Senior Technology Design Engineer

Join Our Team as a Senior Technology Design Engineer!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We’re on the lookout for a Senior Technology Design Engineer to join our dynamic Technology Design team in one of our vibrant locations: Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, or Basingstoke. With agile working opportunities, you can enjoy flexibility while making a significant impact in the world of highways technology!

Location & Hours

Location: Manchester/Newcastle/Birmingham or Basingstoke – with agile working opportunity

Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Compensation

Starting Salary: From £42,000 per annum

About the Role

As a Senior Technology Design Engineer, you will lead the delivery and assurance of cutting-edge highways technology solutions across major infrastructure programmes. You’ll be the technical authority, owning design outputs from concept to implementation, ensuring that our solutions are compliant, integrated, and future-ready.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of complex technology designs (ITS, communications, power) from concept through to implementation.
• Own design outputs, ensuring solutions are buildable, maintainable, and right-first-time.
• Act as a technical authority within design assurance, leading reviews, checks, and gateway approvals.
• Ensure compliance with DMRB, National Highways, and industry standards while managing technical risk.
• Provide SME leadership across ITS, communications networks, and smart infrastructure systems.
• Drive multidisciplinary integration across civil, electrical, mechanical, and systems teams.
• Act as a key technical interface for clients, leading workshops and stakeholder engagement.
• Support programme delivery through reporting on progress, risk, and performance.
• Drive continuous improvement, digital engineering, and BIM adoption.
• Lead input into bids, developing innovative, compliant, and competitive solutions.
• Mentor and develop engineers, building team capability and a high-performance culture.

What We’re Looking For

This role is perfect for you if you:

• Are Degree-qualified in Electrical, Electronic, Communications, or Technology Engineering.
• Have significant experience in highways or infrastructure technology design.
• Have proven experience leading design delivery and assurance activities.
• Possess strong knowledge of National Highways standards and governance frameworks.
• Have technical expertise in:
• ITS infrastructure and systems integration.
• Telecommunications and IP networks.
• Power and control systems.
• Design assurance and approval processes.
• Multidisciplinary coordination and systems integration.

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. We believe that our employees play a crucial role in shaping our diversity and inclusion initiatives. As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure that a fair number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check. We treat applicants with convictions on a case-by-case basis and do not discriminate based on conviction history.

Are you ready to make a difference? We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier!