We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Structural and Geotechnical -Civils River Infrastructure team based in Bristol.
Location: Bristol
Hours: 40 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Salary: Starting form £45,000 per annum
Sector: Structural and Geotechnical -Civils River Infrastructure
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
You'll join Kier Design, our 700-strong internal consultancy, delivering civil infrastructure engineering services across a growing portfolio of river and environmental projects.
This role focuses on leading technical delivery, supporting project performance, and ensuring designs meet both client expectations and regulatory requirements, including CDM and Kier standards.
Are you…
- A Civil Engineer with experience in river engineering or hydraulic structures?
- Chartered or Incorporated (e.g. CEng MICE) or working towards it?
- Confident leading design delivery and coordinating multidisciplinary teams?
- Comfortable managing technical risk and making sound engineering decisions?
- Keen to work on infrastructure projects for clients like the Environment Agency and Severn Trent?
Do you…
- Lead and manage design delivery, ensuring solutions are safe, practical and meet client requirements?
- Review and challenge technical briefs to ensure clarity and quality outcomes?
- Support fee proposals and contribute to project planning and delivery?
- Oversee and support engineers within the design team on a day-to-day basis?
- Monitor project progress, budgets and programme performance?
- Deliver value engineering and innovative solutions to improve project outcomes?
- Want to join a Top 30 Glassdoor-rated Main Contractor with secured workload?
What will you be responsible for?
As an Senior Engineer, you'll support the delivery of schemes within the Kier Design team, including:
- Lead civil infrastructure design delivery, ensuring safe, compliant and buildable solutions
- Review and challenge technical requirements, driving quality and clarity
- Manage and coordinate design team workload and outputs
- Ensure compliance with standards, legislation and Kier procedures (CDM, SHEMS, QMS)
- Monitor programme, budget and project performance
- Deliver value engineering and innovative solutions to enhance project outcomes
What are we looking for?
- This role of Design Engineer is great for you if you:
- Minimum 5 years' postgraduate experience in river engineering, hydraulic structures or similar
- Experience delivering design across multidisciplinary teams
- Strong technical judgement and ability to manage uncertainty
- Chartered/Incorporated status (or working towards)
- Full UK driving licence
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable 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.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
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