Head of Capability
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 March 2026 |
| Location: | B4 7LR |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9893 |
Summary
We're looking for a Head of Capability to join our Kier 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 - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
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
As Head of Capability for Principal Design, you'll provide CDM and BSA leadership across all design contracts within Kier Design. You'll lead the development and implementation of our capability growth plan, collaborating with construction teams to win and successfully deliver multi-disciplinary projects while ensuring safety by design and client satisfaction.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Head of Capability, you'll be working within the Kier Design team, supporting them in providing CDM and BSA leadership across all design contracts within Kier Design, leading the development and implementation of our capability growth plan, collaborating with construction teams to win and successfully deliver multi-disciplinary projects while ensuring safety by design and client satisfaction..
Your day to day will include:
• Managing the delivery of the Principal Designer role as required by CDM regulations and the Building Safety Act • Leading on the preparation of fee proposals and taking bids successfully through governance • Coordinating with in-house design capability leaders to ensure effective resourcing of projects • Providing technical leadership and support to design teams in ensuring designs are safe to build and maintain • Promoting an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought and experience is actively encouraged
What are we looking for?
This role of Head of Capability is great for you if:
• You have a degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline with demonstrable industry experience at a similar level to this role and hold membership to a relevant professional body (ICE, CIHT)• You have experience in CDM regulations and Building Safety Act implementation • You're trusted to deliver what you promise, acting safely and ethically
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.
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 - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
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
As Head of Capability for Principal Design, you'll provide CDM and BSA leadership across all design contracts within Kier Design. You'll lead the development and implementation of our capability growth plan, collaborating with construction teams to win and successfully deliver multi-disciplinary projects while ensuring safety by design and client satisfaction.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Head of Capability, you'll be working within the Kier Design team, supporting them in providing CDM and BSA leadership across all design contracts within Kier Design, leading the development and implementation of our capability growth plan, collaborating with construction teams to win and successfully deliver multi-disciplinary projects while ensuring safety by design and client satisfaction..
Your day to day will include:
• Managing the delivery of the Principal Designer role as required by CDM regulations and the Building Safety Act • Leading on the preparation of fee proposals and taking bids successfully through governance • Coordinating with in-house design capability leaders to ensure effective resourcing of projects • Providing technical leadership and support to design teams in ensuring designs are safe to build and maintain • Promoting an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought and experience is actively encouraged
What are we looking for?
This role of Head of Capability is great for you if:
• You have a degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline with demonstrable industry experience at a similar level to this role and hold membership to a relevant professional body (ICE, CIHT)• You have experience in CDM regulations and Building Safety Act implementation • You're trusted to deliver what you promise, acting safely and ethically
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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