Senior Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Highways Engineer to join our Basingstoke team based in Basingstoke within the highways sector. 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.

Location: Basingstoke
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.

Are you…

• A university degree holder (BSc, BEng, MSc, MEng) in Civil Engineering, Highways Engineering, or Transportation
• Chartered (CEng)/Incorporated (IEng) professional or working towards becoming chartered or incorporated engineer with ICE, CIHT or IHE
• Holding a Full driving licence
• A member of a professional institution
• Holder of CSCS Card, SMSTS or equivalent

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Highways Engineer, you'll be working within the Basingstoke team, supporting them in delivering highway design projects to the highest standards. This is an excellent opportunity to join our highways design team where you'll be responsible for the development and preparation of concept, preliminary and detailed design of a range of highway and infrastructure projects. You'll play a key role in supporting the Team Leader in managing and supervising team members, whilst contributing to their professional development. This position offers the chance to work collaboratively across disciplines, delivering innovative solutions for highway maintenance and improvement schemes to current standards.

Your day to day will include:

• Undertaking feasibility, preliminary and detailed design of highway maintenance and improvement schemes to DMRB and local authority standards using AutoCAD
• Working collaboratively with other design disciplines in Common Data Environments
• Providing design support to the highways design team and overseeing preparation of technical drawings, specifications and design calculations
• Preparing fee estimates, design programmes, tender and contract documents
• Maintaining good relations with clients and other authorities, attending meetings as necessary

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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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