Principal Engineer
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 January 2026 |
| Location: | L24 8QR |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9241 |
Summary
We're looking for an Major Projects Mechanical Lead to join our Design team based in Gerrards Cross / Speke. Kier Design are a top-25 engineering consultancy, delivering a wide range of services across all sectors of the built environment, providing construction-focused, innovative and sustainable solutions. We have preferential access to Kier's £11bn+ project pipeline, including mega projects like High Speed 2 and Hinkley Point C, frameworks with national and local government and other public bodies, and a range of other interesting projects in every sector of the built environment.
We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more
Location: Gerrards Cross / Speke
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
What will you be responsible for?
As Major Projects Mechanical Lead, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, overseeing and coordinating the mechanical design for large, complex construction projects, acting as the central point for technical excellence, team leadership, client liaison, and ensuring sustainable, compliant, and cost-effective design delivery from concept through to construction, bridging client needs with engineering reality. They must manage design teams, integrate different disciplines, ensure quality control, and drive innovation for high-value projects
Your day to day will include:
-Taking full responsibility and leading on the management of all works delivered through the Mechanical team, managing all aspects of building services engineering, working together with the Major Projects Electrical Lead coordinating solutions for all allocated works, which include all major projects new builds
-Effectively managing team utilisation levels, identifying and implementing necessary steps, balancing team capabilities and resource levels with available workload, setting, monitoring and maintaining standards for quality of product delivery, aligning all aspects of delivery to standard industry practices, overseeing of designs and advice including feasibility, multi stage designs, and condition reports, liaising with other teams within Kier both within own discipline and other disciplines over all matters requiring coordination to achieve effective delivery
-Maintaining programme of CPD events to retain up to date competence / capability of the team, championing effective and regular communication to management on all matters affecting output, progress, cost and risks, playing an active part in business development, including production of fees and quality responses supporting bid submissions, preparation of presentation materials, attendance at interviews and client meetings
-Providing high level technical advice in mechanical building services engineering, participating in project design meetings, establishing solutions, agreeing concepts, working closely with colleagues and other design team members
-Ensuring delivery of co-ordinated design solutions to the end of projects, providing budget costs and pre-tender estimates as required
What are we looking for?
This role of Major Projects Mechanical Lead is great for you if:
-Chartered Engineer and member of CIBSE or IET, with a Degree in Mechanical Building Services or Electrical Engineering plus, significant knowledge of the Mechanical Electrical & Technology industry
-Can communicate complex technical concepts into more readily understood information suitable for a wider business audience, experience in the application of quality procedures and document control in engineering design
-Ability to pass the BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) requirements
Rewards and benefitsWe'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 inclusionMaking 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
#LI-MA1
We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. Offering market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers. Actively promoting, so you can keep pushing and stretching yourself. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more
Location: Gerrards Cross / Speke
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
What will you be responsible for?
As Major Projects Mechanical Lead, you'll be working within the Mechanical Electrical and Technology team, overseeing and coordinating the mechanical design for large, complex construction projects, acting as the central point for technical excellence, team leadership, client liaison, and ensuring sustainable, compliant, and cost-effective design delivery from concept through to construction, bridging client needs with engineering reality. They must manage design teams, integrate different disciplines, ensure quality control, and drive innovation for high-value projects
Your day to day will include:
-Taking full responsibility and leading on the management of all works delivered through the Mechanical team, managing all aspects of building services engineering, working together with the Major Projects Electrical Lead coordinating solutions for all allocated works, which include all major projects new builds
-Effectively managing team utilisation levels, identifying and implementing necessary steps, balancing team capabilities and resource levels with available workload, setting, monitoring and maintaining standards for quality of product delivery, aligning all aspects of delivery to standard industry practices, overseeing of designs and advice including feasibility, multi stage designs, and condition reports, liaising with other teams within Kier both within own discipline and other disciplines over all matters requiring coordination to achieve effective delivery
-Maintaining programme of CPD events to retain up to date competence / capability of the team, championing effective and regular communication to management on all matters affecting output, progress, cost and risks, playing an active part in business development, including production of fees and quality responses supporting bid submissions, preparation of presentation materials, attendance at interviews and client meetings
-Providing high level technical advice in mechanical building services engineering, participating in project design meetings, establishing solutions, agreeing concepts, working closely with colleagues and other design team members
-Ensuring delivery of co-ordinated design solutions to the end of projects, providing budget costs and pre-tender estimates as required
What are we looking for?
This role of Major Projects Mechanical Lead is great for you if:
-Chartered Engineer and member of CIBSE or IET, with a Degree in Mechanical Building Services or Electrical Engineering plus, significant knowledge of the Mechanical Electrical & Technology industry
-Can communicate complex technical concepts into more readily understood information suitable for a wider business audience, experience in the application of quality procedures and document control in engineering design
-Ability to pass the BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) requirements
Rewards and benefitsWe'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 inclusionMaking 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
#LI-MA1
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