Principal Traffic Management Designer

Kier Group plc; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Principal Traffic Management Designer to support the Construction Engineering team. The role involves checking and approving traffic management plans, leading design compliance initiatives, and ensuring legal and policy adherence. Ideal candidates will possess appropriate qualifications and significant experience in traffic management at a principal level, along with leadership skills. The position offers benefits tailored to your needs and opportunities for personal and team growth.

Qualifications

• Completed IEng Initial Professional Development (or CEng equivalent) with relevant professional institution.
• Knowledge of traffic management from a design perspective at a Principal level.
• Significant relevant experience and ability to travel.

Responsibilities

• Check and approve temporary traffic management plans.
• Lead development of fee proposals and manage workload.
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements and company policies.
• Develop and review engineering methods and software.

Skills

Traffic management knowledge

Leadership skills

Civil Engineering knowledge

Education

IEng Initial Professional Development or equivalent

Level 6 or Level 7 qualifications

Job description

Location

Nationwide

Hours

45 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As a PrincipalTraffic Management Designer, you'll be working within the Construction Engineering team, supporting Kier in contributing to the delivery of a broad range of complex construction engineering services, leading the delivery of some services, providing solutions which are safe and buildable.

Your day to day will include:

• Checking and approval of temporary traffic management (TTM) plans for low-speed and high-speed designs, design and checking of low speed TTM designs, producing of some high speed TTM designs, under appropriate supervision
• Agreeing technical requirements of the client remit, ensuring it is fully understood, questioning and challenging where necessary, leading the development of fee proposals for review in accordance with delegated authority policy, organising and leading the day-to-day workload of engineers and technical staff within the design team, ensuring technical compliance of the design to the remit
• Ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies / procedures, including CDM Regulations, the Kier SHE Management System (SHEMS) and design Quality Management System (QMS), overseeing and contribute to the production of design deliverables, including calculations, drawings, reports and design risk assessments, identifying and assessing technical opportunities for value engineering, implementing them with suitable approval, developing and building a positive relationship with the client / design / site teams that supports fulfilment of contractual obligations
• Provide leadership to direct and indirect reports, supporting Head of Construction Engineering, implementing and complying with Kier policies and procedures for functional governance, conducting staff inductions and performance reviews for direct reports, managing team workload, maximising personal utilisation and project efficiency
• Developing and reviewing engineering methods and software, including design or assessment spreadsheets and / or calculation templates for use within Kier Design with a view to increasing overall quality and efficiency

What are we looking for?

This role of PrincipalTraffic Management Designer is great for you if:

• You have completed IEng InitialProfessionalDevelopment(or CEngequivalentprogress)witha relevantprofessionalinstitution(e.g. ICE)
• Knowledge of traffic management from a Design point of view at a Principal level, hold Level 6 or Level 7qualifications and significant relevant experience
• Able to travel to offices and sites across various areas

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.

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Job Description

• Job Description - Principal Traffic Management Designer - Construction Engineering - Nationwide.pdf