Technical Lead

Are you a seasoned technical & design leader ready to take ownership of high-impact projects and shape the future of a leading engineering business? At Kilnbridge, we’re seeking an experienced Technical Lead – Steelwork Division to own the technical strategy and ensure best-in-class solutions across all phases of steelwork delivery. Including structural design, fabrication methodology, welding specifications, site installation planning, buildability reviews, and CDM compliance.

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, integrate design and commercial decisions, and ensure that every project is technically robust, commercially viable, and safe to build. This is a high-influence role for a strategic leader who thrives on turning complex challenges into safe, efficient, and cost-effective solutions.

Why Kilnbridge?

We take on some of the UK’s most complex engineering and construction challenges and we do it with precision, integrity, and purpose. As an employee-owned business, every team member has a personal stake in our success. That means your leadership directly influences our growth, culture, and reputation.

We live by our values: Responsibility, Integrity, Teamwork, and Excellence. If you’re a leader who embodies these principles, you’ll thrive here.

What You’ll Be doing?

You’ll shape the technical strategy for our steelwork division, ensuring best-in-class solutions across structural design, fabrication, welding, and site installation. Your role will include:

• Leading the steelwork technical strategy across multiple projects
• Overseeing structural design, calculations, and detailing with buildability in mind
• Approving fabrication drawings, welding procedures (WPS), and inspection/test plans
• Ensuring compliance with Eurocodes, BS EN 1090, BS EN ISO 3834, and CDM regulations
• Integrating design with fabrication and erection methodology to maximise safety and efficiency
• Reviewing lifting plans, erection sequencing, and site method statements
• Aligning technical decisions with commercial strategy alongside estimators and quantity surveyors
• Managing design programmes, resources, and risk registers
• Mentoring engineers and designers to build technical capability across the division
• Championing innovation in BIM, digital engineering, and steelwork processes

In this role, you’ll shape the technical culture of the steelwork division, drive early-stage buildability reviews to reduce risk. You will be responsible for overseeing the full technical lifecycle from design to final bolt-up, ensuring the highest levels of quality and compliance in fabrication, welding, and on-site erection.

What You’ll Bring

You’ll have a degree in Structural or Civil Engineering, ideally with chartered status (CEng, MIStructE, or equivalent). With extensive experience in steelwork design, fabrication, welding, and site installation, and a strong grasp of buildability, temporary works, and erection sequencing.

You’ll be confident aligning technical decisions with commercial strategy, and well-versed in CDM Regulations and health and safety leadership. Strong project management skills, a focus on risk and continuous improvement, and the ability to lead, communicate, and engage stakeholders effectively round out your profile.

What We Offer

• Employee-owned – every team member shares in our success.
• Competitive salary + car allowance.
• Profit share bonus (tax-free up to £3,600 annually).
• Private medical insurance, enhanced pension, and death in service cover.
• 25 days holiday + paid volunteer day + flexible working options.
• Opportunity to lead on landmark UK infrastructure and steelwork projects.
• High-performing, values-led culture with serious ambition.

Ready to take the next step?

If you’re looking for a role where your leadership will make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and be part of a team that’s building something exceptional.

Kilnbridge is an equal opportunities employer and a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme. We are committed to creating a diverse workplace where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. We strive to attract, develop, engage and retain a diverse mix of talent that reflect the communities and stakeholders that we service. We are also open to discussing ‘flexible’ working options if suitable to the role.

We are committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment process, so let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during it and we will do our best to accommodate. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup or marital status.