Section Engineer

We're looking for a Section Engineer to join our Southern Water team based in the Southern Water area, with offices at Falmer, Chatham, and Chichester.

Location: Southern Water area, offices at Falmer, Chatham, Chichester - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 40 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 a Section Engineer, you'll play a vital role in delivering technical excellence across a diverse portfolio of water infrastructure projects. Working closely with the Site Agent, you'll provide engineering support and supervision across more than 40 schemes spanning both clean and wastewater portfolios throughout the Southern Water region. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved from the earliest stages of project development right through to successful handover, contributing to essential infrastructure that serves communities across the area.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Section Engineer, you'll be working within the site delivery team, supporting them in delivering high-quality water infrastructure projects safely, on time, and within budget. Your day-to-day will include:

• Providing engineering support and supervision to ensure technical compliance with design specifications
• Supporting site surveys, investigations, and preparation of access and health and safety documentation during pre-construction phases
• Managing construction records, including as-built drawings, schedules, and inspection and test records
• Ensuring accurate setting out, quality checking, and that the workforce understands technical requirements
• Coordinating materials, plant, and equipment to meet programme requirements whilst minimising waste

What are we looking for?

This role of Section Engineer is great for you if:

• You hold a relevant qualification such as HNC, NVQ Level 3, degree, or management qualification
• You have CAT 4 Genny and CAT training, plus EUSR Water Hygiene (Dirty Water) certification
• You bring strong attention to detail and excellent organisational skills
• You're comfortable working flexibly across various sites and offices throughout the Southern Water territory
• You hold a Full driving licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities, you can see more information about our water business here. There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

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 on 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 #LI-JB4.