Senior Highways & Drainage Engineer

Jobs4; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Design is seeking a Senior Highways & Drainage Engineer to join our team across multiple locations in the UK, with agile working and up to 1–2 days from home. Based in Cardiff/Birmingham/Bristol or other cities, you will lead design delivery from concept through to delivery while maintaining safety and constructability.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and provide temporary works design solutions, supporting bid activities and client relationships.

Qualifications

• Incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. IEng MICE).
• Experience in highways and drainage engineering with demonstrable technical expertise.
• Confident in leading design projects and managing multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading temporary works design and checking with a focus on highways and drainage solutions.
• Providing tender and bid support including outline designs, feasibility studies and value engineering.
• Managing design projects from remit development through to delivery, ensuring technical compliance.
• Leading and organising the workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team.
• Building strong client relationships and representing Kier at project meetings.

Skills

Highways & drainage engineering

Design project leadership

Temporary works design & checking

Stakeholder management

Education

Incorporated member of a professional institution (e.g. IEng/MICE)

Job description

Job Description

We're looking for a SeniorHighways & Drainage Engineer to join our team based in various locations. Kier Design are a highly regarded Tier 1 Contractor, with a 750 plus strong design consultancy team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor.Join us as a Senior Highways and Drainage Engineer and become part of one of the UK's leaders in temporary works design and management and construction-related technical services. As part of our 100-strong team, you'll get to work on hundreds of projects across one of the most diverse and high-profile portfolios in the country, with access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline – supporting complex construction and major infrastructure schemes from concept through to delivery.

Location: Birmingham / Bristol / Cambridge / Cardiff / Glasgow / Leeds / Liverpool / London / Manchester / Newcastle / Norwich / Plymouth – agile working, with up to 1-2 days per week from home if desired
Hours: 40 hours per week - 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.

Are you…

• An Incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. IEng MICE) with relevant experience
• Experienced in highways and drainage engineering with demonstrable technical expertise
• Confident in leading design projects and managing multidisciplinary teams
• Skilled in temporary works design, checking, and providing technical solutions
• Able to build positive relationships with clients and stakeholders

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Highways & Drainage Engineer, you'll be working within the team, supporting them in delivering construction engineering services that are safe, innovative and buildable. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of construction engineering services, focusing on highways and drainage solutions. You'll play a key role in providing safe, buildable solutions across temporary and permanent works design, supporting bid winning activities, and contributing to technical excellence. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, you'll help shape innovative approaches while mentoring others and building strong client relationships. This role offers the chance to make a real impact through your technical expertise and leadership, creating solutions that benefit communities and support sustainable development.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading temporary works design and checking with a focus on highways and drainage solutions
• Providing tender and bid support including outline designs, feasibility studies and value engineering
• Managing design projects from remit development through to delivery, ensuring technical compliance
• Leading and organising the workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team
• Building strong client relationships and representing Kier at project meetings

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.