Job Description
We're looking for a Highways Engineer to join our Birmingham team based in Birmingham. 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.
Location: Birmingham - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - hybrid working with 2 days per week in our Birmingham office
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role
What will you be responsible for?
As a Highways Engineer, you'll be working within the Highways team, supporting the Team Leader and Senior Engineer in development and preparation of concept, preliminary and detailed design of a range of highway and infrastructure projects.
Your day to day will include:
• Undertaking feasibility studies and detailed design of highway maintenance schemes using AutoCAD
• Collaborating with other design disciplines in Common Data Environments
• Developing engineering options with consideration to safety, reliability, and environmental factors
• Preparing technical drawings, specifications and design calculations
• Contributing to fee estimates, design programmes and tender documents
What are we looking for?
This role of Highways Engineer is great for you if:
• You have a degree in Civil Engineering, Highways Engineering or Transportation
• You relevant post-graduate experience in highways design, chartered or incorporated (or working towards it) with ICE, CIHT or IHE
• You're experienced with AutoCAD, KeySigns, KeyLines, AutoTrack, Civils 3D, or Microdrainage
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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