Design Engineer

Job Description

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We're looking for a Road Safety Engineer to join our Kier Design team based nationwide.Kier Design are a top-25engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.

We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself.

Location: Kier Design Nationwide - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 09:00 17:00) - 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 beresponsible for?

As a Road Safety Engineer, you'll be working within the Road Safety Team, supporting them in delivering high-quality technical outputs for road safety initiatives. Delivering technical solutions for road safety projects across the UK, you'll be contributing to highway schemes ranging from small improvements to major infrastructure projects for both internal and external clients. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise whilst making a real difference to road safety and community wellbeing.

Your day to day will include:

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• Contributing to Road Safety Audits, Walking, Cycling and Horse-Riding Assessments, and Equality Impact Assessments in line with DMRB standards

Preparing comprehensive reports and technical documents to meet client specifications

Undertaking site visits during daytime and night time as required

Providing innovative solutions to engineering challenges and technical advice to design teams

Building positive relationships with clients and stakeholders, attending meetings and reporting on project progress

What are we looking for?

This role of Road Safety Engineer is great for you if:

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• You're a member of a professional body (IEng/CEng status or working towards it)

You hold a valid CSCS Card and UK driving licence

You enjoy collaborative working and building strong relationships with colleagues and clients

You're thorough, disciplined and focused in your approach to delivering projects

You're committed to safety, ethical practice and making a positive impact on communities

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable 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. xwwtmva

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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