Lead Principal Designer

We are looking for an experienced Engineer with design or construction experience to join our Principal Designer team based nationwide to support a broad range of highway projects (including major projects and targeted improvement projects) and water framework contracts. 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.

Nationwide, travel to various offices & sites across the UK

37.5 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

As Lead Principal Designer you’ll be working within our Principal Design team, supporting in providing CDM and Building Safety Act leadership on various Highway design contracts within Kier Design. This role will also involve assisting on National Highways major projects and Southern water framework contracts, providing guidance to scheme delivery teams on framework contracts, and working on local highways projects.

• Maintaining good relations with the client and other duty holders, attending meetings as necessary, identifying and applying appropriate methodologies and standards to produce effective and innovative solutions for schemes and studies to current standards; providing support to the Lead Principal Designer and design team(s) on implementation of CDM/BSA regulations and preparing and implementing project-level CDM compliance strategies.
• Point of contact for the Principal Designer function, assisting in carrying out project safety reviews, ensuring the application of the principles of prevention and preparing project documentation supporting management of CDM and health and safety in design development. On National Highways major projects this will include appropriate PCF documentation.
• Assisting the client in identifying and obtaining existing pre-construction information and managing its collation, reviewing information and identifying additional information required, preparing fee estimates and programmes for the activities within your responsibility, and making a positive contribution towards bids and project proposals and suggesting new areas of work.
• Maintaining close links with designers and assisting them in identifying, eliminating and reducing foreseeable risks to the health and safety of others, working closely with design teams, guiding them in safely building and maintaining designs, preparing fee estimates and programmes for the activities within your responsibility, and making a positive contribution towards bids and project proposals, suggesting new areas of work.
• Accountable for own quality, safety and time‑frame targets for projects whilst identifying and agreeing any additional work with the Project Manager or client, establishing own milestones, deadlines and team objectives, delegating responsibility to aid in completing projects in a timely and cost‑effective way, and reviewing and improving company CDM procedures, requirements and guidance.

• A degree level qualification in Civil Engineering, membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. ICE, CIHT) and a recognised professional qualification in Health and Safety (e.g. NEBOSH National Construction Certificate).
• Chartered or, at a minimum, working towards chartership.
• The imperative ability to drive, as you will be visiting various offices and sites.

We’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.