Senior Engineer
| Posting date: | 05 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2026 |
| Location: | B4 7LR |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9920 |
Summary
We're looking for a Senior Highways Engineer to join our Highways team based in Birmingham / Rushden. 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: Birmingham / Rushden - 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
Are you a passionate Highways Engineer looking to advance your career in a supportive and collaborative environment? Join our team where you'll develop concept, preliminary and detailed designs for a range of exciting highway and infrastructure projects. You'll work alongside talented professionals, have the opportunity to nurture your expertise, and make a real difference to the communities we serve.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Senior Highways Engineer, you'll be working within the Highways Design team, supporting them in delivering innovative and effective highway solutions, developing concept, preliminary and detailed designs for a range of exciting highway and infrastructure projects. You'll work alongside talented professionals, nurturing your expertise, and making a real difference to the communities we serve.
Your day to day will include:
-Undertaking feasibility, preliminary and detailed design of highway maintenance and improvement schemes using AutoCAD and preparing contract drawings
-Supporting and reviewing the work of other team members, fostering their development and growth
-Collaborating with other design disciplines in Common Data Environments to deliver integrated solutions
-Preparing fee estimates, design programmes, tender and contract documents
-Building relationships with clients and stakeholders, attending meetings as required
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Highways Engineer is great for you if:
-You have a degree in Civil Engineering or related field, with significant post-graduate experience in highways design
-You're a Chartered (CEng)/Incorporated (IEng) professional or working towards this qualification with ICE, CIHT or IHE
-You have experience with highways geometry, pavement design, signs & road markings, drainage, and vehicle restraint systems
-You're proficient with relevant software including AutoCAD, KeySigns, KeyLines, AutoTrack, and Civils 3D
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-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: Birmingham / Rushden - 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
Are you a passionate Highways Engineer looking to advance your career in a supportive and collaborative environment? Join our team where you'll develop concept, preliminary and detailed designs for a range of exciting highway and infrastructure projects. You'll work alongside talented professionals, have the opportunity to nurture your expertise, and make a real difference to the communities we serve.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Senior Highways Engineer, you'll be working within the Highways Design team, supporting them in delivering innovative and effective highway solutions, developing concept, preliminary and detailed designs for a range of exciting highway and infrastructure projects. You'll work alongside talented professionals, nurturing your expertise, and making a real difference to the communities we serve.
Your day to day will include:
-Undertaking feasibility, preliminary and detailed design of highway maintenance and improvement schemes using AutoCAD and preparing contract drawings
-Supporting and reviewing the work of other team members, fostering their development and growth
-Collaborating with other design disciplines in Common Data Environments to deliver integrated solutions
-Preparing fee estimates, design programmes, tender and contract documents
-Building relationships with clients and stakeholders, attending meetings as required
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Highways Engineer is great for you if:
-You have a degree in Civil Engineering or related field, with significant post-graduate experience in highways design
-You're a Chartered (CEng)/Incorporated (IEng) professional or working towards this qualification with ICE, CIHT or IHE
-You have experience with highways geometry, pavement design, signs & road markings, drainage, and vehicle restraint systems
-You're proficient with relevant software including AutoCAD, KeySigns, KeyLines, AutoTrack, and Civils 3D
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-MA1
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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.