We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Highways Design team based in Salford. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.
Location: Salford, Greater Manchester
Hours: 37.5 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 Engineer, you’ll be working within the Civil Engineering team, supporting them on the National Highways Scheme Delivery 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, producing design 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 delivering 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 reporting regularly on progress towards milestones, overseeing and mentoring 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?
* Member of a professional body, IEng / CEng status or working towards it.
* Competent and a strong working knowledge of civil engineering design 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.
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