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. With a hybrid working model, you’ll enjoy the flexibility of working two days a week in our office.

Location & Hours

Location: Birmingham/Northampton – Hybrid working model

Hours: 40 hours per week (flexibility available)

Salary

Starting from: £35,000 per annum

Your Role

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

Are You the One?

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has strong experience in delivering highway design to DMRB and local authority standards.
• Is degree-qualified in Civil, Highways, or Transportation Engineering.
• Is CEng or IEng (or working towards) with ICE, CIHT, or IHE.
• Is confident in producing design calculations, drawings, and contract packages using AutoCAD and highways software.
• Has knowledge of highway geometry, drainage, pavements, signs/markings, and VRS.

Your Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• 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, considering safety, buildability, sustainability, and whole-life cost.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams using Common Data Environments.
• Undertake site visits, surveys, and provide 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 agreed 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, or 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).
• Strong communication, organisational, and commercial awareness.
• A full UK driving licence.

Rewards and Benefits

We’re proud to offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Join us and enjoy:

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

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. Please note that this role requires a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check, and we treat all applicants fairly, regardless of their conviction history.

We can’t wait to see your application and hope you’ll #joinkier!