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Associate Engineer
We're looking for one or more talented Associates to join our team in various locations around the UK.
Locations
- Birmingham / Cardiff / Leeds / Liverpool / London / Plymouth – agile working, with up to 1-2 days per week from home if desired
- Hours: 40 hours per week – flexibility on hours available if desired
Salary
- Starting from £70k per annum
- Sector: Working across all sectors of the built environment
- Join us as an Associate Engineer and become part of one of the UK's leaders in temporary works design and management and construction-related technical services. You'll play a key leadership role within our 100-strong team, delivering hundreds of projects across one of the most diverse and high-profile portfolios in the country, with access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline – supporting complex construction and major infrastructure schemes from concept through to delivery.
Are you…
A Principal Engineer, with strong technical and people management skills, and a proven track record of successful technical and commercial project delivery, looking to take the next step in your career?
Or already an experienced team leader in an Associate or Engineering Manager role, looking for a fresh opportunity?
Practically-minded, with a strong grounding in civil, structural and/or geotechnical engineering principles and knowledge of applicable design standards?
A Chartered Engineer (CEng) or of equivalent experience?
Do you…
Enjoy applying first principles thinking to real-world construction challenges, combining a keen eye for detail with sound engineering judgement, a focus on safety, buildability, sustainability and a flair for innovation and creative problem-solving?
Have experience of temporary works design and/or management, or other practical construction experience?
Have strong organisational and communication skills, and enjoy developing talented individuals, creating high-performing teams capable of delivering a consistently great service to satisfied customers?
Want to join a top-25 engineering consultancy, recognised as a one of Glassdoor's 50 best places to work?
What will you be responsible for?
Overseeing the day-to-day activity of a local team of 8-16 technical staff, supporting a Regional Engineering Manager to lead a wider regional team of 30+ and the Head of Construction Engineering to lead a nationwide team of 100+. Leading the delivery of our most complex and/or high-value projects, whilst supporting Principal and Senior Engineers to lead the delivery of a broad range of services including some or all of: temporary works design and checking, reviewing permanent designs for compliance and buildability, supporting tenders and preconstruction planning, and providing technical support to overcome construction-stage and post-construction issues and defects.
Main responsibilities
- Local team leadership, contributing to leadership of wider regional and national team, developing yourself and others, leading the continuous improvement of processes and systems, enabling the business to adapt to current and future challenges
- Acting as Project Lead for our most complex and/or high-value projects, managing technical scope, programme, budget and relationships with preconstruction and construction teams, from bid through to delivery
- Producing, checking and reviewing design outputs such as calculations, sketches, drawings, 3D models, reports and risk assessments, ensuring compliance with CDM, SHE procedures and QA processes
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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