Principal Traffic Management Designer

Kier Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A top-25 engineering consultancy is seeking a Principal Management Designer to join their team. The role involves leading complex construction engineering services, particularly in traffic management. Candidates should have significant experience, IEng Initial Professional Development, and the ability to ensure compliance with legal requirements. The role offers a chance to work on major projects with a strong team focus on innovation and sustainable solutions.

Benefits

Competitive annual holiday entitlement

Matched pension scheme

Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Qualifications

• Completed IEng Initial Professional Development with a relevant professional institution.
• Significant relevant experience in traffic management at a Principal level.
• Ability to travel to offices and sites across various areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex construction engineering services and TTM plans.
• Manage day-to-day workload of engineers and technical staff.
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements and company policies.
• Develop and review engineering methods and software.

Skills

Traffic management knowledge

Leadership skills

Compliance with legal requirements

Project management

Education

IEng Initial Professional Development or CEng equivalent

Level 6 or Level 7 qualifications

Job description

We're looking for a Principal Management Designer to join our Design team based Nationwide. 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.

Kier Design are 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.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams. We want to help you carve out a role in which you’ll grow and thrive for many years to come, offering 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. Actively promoting 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: Nationwide

Hours: 45 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 Traffic Management Designer, 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, and providing solutions which are safe and buildable.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Checking and approving temporary traffic management (TTM) plans for low-speed and high-speed designs, designing and checking of low‑speed TTM designs, producing some high‑speed TTM designs, under appropriate supervision.
• 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, and 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 that supports fulfilment of contractual obligations.
• Providing leadership to direct and indirect reports, supporting the 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.
• 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.

What are we looking for?

This role of Principal Traffic Management Designer is great for you if:

• You have completed IEng Initial Professional Development (or CEng equivalent progress) with a relevant professional institution (e.g. ICE).
• You possess knowledge of traffic management from a Design point of view at a Principal level, hold Level 6 or Level 7 qualifications and significant relevant experience.
• You are able to travel to offices and sites across various areas.

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.