Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer – North England     

Role Summary

Job Title: Senior Engineer  

Location: Birmingham, Manchester Newcastle and Penrith

Salary: Starting from £46,000 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week – some flexibly, just ask us

Sector: Highways

Are you…

• An experienced highways technology engineer with strong ITS expertise?
• Confident leading technology schemes from concept through preliminary design?
• Comfortable providing strategic advice and technical governance to clients?
• Passionate about delivering innovative and legacy highways technology solutions?
• Experienced in leading and developing junior engineers?

Do you…

• Design and develop ITS solutions such as CCTV, VMS, MIDAS and communications networks?
• Produce high‑quality technical outputs including drawings, BoQs, reports and risk registers?
• Support feasibility studies, options appraisals and business case development?
• Provide clear, practical technical advice to clients and stakeholders?
• Enjoy combining hands‑on engineering with leadership and mentoring responsibilities?
• Want to work for a highly regarded Main Contractor, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor?

About the Role

As part of the Professional Services Team, the Senior Highways Technology Engineer provides strategic and technical leadership to highways clients delivering Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). The role involves leading highways technology schemes from concept to preliminary design, providing expert advice and governance across innovative and legacy systems, producing high‑quality technical outputs including designs, specifications, BoQs and reports, and supporting clients with business cases and risk management, while also mentoring and managing junior team members.

Key Requirements

• Degree in an engineering or science‑related discipline
• Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership (desirable)
• Asset Management or Project / Programme Management qualification (desirable)
• Strong experience delivering ITS consultancy, design or project management
• Good understanding of Asset Management principles
• Experience leading teams or managing work packages
• Knowledge of ITS, highways technology assets, IoT, telecoms and IP systems
• Familiar with systems engineering and design frameworks
• Comfortable managing workloads, programmes and stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with a practical, commercial mindset

Main Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Professional Services team members, providing line management, coaching and support
• Plan workloads, allocate tasks and assure quality, programme and timely delivery
• Deliver ITS and highways technology work packages to time, budget and quality
• Monitor budgets, risks and performance to support profitable project delivery
• Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders and supply‑chain partners
• Support business growth and development of new ITS and technology opportunities
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non‑technical audiences
• Represent Kier at client meetings and industry events as required

About Kier Design

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.

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.