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Principal design engineer

Salford
Kier
Design engineer
Posted: 26 September
Offer description

We're looking for a Principal Design Engineer to join our Design team based in Salford. You'll utilise your extensive experience in delivering successful flood, water management, and drainage projects to achieve exceptional outcomes for a diverse range of clients, including National Highways, local authorities, water industry clients, and significant major projects like the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine. Your dedication to continuous improvement and development will ensure excellence across all projects.



Location: Salford - Office based with some remote working available

Salary: £50,000 - £57,500 + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits



Responsibilities

As Principal Design Engineer, you'll be responsible for leading a team of skilled designers in delivering high-value, high-quality drainage schemes, supporting the Drainage Design Manager in executing the drainage strategy.

Your day to day will include:

Maintaining the highest standards of quality and project controls established by the team and wider business

Applying the latest design standards and lessons learnt to projects

Liaising with statutory and non-statutory bodies obtaining relevant data, licences, and consents

Driving technical excellence and continued improvement across the team

Monitoring project delivery and undertaking change control management



What are we looking for?

This role of Principal Design Engineer is great if you have:

Civil Engineering degree - or a similar combination of qualifications and / or experience

Proven expertise in a similar role and successfully leading teams to deliver projects

Project management qualification and / or experience



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. .



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. .



Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.



We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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