We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Highways Technology team based in Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Penrith.
Location: Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Penrith - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Salary: Start from £46,000 per annum
Sector: Kier Design - Highways
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
Are you…
- An experienced highways technology engineer with strong ITS expertise?
- Confident leading technology schemes from concept through preliminary design?
- Comfortable providing strategic advice and technical governance to clients?
- Passionate about delivering innovative and legacy highways technology solutions?
- Experienced in leading and developing junior engineers?
Do you…
- Design and develop ITS solutions such as CCTV, VMS, MIDAS and communications networks?
- Produce high‑quality technical outputs including drawings, BoQs, reports and risk registers?
- Support feasibility studies, options appraisals and business case development?
- Provide clear, practical technical advice to clients and stakeholders?
- Enjoy combining hands‑on engineering with leadership and mentoring responsibilities?
- Want to work for a highly regarded Main Contractor, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor?
About the role
As a Senior Engineer within our Professional Services Team, you'll play a key role in delivering strategic and technical leadership to highways clients. You'll be working on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), guiding highways technology schemes from initial concept through to preliminary design. This is an opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities, all while working for a highly regarded Main Contractor recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Senior Engineer, you'll be working within the Professional Services team, supporting them in delivering innovative and legacy highways technology solutions. Your day to day will include:
- Leading highways technology schemes from concept to preliminary design, including ITS solutions such as CCTV, VMS, MIDAS and communications networks
- Producing high-quality technical outputs including designs, specifications, drawings, BoQs, reports and risk registers
- Providing expert advice and technical governance to clients and stakeholders on innovative and legacy systems
- Supporting feasibility studies, options appraisals and business case development
- Mentoring and managing junior team members, providing line management, coaching and support
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Engineer is great for you if:
- You hold a degree in an engineering or science-related discipline and are Chartered or working towards chartership
- You have strong experience delivering ITS consultancy, design or project management
- You're comfortable managing workloads, programmes and stakeholder relationships
- You have knowledge of ITS, highways technology assets, IoT, telecoms and IP systems
- You possess excellent communication skills with a practical, commercial mindset
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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