Engineer

KIER GROUP; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

KIER GROUP is seeking an Engineer – Drainage and Water to join their Design team. This role involves delivering high-quality drainage and water solutions across various projects while contributing to design coordination. The successful candidate will have demonstrable technical competence in Drainage & Water engineering and experience in applying relevant design standards. The position offers remote working options with occasional office travel. The company promotes diversity and offers tailored benefits.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable technical competence in Drainage & Water engineering.
• Experience delivering tasks across one or more sectors.
• Hold a full driving license and willing to travel.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assigned tasks within work packages to a high standard.
• Apply relevant design standards and regulations consistently.
• Manage delivery of individual tasks within programme and budget.

Skills

Drainage & Water engineering

Technical competence

Design standards application

Autonomous task execution

Job description

Location:

Exeter, Ipswich, or Salford – remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.

Hours:

37.5 per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

What will you be responsible for?

As an Engineer – Drainage and Water, you'll be working within the Design team, supporting them in delivering compliant and sustainable drainage and water solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high‑quality, sustainable drainage and water solutions across a range of projects. You'll support the design lead on assigned work packages, contributing to design coordination and helping to ensure programme, budget, and risk commitments are met. The role includes providing technical input to the team, sharing knowledge, and supporting early‑career engineers where required, whilst maintaining consistent standards and best practice in delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Delivering assigned tasks within work packages to a high standard, taking ownership of technical outputs
• Applying relevant design standards, regulations, and quality processes consistently
• Managing the delivery of individual tasks within programme and budget, escalating issues and proposing solutions
• Working collaboratively with multi‑disciplinary teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners
• Contributing to knowledge sharing and technical development within the team, and providing guidance to early‑career engineers

What are we looking for?

This role of Engineer – Drainage and Water is great for you if:

• You have demonstrable technical competence in Drainage & Water engineering, with experience delivering tasks across one or more sectors
• You can work autonomously at a task level, taking ownership of technical outputs whilst supporting wider package delivery
• You have experience applying relevant design standards, regulations, and quality processes consistently
• You're aware of programme, budget, and risk considerations for assigned tasks, escalating issues appropriately
• You hold a full driving licence and are willing to travel as required

Rewards and benefits

We are proud to offer a wide variety of benefits that can be tailored to your needs. For more information, see our benefits page.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We are proud of the steps we have taken so far, and we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, and they have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. We have a Disability Confident employer status and will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Application

We look forward to seeing your application to join Kier.