Highways Supervisor
| Posting date: | 29 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2026 |
| Location: | SY3 9EL |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9891 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Highways Supervisor to join our highways maintenance team in Shropshire. In this role you'll play a key role in ensuring all works are delivered safely on budget and to schedule.
Location: Shropshire (North, Central, South) - site based 5 days per week
Hours: Permanent Fulltime 40 hours per week
Salary: £37,796 per year + £5k annual car allowance + excellent benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role
What will you be responsible for?
As a Highways Supervisor, you'll be responsible for planning, supervising, and ensuring health and safety compliance across site teams for reactive maintenance, minor works, capital resurfacing, drainage and structural projects.
Your day to day will include:
-Effectively planning, supervising and delivering programmes of works while ensuring all health and safety standards are maintained
-Conducting regular site safety inspections and ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations
-Managing site teams to ensure career development and competency achievement
-Supporting digital working practices and collaborating with Kier Health, Safety & Wellbeing advisors
-Contributing to winter service and emergency out-of-hours response when required
What are we looking for?
This role of Supervisor is great if you:
-Have experience in highways maintenance at a supervisory level
-Hold a Site Safety Management certificate (SMSTS/SSSTS) and NRSWA Supervisor card
-Possess a full driving licence
-Have knowledge of temporary works requirements
-Understand fleet management and O licence compliance
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.
#LI-JB2
Location: Shropshire (North, Central, South) - site based 5 days per week
Hours: Permanent Fulltime 40 hours per week
Salary: £37,796 per year + £5k annual car allowance + excellent benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role
What will you be responsible for?
As a Highways Supervisor, you'll be responsible for planning, supervising, and ensuring health and safety compliance across site teams for reactive maintenance, minor works, capital resurfacing, drainage and structural projects.
Your day to day will include:
-Effectively planning, supervising and delivering programmes of works while ensuring all health and safety standards are maintained
-Conducting regular site safety inspections and ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations
-Managing site teams to ensure career development and competency achievement
-Supporting digital working practices and collaborating with Kier Health, Safety & Wellbeing advisors
-Contributing to winter service and emergency out-of-hours response when required
What are we looking for?
This role of Supervisor is great if you:
-Have experience in highways maintenance at a supervisory level
-Hold a Site Safety Management certificate (SMSTS/SSSTS) and NRSWA Supervisor card
-Possess a full driving licence
-Have knowledge of temporary works requirements
-Understand fleet management and O licence compliance
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.
#LI-JB2
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.