Virtual Design Technician

Kier Group plc; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction consultancy is looking for a Virtual Design Technician to join their Digital team nationwide. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating high-quality animations and interactive project walkthroughs, using advanced tools to communicate complex ideas. A strong design background and an understanding of the construction industry are essential. The role offers market-leading development opportunities and a range of competitive benefits, including a matched pension scheme and annual holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Competitive annual leave

Matched pension scheme

Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Qualifications

• Strong ability to interpret briefs and create bespoke environments.
• Understanding of the construction industry is essential.
• Ability to create high-quality animations and interactive content.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality animations, still visuals, and interactive content.
• Design and develop bespoke interactive project walkthroughs.
• Produce real-time scenario simulations and VR experiences.

Skills

Strong design background

Interpret architectural and engineering drawings

Sound working knowledge of Revit

Sound working knowledge of Twinmotion

Tools

Revit

Twinmotion

V-ray or similar

Job description

We're looking for a Virtual Design Technician to join our Design team based nationwide. Kier Design are a top-25 engineering 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. Within this 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

Nationwide

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 Virtual Design Technician, you'll be working within the Digital team, bringing construction designs to life through animations, interactive models and immersive visual experiences. Working closely with project teams, you'll help communicate complex ideas clearly and compellingly using cutting-edge tools and technologies.

Your day to day will include:

• Createhigh-quality animations, still visuals and interactive content.
• Design and develop bespoke interactive project walkthroughs, enabling users to explore construction sites, buildings and infrastructure projects in real time.
• Produce real-time scenario simulations, interactive site logistics models and virtual reality (VR) experiences.

What are we looking for?

This role of Virtual Design Technician is great for you if:

• A strong design background with the ability to interpret briefs and create bespoke environments tailored to client needs.
• Understanding of the construction industry and ability to interpret architectural and engineering drawings.
• Sound working knowledge of Revit and Twinmotion, v-ray or similar.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier #LI-MA1