Engineer

We're looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Design team based in Gerrards Cross. 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: Gerrards Cross 

Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As Mechanical Design Engineer, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, supporting in producing compliant designs for the waste water network. Mainly being involved in working on our Severn Trent Water AMP8 Framework, but shall also require working on schemes for other clients when needed, including (but not limited to) upgrading work at combined sewer overflows (CSOs), sewage treatment sites, pumping stations, screens, etc. There will also be involvement in design for clean water networks.

Your day to day will include:

• Planning, organising, and overseeing the execution of tasks assigned, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget. 
• Working in a team of engineers, designers, and other professionals involved in the project, interacting with clients, designers, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure effective communication and coordination
• Compliance and quality assurance: Ensuring all designs comply with relevant design codes, regulations, industry standards and Kier Design standards and procedures.
• Promoting and implementing sustainable design solutions where applicable, identifying and resolving technical and logistical challenges during the design and construction phases
• Maintaining effective and regular communication with senior management on all matters affecting output, progress, cost and risks

What are we looking for?

This role of Mechanical Design Engineer is great for you if:

• Degree in Mechanical / Civil Engineering, working towards attaining professional membership to a relevant institution (ICE, IMechE, IET, or similar)
• A general understanding of water network design (waste water and/or clean) and can produce designs compliant to the relevant design (BS and/or EN) and client standards, able to carry out and understand hydraulic design and specify correct materials / components as required by the design scope
• Knowledge in your discipline allied to demonstrable understanding of the role of industry standard design software, working in a multi-discipline technical / engineering team with a track record of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets

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

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