Sub-Agent
| Posting date: | 02 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 March 2026 |
| Location: | M50 3XP |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9870 |
Summary
Are you ready for an exciting opportunity to develop your civil engineering career with a leading infrastructure specialist? We're looking for a Sub-Agent to join our Manchester Airport Rail team.
Location: Manchester Airport
Hours: 42 hours per week
Salary: £51,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role
What will you be responsible for?
As a Sub-Agent, you'll be working within the Earthworks team playing a key role in ensuring technical compliance, quality delivery, and project success at our Manchester Airport Rail S site.
Your day to day will include:
-Managing a significant section of the project, ensuring compliance with design specifications
-Supporting the implementation of Health & Safety policies and quality assurance processes
-Creating and maintaining programmes to plan and measure daily activities
-Collaborating with the Site Agent on cost management and resource planning
-Acting as Temporary Works Coordinator for areas within your responsibility
What are we looking for?
This role of Sub-Agent is great if you:
-Hold a degree in civil engineering (or equivalent experience) and working towards becoming a Chartered Member of the ICE to support your personal development
-Have proven knowledge of engineering management systems, quality processes and industry standards used within civil engineering and infrastructure organisations
-Demonstrate excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to maintain project documentation
-Bring an enthusiastic, collaborative approach to teamwork contributing effectively within multidisciplinary engineering and project delivery teams
-Possess strong commercial awareness and the ability to communicate professionally with clients, stakeholders, and project partners
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.
Location: Manchester Airport
Hours: 42 hours per week
Salary: £51,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role
What will you be responsible for?
As a Sub-Agent, you'll be working within the Earthworks team playing a key role in ensuring technical compliance, quality delivery, and project success at our Manchester Airport Rail S site.
Your day to day will include:
-Managing a significant section of the project, ensuring compliance with design specifications
-Supporting the implementation of Health & Safety policies and quality assurance processes
-Creating and maintaining programmes to plan and measure daily activities
-Collaborating with the Site Agent on cost management and resource planning
-Acting as Temporary Works Coordinator for areas within your responsibility
What are we looking for?
This role of Sub-Agent is great if you:
-Hold a degree in civil engineering (or equivalent experience) and working towards becoming a Chartered Member of the ICE to support your personal development
-Have proven knowledge of engineering management systems, quality processes and industry standards used within civil engineering and infrastructure organisations
-Demonstrate excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to maintain project documentation
-Bring an enthusiastic, collaborative approach to teamwork contributing effectively within multidisciplinary engineering and project delivery teams
-Possess strong commercial awareness and the ability to communicate professionally with clients, stakeholders, and project partners
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.
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Disability Confident
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.