Senior Highways Design Engineer

Kier Group; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Highways Design Engineer in Salford to join the Civil Engineering team. You will deliver highway designs, drawings, and supporting documentation for the National Highways Scheme Delivery Framework, working with local and national authorities.

The role emphasizes technical excellence, collaboration with clients, and mentoring junior staff while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Member of IEng/CEng status or working towards it.
• Strong working knowledge of civil engineering design software, e.g., AutoCAD.

Responsibilities

• Prepare preliminary and detailed highway designs per procedures for local and national authorities.
• Deliver technical and feasibility studies meeting client specifications.
• Assess risks, materials and costs; ensure compliance with guidelines and regulations.
• Contribute to technical excellence, provide innovative engineering solutions; mentor junior staff.
• Maintain good client relations and attend meetings; promote health and safety on site.

Skills

Highways design

Civil engineering

Team coordination

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Highways Design Engineer to join our Highways Design team based in Salford.

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., weactively promote, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself.

Location: Salford, Greater Manchester

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 Senior Highways Design Engineer, you'll be working within theCivil Engineering team,supporting them on the National Highways SchemeDelivery Framework contract producing highways designs, drawings, reports and documentation in accordance with the brief, timescales and budgetary allocation.

Your day to day will include:

• Preparing preliminary and detailed designs in accordance with approved design procedures for local and national authorities, providing support to the Principal Engineer of the design team on various design duties including but not limited to, producingdesign schedules, health, safety and welfare contract documentation in accordance with the Construction, Design & Management Regulations 2015 Design drawings and associated documents
• Delivering technical and feasibility studies that satisfy client's technical specifications
• Assessing potential risks,materials, and costs, complying with Kier's & client's guidelines and regulations including permits, safety etc and deliver technical files and other technical documentation as required, conducting on site investigations and analysing data (maps, reports, tests, drawings and other)
• Contributing towards technical excellence and innovation across the team, providing innovative solutions to engineering problems, complying with Kier's SHEMS and KDTS IMS, agreeing delivery targets and report regularly on progress towards milestones, overseeing and mentor junior staff
• Maintaining good relations with clients and other authorities, attending meetings as necessary, promoting health & safety in the workplace, setting a good example to other employees

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Highways Design Engineeris great for you if:

• Are a memberof aprofessional body, IEng / CEng status or working towards
• Competent and a strong working knowledge of civil engineeringdesign software e.g AutoCAD

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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