Highways Engineer

Join Our Team as a Highways Engineer!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We’re on the lookout for a passionate Highways Engineer to join our dynamic Design – Highways team based in Birmingham/Northampton. This is your chance to make a real impact on highway maintenance and improvement schemes!

Location & Working Conditions

Location: Birmingham/Northampton – Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working with just 2 days per week in our office.

Hours: 40 hours per week – We offer some flexibility on hours, just let us know what works for you!

Salary: Starting from £35,000 per annum

Your Role

As a Highways Engineer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of highway schemes from concept to detailed design. Collaborating with our Team Leader and Senior Engineers, you’ll contribute to high-quality, compliant designs while enhancing your technical skills in a supportive, wellbeing-focused environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support feasibility, preliminary, and detailed highway design to DMRB and local authority standards.
• Produce technical drawings, calculations, and supporting information using AutoCAD and highways design software.
• Develop and assess engineering options, focusing on safety, buildability, sustainability, and whole-life cost.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams using Common Data Environments.
• Conduct site visits and surveys, providing design support during delivery.
• Assist with fee estimates, programmes, bids, and tender documentation.
• Maintain effective relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for quality, safety, programme, and budgets on assigned tasks.

What We’re Looking For

This role is perfect for you if you have:

• A minimum of 5 years' post-graduate experience in highways design.
• A degree in Civil / Highways / Transportation Engineering.
• CEng / IEng (or working towards) with ICE, CIHT, or IHE.
• Strong knowledge of highway geometry, pavements, drainage, signs & road markings, and VRS (including RRRAP).
• Experience using AutoCAD, Civils 3D, AutoTrack, MicroDrainage, KeyLines / KeySigns.
• A sound understanding of CDM, H&S, and risk assessments.
• A CSCS card, SMSTS (or equivalent).
• Excellent communication, organisational, and commercial awareness.
• A full UK driving licence.

Why Join Us?

We’re proud to offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Here’s what you can look forward to:

• Competitive salary and flexible working hours.
• A supportive and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Kier, we prioritize making our workplace diverse and inclusive. Our employees play a vital role in shaping our diversity initiatives, and we’re committed to continuous improvement. As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure that a fair number of disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check will be required. We treat all applicants fairly, regardless of their conviction history.

Ready to embark on this exciting journey with us? We can’t wait to see your application and welcome you to our team!