Senior Engineer

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Manpreet Atwal

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Senior Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Kier Design team based in Various. Kier Design are a highly regarded Tier 1 Contractor, with a 750 plus strong design consultancy team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor. Join us and become part of one of the UK's leaders in temporary works design and management and construction-related technical services. As part of our 100-strong team, you'll get to work on hundreds of projects across one of the most diverse and high-profile portfolios in the country, with access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline – supporting complex construction and major infrastructure schemes from concept through to delivery.

Location: Birmingham / Bristol / Cambridge / Cardiff / Glasgow / Leeds / Liverpool / London / Manchester / Newcastle / Norwich / Plymouth  – agile working, with up to 1-2 days per week from home if desired
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Salary: starting from £51,100 per annum

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

This is an excellent opportunity to join our team and lead the delivery of a broad range of construction engineering services. You'll contribute to complex projects, providing solutions that are safe and buildable, whilst supporting the development of engineering excellence across the business. This role offers the chance to work on diverse projects, from temporary works design to bid support, value engineering, and technical leadership, all while mentoring and developing others in the team.

Are you…

  • An Incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. IEng MICE) with relevant experience, or possess significant experience
  • Experienced in leading the delivery of construction engineering services
  • Able to provide technical leadership and support to multidisciplinary teams
  • Capable of managing projects from concept through to completion, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and quality management systems

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Engineer, you'll be working within the Kier Design team, supporting them in delivering construction engineering services across a broad range of projects.

Your day to day will include:

  • Leading temporary works design and checking, providing safe and buildable solutions, supporting bid winning activities with outline design schemes and feasibility studies
  • Managing design projects, overseeing team workloads and ensuring technical compliance
  • Providing technical assessment and review of third-party designs
  • Delivering leadership to your team, conducting performance reviews, managing workloads, and supporting the development of staff within Kier Design
  • Mentoring and developing team members, promoting professional development and engineering excellence

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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  • Location: Nationwide
  • Vacancy ID: 13320
  • Background check: None
  •  Closing date: 15 Dec 2026
  • Contract type: Permanent
  • Working hours: Full Time
  • Flexible working: Yes

    Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.


 

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