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Principal Temporary Works Advisor

Kier GroupNationwide🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 16 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Principal Temporary Works Advisor role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape impactful engineering solutions nationwide within a reputable company, with flexibility for your work-life balance. You'll thrive here if you're a seasoned leader passionate about ensuring safety and excellence in temporary works, eager to share your expertise and drive compliance across diverse projects. Apply today to leverage your skills and contribute to significant engineering achievements.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Leader

Job Description

We're looking for a Principal Temporary Works Advisor to join our team nationwide, with a suitable base location.

Location: Nationwide 
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.

 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Principal Temporary Works Advisor, you'll be working within the temporary works team, supporting them in delivering safe and compliant engineering solutions. You'll advise teams on the effective implementation of the group temporary works standard, ensuring compliance and excellence across our projects.

Your day to day will include:

  • Advising on the effective implementation of the group temporary works Standard and associated guidance
  • Providing technical and practical advice on temporary works design and implementation
  • Undertaking formal and informal compliance audits of projects and frameworks
  • Delivering training to Temporary Works Coordinators and other team members
  • Supporting investigations and contributing to incident review boards as required

What are we looking for?

This role of Principal Temporary Works Advisor is great for you if:

  • You are a Chartered member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. CEng MICE) with relevant experience at this level, or have significant relevant practical experience
  • Have a strong understanding of construction engineering services and temporary works standards
  • Enjoy collaborating with clients and stakeholders to reach innovative solutions
  • Are trusted to deliver what you promise, acting safely and ethically at all times
  • Hold a full driving licence

 

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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Skills

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