Senior Engineer
| Posting date: | 24 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 March 2026 |
| Location: | B4 7LR |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9982 |
Summary
We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Structural and Geotechnical Engineering Team based in London, Birmingham, or Manchester. 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
Location: London, Birmingham, or Manchester - 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
What will you be responsible for?As a Senior Engineer, you'll be working within the Structures Team, supporting them in delivering technical excellence across contracts like National Highways Major Projects, National Highways SDF, TfL, Northamptonshire, South Wales Trunk Road Agency Contract (SWTRA) and many more.
Your day to day will include:
-Leading and managing the delivery of technical outputs, acting as Lead Designer on team projects
-Contributing to technical excellence and innovation across inspection, assessment, and design of highway structures
-Scheme investigation, site and structure inspections, data collection and analysis, feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed design
-Preparing tender documents, works / construction inspection and supervision progressing scheme design, development and construction
-Communicating, delivering and implementing improvements to SHEQ within all aspects of projects
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Engineer is great for you if:
-You have a degree in a relevant engineering discipline and are approaching or have achieved Chartered / Incorporated status with a professional institution
-You bring demonstrable experience in inspection, assessment, and design of highway structures to UK standards
-You're comfortable with relevant design software and familiar with Eurocodes / knowledge and experience of the main management systems & processes used within a similar business
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. 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
Location: London, Birmingham, or Manchester - 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
What will you be responsible for?As a Senior Engineer, you'll be working within the Structures Team, supporting them in delivering technical excellence across contracts like National Highways Major Projects, National Highways SDF, TfL, Northamptonshire, South Wales Trunk Road Agency Contract (SWTRA) and many more.
Your day to day will include:
-Leading and managing the delivery of technical outputs, acting as Lead Designer on team projects
-Contributing to technical excellence and innovation across inspection, assessment, and design of highway structures
-Scheme investigation, site and structure inspections, data collection and analysis, feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed design
-Preparing tender documents, works / construction inspection and supervision progressing scheme design, development and construction
-Communicating, delivering and implementing improvements to SHEQ within all aspects of projects
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Engineer is great for you if:
-You have a degree in a relevant engineering discipline and are approaching or have achieved Chartered / Incorporated status with a professional institution
-You bring demonstrable experience in inspection, assessment, and design of highway structures to UK standards
-You're comfortable with relevant design software and familiar with Eurocodes / knowledge and experience of the main management systems & processes used within a similar business
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. 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
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
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.