Supervisor
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Jenny Buckley
Benefits
Life assurance
Kier Rewards
Additional holiday purchase opportunities
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
Enhanced family leave & policies
Share plan schemes
Free health & wellbeing services
Opportunity to purchase health benefits & insurance
Supervisor
We're looking for an experienced Site Supervisor to join our Transportation team in Brixworth, Northamptonshire. In this role, you'll help deliver a diverse range of local authority civil engineering projects for Kier on behalf of West Northamptonshire Council. If you're an enthusiastic professional with a proven track record in supervising all aspects of on-site maintenance and improvement schemes, we'd love to hear from you.
Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.
Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire – site based 5 days per week
Hours: Permanent Fulltime 40 hours per week
Salary: £32,000 - £37,000 per year + company van + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Site Supervisor, you'll oversee minor works and support projects involving footway reconstruction, carriageway resurfacing, surface treatments, drainage upgrades, traffic signal installations, and structural repairs. This role requires experience working on live public highways, a strong commitment to a people-first approach to safety and ensuring full compliance with all relevant SHEQ processes and procedures.
Your day to day will include:
- Managing and administering the construction works in accordance with the contract
- Assisting with the implementation of the duties of the Principal Contractor under CDM
- Issuing various permits for activities such as hot works and digging for various contractors in accordance with Kier processes and safe digging procedure
- Ensuring temporary works are installed in accordance with the approved design details
- Carrying out regular Health and Safety inspections, reporting all accidents, near misses and briefing of toolbox talks
What are we looking for?
This role of Site Supervisor is great if you have:
- SSSTS (CITB Supervisors Safety Training Scheme) or SMSTS (Site Management Safety Trainings Scheme)
- NRSWA Supervisor
- 12D Lantra Traffic Management
- Temporary Works Supervisor
- Understanding and implementation the Construction (Design Management) CDM regulations
- Knowledge of the Chapter 8 Traffic Signs Manual
- Understanding of NEC4 contract
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: Northampton
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Vacancy ID: 9080
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Background check: None
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Closing date: 22 Dec 2025
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Flexible Working: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
