Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer – Kier Group

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Design team based nationwide. Kier Design is 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 such as High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, and frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies.

We believe in building teams around our people, not squeezing people into teams. We want you to carve out a role in which you’ll grow and thrive for many years. Our offer includes market‑leading development opportunities, graduate support, professional qualification pathways, management training, ongoing technical development, competitive annual holiday entitlement, a matched pension scheme, shares through Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans, and additional benefits.

Location:

Nationwide

Hours:

37.5 hours per week – some flexibility available upon discussion
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As Senior Engineer you will work within the Drainage Team, delivering high‑quality, compliant, and sustainable discipline‑specific drainage and water solutions across a range of projects. Acting as Design Lead under the Design Team Leader, you will ensure programme, budget, and risk commitments are met through clear communication. The role includes line management of up to two graduates or apprentices, mentoring the wider team, contributing to technical development, and supporting continuous improvement of team practices and delivery standards.

• Delivering coordinated, compliant, and sustainable drainage and water designs in line with relevant standards, regulations, and client requirements.
• Acting as design lead for assigned work packages, managing technical risks and contributing to quality assurance and design reviews.
• Managing day‑to‑day delivery of work packages, ensuring programme, budget, and risk commitments are met, escalating issues where required.
• Working collaboratively with multi‑disciplinary teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners to support integrated and efficient design delivery.
• Providing line management and mentoring to early‑career engineers and contributing to technical development, knowledge sharing, and team capability, supporting consistent application of processes, standards, and best practice to improve ways of working and technical quality.

• Professional engineering accreditation or working towards CEng / IEng.
• Demonstrated experience delivering Drainage & Water design packages with a high degree of technical autonomy across one or more sectors (e.g. Building & Development, Transportation, Water Utilities, Flood & Water Management), and proven ability to manage the technical delivery of work packages.
• Experience working collaboratively within multi‑disciplinary teams, engaging effectively with internal and external stakeholders, and producing and reviewing high‑quality, compliant engineering outputs in line with relevant standards, regulations, and quality processes.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required.

We offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken so far and recognise we must always do more. Our employees shape Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and have made a huge impact on how we work, using their experiences to shape our policies.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #construction revolution #joinkier.