Principal Engineer

We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Design Team based in Birmingham.  In this role you will lead the delivery of complex construction engineering services, providing safe, compliant and innovative solutions while supporting project teams, developing people and enhancing Kier's technical capability. Could this be you?

Kier Design is a top‑25 engineering consultancy delivering construction‑focused, buildable solutions across the built environment. With access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, we work on some of the UK's most complex and high‑profile infrastructure projects.

Location: Birmingham

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 a Principal Engineer, you'll support and lead the delivery of complex construction engineering services within the Construction Engineering team, ensuring solutions are safe, compliant and buildable.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading the delivery of complex construction engineering services, including temporary works design, checking and technical assurance
• Acting as Project Lead, managing technical scope, programme, budget and client relationships from bid through to delivery
• Overseeing and contributing to design outputs such as calculations, drawings, reports and risk assessments, ensuring compliance with CDM, SHEMS and QMS
• Identifying technical risk, delivering alternative solutions and value engineering to improve buildability and commercial outcomes
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, supporting training initiatives and promoting best practice across Kier Design

What are we looking for?

The role of Principal Engineer is ideal for you if you bring:

• Chartered Engineer or member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. CEng MICE) with significant post‑qualification experience
• Strong background in temporary works design, integrated with permanent works where required
• Proven experience leading projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and engaging confidently with clients and stakeholders
• Sound commercial awareness, with experience supporting bids, fees, programme and budget management
• A collaborative leader who values safety, quality, innovation and continuous professional development

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. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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