Senior Road Safety Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Road Safety Engineer to join our Kier Design team. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our established Road Safety Team, delivering high‑quality technical outputs across a wide range of highways schemes. The role offers exposure to diverse projects and close collaboration with both internal and external clients, with a clear focus on helping to reduce risk, improve network safety, and deliver tangible, positive road safety outcomes for communities.

Location: Nationwide - remote working available, with some travel to the office required
Hours: Permanent Fulltime 37.5 hours per week – condensed hours will also be considered along with flexibility on hours, just let us know when you speak to us

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

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Road Safety Engineer, the role sits within the Road Safety team, supporting the delivery of technical excellence across a wide range of road safety activities. Projects range from small‑scale improvement schemes through to major programmes of work.

Your day to day will include:

• Undertaking Road Safety Audits (RSA), Walking, Cycling and Horse-Riding Assessments (WCHAR), and Equality Impact Assessments
• Preparing reports and documents in line with DMRB standards and client technical specifications
• Conducting site visits during daytime and nighttime, providing technical advice to design teams
• Mentoring junior staff and contributing towards technical excellence and innovation across the team
• Maintaining positive client relationships and attending meetings as required

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Road Safety Engineer is ideal if you:

• Are a member of a professional body with IEng or CEng status, or working towards this
• Can demonstrate training or competence in specialist areas such as RSA or WCHAR, or are working towards this
• Hold a CSCS Card
• Have a valid driving licence
• Are passionate about road safety and enjoy providing innovative solutions to engineering challenges

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.

#LI-MA1