Principal Engineer

KIER GROUP; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Cambridge is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead its Construction Engineering team. This role involves overseeing project delivery, managing engineers and ensuring technical compliance in a range of construction projects. The ideal candidate will have chartered engineer status and significant experience in a similar role. The position offers competitive benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Market-leading development opportunities

Competitive holiday entitlement

Matched pension scheme

Qualifications

• Chartered member of relevant professional institutions, such as CEng MICE.
• Significant relevant experience in a similar role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of complex construction engineering services.
• Oversee production of design deliverables and ensure technical compliance.
• Provide leadership to direct and indirect reports.

Skills

Chartered engineer status

Leadership

Civil engineering expertise

Job description

We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Design team based in Waterbeach. Kier Design is a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

Our 100-strong Construction Engineering capability brings together a team of talented civil, structural and geotechnical engineers from a range of backgrounds, combining complex analysis, spatial design and an eye for the practical to deliver buildable solutions on site. We specialise in reimagining permanent designs to make them more buildable, designing temporary works and traffic management solutions, advising on the procedural management of temporary works, construction materials, ground engineering and surveying.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams. And we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. We offer market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. And we actively promote so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Location

Waterbeach, South Cambridgeshire

Hours

40 hours 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 a Principal Engineer, you'll be working within the Construction Engineering team, supporting Kier in contributing to the delivery of a broad range of complex construction engineering services, leading the delivery of some services, providing solutions which are safe and buildable.

Your day to day will include:

• Agreeing technical requirements of the client remit, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary, leading the development of fee proposals for review in accordance with delegated authority policy, organising and leading the day‑to‑day workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team, ensuring technical compliance of the design to the remit, ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and company policies / procedures, including CDM Regulations, the Kier SHE Management System (SHEMS) and design Quality Management System (QMS).
• Overseeing and contributing to the production of design deliverables, including calculations, drawings, reports and design risk assessments, identifying and assessing technical opportunities for value engineering, implementing them with suitable approval, developing and building a positive relationship with the client / design / site teams supporting fulfilment of contractual obligations and meeting or exceeding Kier Design and Kier customer expectations, being the lead representative at project and progress meetings with clients, as required, from remit development through to lessons learned, managing the financial and commercial aspects of the project with the support of Engineering Manager and Commercial Manager, monitoring progress against, and ensuring the project is delivered to, agreed programme and budget.
• Provide leadership to direct and indirect reports, supporting Engineering Manager and Head of Construction Engineering, implementing and complying with Kier policies and procedures for functional governance, conducting staff inductions and performance reviews for direct reports, managing team workload, maximising personal utilisation and project efficiency, ensuring the timely completion and submission of timesheets, reviewing timesheets and approving time off for direct reports, recognising, promoting, encouraging, implementing and contributing to best practice within Kier Design, developing a culture of excellence, acting as an ambassador for Kier Design at all times and ensuring that Kier Design is the consultant of first choice and embodies the values of Kier.
• Understanding the social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities of the professional engineer, recognising the need for sustainable development, staying abreast of design developments in health & safety, innovation, sustainability, diversity and implementing them as appropriate, maintaining own continuing professional development, improving skills in management and / or a design / technical / professional specialism, maintaining membership of a professional body and contributing to forums and industry best practice groups, taking responsibility for developing own digital competency, as described in the Kier Design Digital Competency Framework., identifying current level and actively seeking to reach the next level, encouraging and assisting in the development of all staff within Kier Design.
• Maintaining relationships with peers ensuring the transfer of knowledge / skills, promoting the engineering profession, and taking on a supervisory Civil Engineer or equivalent role, developing and reviewing engineering methods and software, including design or assessment spreadsheets and / or calculation templates for use within Kier Design with a view to increasing overall quality and efficiency, marketing all Kier Design competencies to generate new/repeat business whenever possible.

What are we looking for?

This role of Principal Engineer is great for you if:

• Chartered member of relevant professional institutions (e.g. CEng MICE) and practical industry relevant experience.
• Working in a similar role with significant relevant experience at this level.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier.

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