Head of Site Engineering

Kier Group plc.; Bole; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group plc. seeks a Head of Site Engineering for the West Burton site in Nottinghamshire. You will act as the technical controlling mind, leading integration across civil, utilities, and site interfaces, and ensuring design intent is preserved through delivery and lifecycle.

You will establish governance, assurance plans, and risk controls, champion safe-by-design, and build a multidisciplinary engineering team while engaging with senior stakeholders to drive a best-for-programme approach.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, systems, nuclear or related engineering.
• Chartered Engineer with a professional institution.
• Proven experience as technical authority, chief engineer or system architect on a complex safety-critical programme.
• Experience leading multi-organisation engineering teams and obtaining security clearance.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical controlling mind and site engineering authority for West Burton.
• Lead end-to-end technical integration across civil works, utilities, site layout, and interfaces.
• Establish site engineering governance, standards, assurance plans and records.
• Champion safe-by-design and health-by-design principles.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary site engineering capability and represent IPT5 engineering in governance forums.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to ensure design intent is preserved through lifecycle.
• Maintain security clearance and site-access requirements.

Skills

Engineering governance

Technical assurance

Verification and validation

Change control

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Chartered Engineer

Degree-level qualification in civil/structural/mechanical/electrical/systems/nuclear engineering

Job description

Join ILIOS, the Construction Partner for the UK's STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) fusion programme - a world-leading initiative to design and build a prototype fusion energy power plant at West Burton in Nottinghamshire. As Head of Site Engineering, you'll work across organisational and technical boundaries as the technical controlling mind and system architect for the West Burton site, promoting a best-for-programme approach that integrates design intent with delivery, assurance, digital information, commercial and operational requirements. What will you be responsible for? As a Head of Site Engineering, you'll be working within the IPT5 team, supporting them in delivering a coherent, controlled and integrated site and infrastructure architecture. Your day to day will include:

• Acting as the technical controlling mind and recognised site engineering authority, accountable for the fitness for purpose and whole-system integrity of the West Burton site and infrastructure design
• Leading end-to-end technical integration across civil works, structures, utilities, site layout, transport and logistics interfaces, and enabling systems
• Establishing and enforcing proportionate site engineering governance, standards, review arrangements, assurance plans and technical decision records
• Championing safe-by-design and health-by-design principles, ensuring hazards are eliminated or reduced and significant residual risks are communicated
• Building, leading and developing a multidisciplinary site engineering capability, setting clear technical accountabilities and representing IPT5 engineering in governance forums and senior stakeholder engagements
  You hold a degree-level qualification in civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, systems, nuclear or another relevant engineering discipline, and are a Chartered Engineer with an appropriate professional institution
• You have substantial experience acting as a technical authority, chief engineer, system architect or senior engineering leader on a complex, safety-critical programme
• You possess proven systems-thinking and design-integration capability across multidisciplinary infrastructure, site or plant systems, with demonstrable experience of defining and preserving design intent across the project lifecycle
• You bring strong knowledge of engineering governance, technical assurance, verification and validation, design maturity, change control and acceptance evidence, along with experience of regulated major infrastructure, nuclear, energy, defence, rail or comparable high-consequence environments
• You have proven leadership of multi-organisation and matrixed engineering teams, excellent communication skills with the credibility to challenge and influence senior groups, and the ability to obtain and maintain applicable security clearance and site-access requirements
  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.