Engineer

Kier Group plc; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Birmingham is seeking a Highways Engineer to design and prepare detailed designs for highway and infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Civil Engineering and relevant post-graduate experience in highways design. You will work closely with senior staff to undertake feasibility studies and prepare technical drawings. Attractive benefits are offered, including a market-leading pension scheme and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Market-leading development opportunities

Matched pension scheme

Share incentive plans

Generous holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil Engineering, Highways Engineering or Transportation.
• Relevant post-graduate experience in highways design.
• Experience with AutoCAD and related software.

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Leader and Senior Engineer in design projects.
• Conduct feasibility studies and detailed design of schemes.
• Prepare technical drawings and contribute to tender documents.

Skills

AutoCAD

KeySigns

KeyLines

AutoTrack

Civils 3D

Microdrainage

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering, Highways Engineering or Transportation

Post-graduate experience in highways design

Job description

We\'re looking for a Highways Engineer to join our Birmingham team based in Birmingham. Kier Design are a top-25engineering 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. Withinthis role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Location: Birmingham - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.

Hours: 37.5 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

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 highwaysdesign, charteredor 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\u0026I 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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