Engineer

Keepmoat Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK housebuilder is seeking a Construction Engineer to join their Yorkshire West region office in Leeds. This permanent, full-time role involves providing engineering strategies for land and development, ensuring accurate technical input for planning applications, and managing budgets. Ideal candidates will have strong mathematical skills, experience in house building design, and excellent communication abilities. Offering competitive pay, bonuses, and development opportunities, this position promotes a proactive approach to engineering solutions.

Benefits

Competitive rates of pay

Bonus Scheme

Special offers for staff

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of technical and engineering aspects of house building design.
• Experience of living within a UK housebuilder or equivalent.
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and engineering aspects of house building design.
• Lead the engineering strategy with the land team.
• Manage budget and direct external consultants.
• Influence others and take ownership of projects.

Skills

Strong mathematical ability

Good understanding of budget management

Excellent communication skills

Methodical approach to working practices

Experience of leading engineering strategy in a team

Confident decision maker

Job description

Overview

Keepmoat Homes is a fast growing top 10 UK housebuilder. We design and build quality homes and create places where people want to live. Our investment and participation helps transform communities and improves the lives of local people. We have a national presence combined with local knowledge and expertise in all aspects of housing – from finance, design and planning, to developing and building. Our comprehensive skills and capabilities give us a wider perspective across the whole housing lifecycle and we create lower risk ways of building homes people need. For more than 90 years our work has been absolutely visible to local communities so being part of the community is in our DNA. We hire local suppliers and tradespeople and work with local communities to make sure that our plans meet their needs.

Main purpose of the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our Yorkshire West region, based from our regional office in Leeds. As our construction Engineer, you will provide lean but robust engineering strategies as part of an established, successful land and development team. The role will be working primarily with the land team to de‑risk bids and support the due diligence process for land acquisition approval. This will include technical reporting and providing strategies for drainage, cut & fill, retaining walls, foundations, and utilities. Support with groundworks estimating and procurement will also be provided. You will then support planning applications with the necessary technical input and engineering strategy. External engineers will be utilised where necessary to add detail to the proposed strategy for checking and presentation purposes. The engineering strategy will be handed over to the technical team for the detailed design stage. The role requires the production of accurate value engineered information delivered in line with agreed programmes and budgets.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical and engineering aspects of house building design
• Apply in-depth understanding of Highway & Sewer Standards
• Lead the engineering strategy and work within a residential housebuilder or equivalent
• Add value to engineering solutions and understand changes to regulations and legislation
• Analyse complex data and critically evaluate plans
• Manage budget and direct external consultants
• Influence and persuade others and take ownership of projects
• Support the land team with due diligence review and delivery of technical and engineering information required for land appraisals and acquisition
• Establish engineering principles and strategy on all sites

Qualifications & Skills

• Strong mathematical ability
• Good understanding of budget management
• Accurate with an eye for detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Work under pressure and with a high degree of accuracy
• Methodical approach to working practices
• Confident decision maker with pragmatic problem solving
• A self‑starter capable of creating and maintaining momentum in projects
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
• Experience of technical and engineering aspects of house building design
• Experience of leading engineering strategy in a team
• Experience of living within a UK housebuilder or equivalent

Benefits

• Competitive rates of pay – we regularly check our pay against our competitors to make sure they reflect our position as market leader. We also review our pay every year.
• Bonus Scheme – our annual bonus scheme is linked to team and company performance.
• Special offers for staff – a range of offers and discounts exclusively for our employees including holidays, health club memberships and days out.
• Trust – we encourage you to come up with ideas and get the most out of your job with us.
• Development – genuine development opportunities to progress your career.

Our values

• Straightforward – we get the job done efficiently and effectively. We are friendly, open and honest.
• Collaborative – we work together in partnership to deliver the very best customer experience.
• Passionate – we care about what we do. We put pride and energy into delivering results.
• Creative – proactive, flexible and resourceful. We listen, learn and deliver solutions.

Reference:KMH/YW/1694
Hours:37.5 Hours, Monday to Friday
Location:Leeds, LS11 8PG
Employer:Keepmoat Homes, Yorkshire West
Job type:Permanent, Full Time
Closing date:24/12/2025