Assistant Design Engineer

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

12/26/2024

A great opportunity for an Assistant Design Engineer with expertise in Highways Bridges and Structures to join our Transportation team in Birmingham or London. In this role, you will work closely with the Lead Engineer to deliver design packages that align with client requirements, ensuring they are completed within agreed timeframes and budgets. A valid UK driving licence is essential for this position. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to contribute to transportation projects, we'd love to hear from you!

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Birmingham / London - remote working available, with travel to the office required

Contract: Permanent Fulltime with some flexibility on hours

Salary: £30,000 - £36,000 per annum + benefits

Responsibilities

As an Assistant Design Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of technical outputs for individuals and project teams. Your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, scheme investigations, site and structural inspections, data collection and analysis, feasibility and options studies, preliminary and detailed designs, preparation of tender documents, and inspection of works during construction.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Support Lead Engineer for highway structures schemes
• Identify and apply appropriate methodologies and standards to produce effective and innovative solutions for highways structures to current standards
• Provide information to populate the risk register and decision register and update this information as the project develops
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

This role of Assistant Design Engineer is great if you have:

• A degree or equivalent in a Civil/Structural Engineering
• Working towards Chartered / incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (MICE/MIStructE or equivalent)
• Knowledge and Experience of using design/analysis software (e.g. LUSAS, Midas, Archie M, Autodesk Bridge Design)
• Experience in inspection, assessment, design and construction of highways structures to DMRB and Eurocodes
  
  
  

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier