Assistant Engineer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | IP3 9BF |
| Cwmni: | Kier Group |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 9520 |
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We're looking for Assistant Engineer to join our Design team based nationwide. 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: Nationwide
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As Virtual Design Technician, you'll be working within the Drainage, delivering typical, routine, and well-defined drainage & water design tasks, ensuring projects progress efficiently and to a high standard. The role also provides opportunities to develop technical skills, gain experience, and contribute to increasingly challenging projects. By supporting reliable project delivery and continuous learning, the Assistant Engineer helps maintain team performance while advancing their own professional development, paving the way for promotion and supporting overall team growth.
Your day to day will include:
-Calculations, Producing routine engineering calculations for drainage & water tasks, ensuring accuracy and compliance
-Drawings: Preparing and updating design drawings and schematics to support project outputs
-Reports & Documentation: Contributing to reports, specifications, schedules, and compliance documentation
-Models: Assisting in developing and reviewing hydraulic, hydrological, or CAD models
What are we looking for?
This role of Virtual Design Technician is great for you if:
-Experience producing engineering calculations, drawings, reports, and models in drainage & water design, an understanding of relevant design standards, regulations, and quality assurance processes
-Ability to undertake site visits, surveys, and desk-based research to inform design outputs, strong attention to detail and accuracy in completing routine tasks
-Effective communication and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, full driving license and willingness to travel as required
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: Nationwide
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As Virtual Design Technician, you'll be working within the Drainage, delivering typical, routine, and well-defined drainage & water design tasks, ensuring projects progress efficiently and to a high standard. The role also provides opportunities to develop technical skills, gain experience, and contribute to increasingly challenging projects. By supporting reliable project delivery and continuous learning, the Assistant Engineer helps maintain team performance while advancing their own professional development, paving the way for promotion and supporting overall team growth.
Your day to day will include:
-Calculations, Producing routine engineering calculations for drainage & water tasks, ensuring accuracy and compliance
-Drawings: Preparing and updating design drawings and schematics to support project outputs
-Reports & Documentation: Contributing to reports, specifications, schedules, and compliance documentation
-Models: Assisting in developing and reviewing hydraulic, hydrological, or CAD models
What are we looking for?
This role of Virtual Design Technician is great for you if:
-Experience producing engineering calculations, drawings, reports, and models in drainage & water design, an understanding of relevant design standards, regulations, and quality assurance processes
-Ability to undertake site visits, surveys, and desk-based research to inform design outputs, strong attention to detail and accuracy in completing routine tasks
-Effective communication and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, full driving license and willingness to travel as required
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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