Assistant Design Engineer

Assistant Design Engineer - Kier Group

We're looking for an Assistant Design Engineer to join our Design team based in Waterbeach. Our 100‑strong Construction Engineering capability brings together a team of talented civil, structural and geotechnical engineers from a range of backgrounds, combining complex analysis, spatial design and an eye for the practical to deliver buildable solutions on site. We specialise in reimagining permanent designs to make them more buildable, designing temporary works and traffic management solutions, advising on the procedural management of temporary works, construction materials, ground engineering and surveying.

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 such as 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
:
Waterbeach, South Cambridgeshire

Hours
: 40 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

• Temporary works design and checking, above and below ground in all materials, integrated with permanent works design as applicable, tender and bid winning support including outline design schemes, feasibility studies, production and evaluation of concepts; focused on buildability, efficiency and innovation; enabling cost estimates to be developed.
• Delivery of alternative solutions and value engineering, enhancing Kier's competitive position, technical assessment and review of 3rd party designs, ensuring compliance with the brief to meet client and Kier requirements.
• Provision of a technical help desk, providing engineering expertise and technical advice to support understanding; acting as a centre of engineering excellence, enhancing Kier's reputation for delivering engineered outcomes.
• Resolution of technical project, construction and design issues, incidents, defects and failures; incident investigation, examining causes of failure, rectification analysis, review, advice and redesign, supporting the SHE Department.
• Identification of technical risks and solutions to facilitate scoping, pricing, design and construction, site visits, surveys and inspections, reporting and advising on SHE issues; attending internal and external meetings on Kier's behalf; periodically working as an embedded part of tender and construction teams.

• Practical industry‑relevant experience.
• Hold Level 6 or Level 7 qualifications.

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.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #construction revolution #joinkier