Senior Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our regional build team based in Southampton.

Location: Southampton - 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.

Join our regional build team as a Senior Engineer, where you'll play a key role in planning and delivering structures work across our contracts. This position offers the chance to work on varied projects, from inspection programming to coordinating maintenance delivery, whilst collaborating with a supportive team in a dynamic environment.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Engineer, you'll be working within the Construction team, supporting them in the day-to-day planning, management and delivery of structures work. Your day to day will include:

• Planning works and inspections in collaboration with the Contracts Manager and Programme Manager, ensuring delivery within time frames and contract requirements whilst meeting KPIs
• Attending internal and external meetings, providing programme updates and working closely with inspectors and engineers to keep project schedules on track
• Monitoring programmes daily, capturing essential notifications, identifying critical activities for successful delivery and maintaining up-to-date scheme registers
• Tracking key performance indicators, managing task requests from clients and developing design and build delivery programmes for client approval
• Reviewing health and safety documentation, ensuring subcontractor risk assessments meet standards and overseeing completion of safety files and certificates

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Engineer is great for you if:

• You hold an HNC or equivalent in Civil Engineering and SMSTS or SSSTS qualification
• You have experience in traffic management, highways environments, rail or London Underground projects
• You're comfortable managing multiple schemes and projects simultaneously
• You hold a full driving licence to visit depots and sites as required

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.

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.