Design Engineer
Join Our Team as a Highways and Drainage Design Engineer!
Are you ready to take your engineering career to the next level? We’re on the lookout for passionate Highways and Drainage Engineers to join our dynamic team across various locations in the UK!
Location & Flexibility
Choose from exciting locations including:
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Cambridge
- Cardiff
- Glasgow
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- London
- Manchester
- Newcastle
- Norwich
- Plymouth
Enjoy agile working with the option to work from home 1-2 days a week!
Work Hours & Salary
Work 40 hours a week with flexible hours available. Starting salary is £40k per annum.
About Us
Join one of the UK’s leaders in temporary works design and management! As part of our 100-strong team, you’ll engage in hundreds of projects across a diverse and high-profile portfolio, tapping into Kier’s impressive £11bn+ project pipeline. Be part of supporting complex construction and major infrastructure schemes from concept to delivery!
Are You…
- Practically-minded with a solid grounding in highways and drainage engineering principles?
- Working towards Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer status (CEng or IEng) or have equivalent experience?
Do You…
- Enjoy tackling real-world construction challenges with a focus on safety, sustainability, and innovation?
- Have experience in temporary works design and/or management?
- Possess strong organizational and communication skills, thriving in collaborative teams?
- Want to be part of a top-25 engineering consultancy recognized as one of Glassdoor’s 50 best places to work?
Your Responsibilities
As a Highways and Drainage Design Engineer, you will:
- Deliver a range of complex construction engineering services, including highways and drainage temporary works design and checking.
- Review permanent designs for compliance and buildability.
- Support tenders and preconstruction planning.
- Provide technical support to resolve construction-stage and post-construction issues.
Main Responsibilities
- Produce, check, and review design outputs such as calculations, sketches, drawings, 3D models, reports, and risk assessments.
- Act as Project Lead for simpler projects, managing technical scope, programme, budget, and relationships from bid through to delivery.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of processes and systems to meet current and future challenges.
Rewards and Benefits
We’re proud to offer a variety of benefits tailored to your needs. Discover more about our benefits package!
Diversity and Inclusion
At Kier, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace is a top priority. We value the contributions of all our employees in shaping our diversity and inclusion initiatives. As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure that a fair number of disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria will be offered an interview.
We can’t wait to see your application! Join us and be part of something great at Kier!
