Senior Design Engineer

We are looking for a skilled Senior Drainage Design Engineer (specialising in water, flooding, and drainage) to join our Transportation team in Salford, Greater Manchester. In this role, you will lead the successful delivery of a range of projects, ensuring they meet established standards, deadlines, and budgetary requirements across various design contracts. Could this be the opportunity for you? A valid driving licence is essential for this position.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Salford, Greater Manchester - some remote working available, with travel to the office required

Contract: Permanent Fulltime

Salary: £43,000 - £50,000 + private healthcare + benefits

Responsibilities

As a Senior Drainage Design Engineer, you'll specialise in highway drainage, as well as incorporating expertise in water utilities and Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA), this role within Kier Design Services contributes to impactful projects.

Your day to day will include:

• Taking the lead on technically challenging projects, elements and/or solutions.


• Prioritising and coordinating day to day tasks and resources in relation to your projects.


• Ensuring quality and project controls established by the team and wider business are adhered to along with the latest design standards and lessons learnt.


• Supporting the development of fee estimates and programmes before monitoring project delivery and undertaking necessary change control management.


• Supporting the Design Team Leader with the development and overall wellbeing of the team.

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Drainage Engineer is great if you have:

• Civil Engineering degree - or a similar combination of qualifications and/or experience


• Membership with relevant engineering body


• CSCS card


• A motivated and conscientious individual who has a proven record of successfully delivering projects and proactively supporting the development of their colleagues

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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

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