We're looking for a Design Engineer to join our River Infrastructure team based in Bristol.
Location:
Bristol - some agile working Hours:
37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Salary:
Starting from £36,000 per annum
Sector:
Design – Civils River Infrastructure
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
As a Design Engineer, you'll join Kier Design's growing River Infrastructure team, delivering meaningful civil and river engineering projects for clients including the Environment Agency, Severn Trent, and the Mining Remediation Authority. This role offers you the opportunity to contribute to vital infrastructure schemes whilst developing your technical expertise within a supportive consultancy environment.
Are you…
A Civil Engineer with experience in river engineering or hydraulic infrastructure?
Comfortable delivering safe, buildable design solutions within a multidisciplinary environment?
Confident using engineering judgement to manage uncertainty and technical risk?
Experienced working within a consultancy or contractor‑led design environment?
Passionate about working for a collaborative, trusted and delivery‑focused organisation?
Do you…
Hold a degree (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering or a related discipline?
Bring post‑graduate experience in hydraulic structures, river engineering or similar?
Be working towards Chartered or Incorporated status (e.g. CEng MICE)?
Enjoy learning, developing and working in new technical areas with team support?
Contribute to fee proposals, value engineering and commercial delivery?
Want to work for a highly regarded Main Contractor, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor?
What will you be responsible for?
As a Design Engineer, you'll be working within the River Infrastructure team, supporting them in delivering compliant, safe, and buildable design solutions for civil and river engineering projects. Your day-to-day will include:
Delivering civil and river infrastructure design from feasibility through to detailed design
Reviewing and agreeing client briefs, offering alternative solutions where appropriate
Supporting coordination of design activities within multidisciplinary project teams
Ensuring compliance with CDM Regulations, Kier SHEMS, and QMS requirements
Contributing to value engineering, fee proposals, and programme delivery
What are we looking for?
This role of Design Engineer is great for you if:
You have a degree (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering or a related discipline
You bring post-graduate experience in hydraulic structures, river engineering, or similar infrastructure
You're working towards Chartered or Incorporated status (e.g. CEng MICE)
You enjoy collaborating within multidisciplinary teams and can apply sound engineering judgement to manage technical risk
You hold a Full driving licence
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
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.