Engineer, Civil Engineering

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We’re looking for an Engineer to join our Design team 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.

Location
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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.

As Engineer, you’ll be working within the Drainage Team, delivering high‑quality, compliant, and sustainable drainage & water solutions across a range of discipline‑specific projects. They support the design lead on assigned work packages, contributing to design coordination and helping to ensure programme, budget and risk commitments are met. The role includes providing technical input to the team, assisting with knowledge sharing, and supporting early‑career engineers where required, while helping to maintain consistent standards and best practice in delivery.

• Delivering assigned tasks within work packages to a high standard, taking ownership of technical outputs and ensuring they are coordinated, compliant, and sustainable.
• Applying relevant design standards, regulations and quality processes consistently, contributing technical input and supporting quality assurance and design reviews.
• Proactively identifying risks or issues within tasks and supporting timely resolution.
• Managing the delivery of individual tasks within the programme and budget, escalating issues and proposing solutions to maintain overall package performance.

• HNC, BTEC or equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering field.
• Experience producing engineering calculations, drawings, reports and models in drainage & water design, and an understanding of relevant design standards, regulations and quality assurance processes.
• Ability to undertake site visits, surveys and desk‑based research to inform design outputs, with strong attention to detail and accuracy in completing routine tasks.
• Effective communication and collaboration with multi‑disciplinary teams, full driving license and willingness to travel as required.

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 on benefits here.

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 #construction revolution #joinkier.