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
  • A fantastic matched pension scheme
  • 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: 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: 21 December 2022

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