Engineering Director

Kier Group; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking an Engineering Director for the ILIOS team based at West Burton, Nottinghamshire. You will provide senior engineering leadership, own design integrity and engineering assurance while guiding buildability across the STEP programme.

You will develop strategies for engineering, systems integration and innovation, and act as the technical authority on governance and design assurance, ensuring safe, compliant outputs across multi‑organisation teams.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in engineering or equivalent
• Chartered membership of a relevant professional institution
• Significant senior leadership experience across major multi-disciplinary environments
• Proven capability in leading technical functions and engineering assurance
• Strong understanding of risk, compliance, temporary works governance, constructability and safety-led design

Responsibilities

• Provide overall engineering leadership, owning design integrity, systems integration and technical innovation
• Develop and implement strategies, policies and procedures across ILIOS
• Lead engineering assurance and technical integrity while translating outputs into safe, buildable works packages
• Act as Temporary Works Designated Individual with competent appointments and assurance
• Build and develop engineering capability across ILIOS and promote collaborative ways of working

Skills

Degree in engineering

Chartered membership

Senior leadership experience

Technical risk & compliance

Strong communication

Education

Degree-level qualification in engineering

Chartered membership of a relevant professional institution

Job description

We're looking for an Engineering Director to join our ILIOS team based in West Burton, Nottinghamshire.

Location: West Burton, Nottinghamshire
Hours: Full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exceptional opportunity to provide senior engineering leadership across a major programme, where you'll own design integrity, engineering assurance and buildability across the ILIOS solution. As Engineering Director, you'll ensure technical outputs are safe, compliant, cost effective and integrated, acting as the Programme Director's technical authority on engineering governance and design assurance.

What will you be responsible for?

As an Engineering Director, you'll be working within the ILIOS Leadership team, supporting them in delivering safe, compliant and integrated engineering solutions for the STEP programme. Your day to day will include:

• Providing overall engineering leadership, owning design integrity, systems integration and technical innovation to ensure outputs are safe, compliant and aligned to programme requirements
• Developing and implementing engineering, systems integration, assurance and innovation strategies, policies and procedures across ILIOS
• Leading engineering assurance and technical integrity while supporting translation of approved engineering outputs into safe, buildable works packages
• Acting as Temporary Works Designated Individual, ensuring competent appointments, effective procedures and assurance arrangements are in place
• Building and developing engineering capability across ILIOS, promoting consistent ways of working and effective collaboration across partner organisations

What are we looking for?

This role of Engineering Director is great for you if:

• You hold a degree-level qualification or equivalent in engineering or another relevant technical discipline, along with Chartered membership of a relevant professional institution
• You have significant senior leadership experience across major multi-disciplinary engineering, construction, infrastructure, nuclear, energy or complex programme environments
• You bring proven capability in leading technical functions, design management and engineering assurance across multi-disciplinary and multi-organisation teams
• You demonstrate strong understanding of technical risk, compliance, temporary works governance, constructability and safety-led design principles
• You're a collaborative and credible senior leader with excellent communication skills, able to present complex technical matters clearly to executive and non-technical audiences

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a BPSS Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.