Senior Engineer

Kier Group plc; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in London is seeking a Senior Engineer for their Highways team. You will lead highway projects, demonstrating expertise in highway geometry, pavement design, and drainage systems. The ideal candidate will be experienced with UK legislation, and TfL Streetscape standards. This position offers a competitive salary, benefits package, and the opportunity to work both on-site and remotely.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Flexible working hours

Tailored benefits package

Qualifications

• Significant practical experience in design consultancy.
• In-depth understanding of current UK standards and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Designing, assessing, and delivering highway projects.
• Managing multi-disciplinary project inputs.
• Conducting site visits and inspections.

Skills

Highway geometry

Pavement design

Drainage systems

DMRB compliance

TfL Streetscape standards

Education

Incorporated member of a relevant professional institution

Chartered with ICE or equivalent

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Highways team at Union Street, London. You should bring with you strong expertise in highway geometry, pavement design, drainage systems, and a solid understanding of UK legislation, TfL Streetscape standards, and DMRB compliance.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

Location

Union Street, London – travel to the office required with some remote working available

Hours

Permanent, Fulltime 40 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary

£55,000 - £62,000 per year + private healthcare + benefits

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Engineer, you'll take the lead in designing, assessing, and delivering highway projects across the city. Working with broad autonomy, you'll manage your time effectively and operate with minimal supervision.

Your day to day will include:

• Undertakes work requiring the application of principles in a wide range of contexts and is able to demonstrates creativity in applying solutions
• Manage multi-disciplinary project inputs, ensuring programs are met and quality outputs delivered
• Conduct site visits, surveys and inspections, reporting and advising on SHE issues, attending internal and external meetings on behalf of TKJV
• Ensure designs comply with current UK standards including DMRB, TSRGD, Manual for Streets, and local authority requirements
• Build and consolidate networks within the industry and across TKJV to enhance understanding and knowledge of expertise

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Engineer is great if you:

• Are an Incorporated member of a relevant professional institutions (e.g. IEng MICE) and relevant experience or significant practical experience in a similar design consultancy
• Are Chartered or working towards Chartered status with the ICE or equivalent
• Have an in depth understanding of DMRB, Manual for Streets, TfL Streetscape and other relevant UK standards and regulations

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.