Highway Design Lead

3 weeks ago


Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

A key role for a Senior Design Engineer has become available in our Transportation team in Ipswich. In this position, you will lead a team in conducting investigations, feasibility studies, and preliminary and detailed designs for various local highway authority improvement and maintenance schemes. This includes working with internal and external commissioners, as well as engaging with operations teams and supply chain partners through 'ECI' to deliver highway projects.

Our team is working towards a future where transportation links by land, sea, or air are seamless. As a Senior Design Engineer, you will play a crucial role in achieving this goal. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Design Engineer, you will manage the local highway authority maintenance improvement schemes from drainage / footway improvements, new road signs, traffic regulation order schemes through to roundabout designs, junction improvements and public realm improvements, integrated with resolution of pre-existing maintenance needs. You will also manage the maintenance schemes from any aspect of hard landscaping and will include the management and scheduling of road closure requests for reactive, minor planned and general maintenance works.

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

  • Ensuring a coordinated approach between Kier, and any external commissioners in the preparation of designs, investigation, works instigation for subsequent adherence to agreed programme delivery dates
  • Preparing technical designs, drawings, documents specifications and other works information for infrastructure operations, assisting with the development of associated project management plans
  • Undertaking the responsibilities of 'Principal Designer' or 'Designer' by generating designer risk assessments and preparing pre-construction information in accordance with the CDM Regulations 2015 for construction works, as well as the production of the health and safety files
  • Controlling the scheme design programme and overall scheme budget for design and construction of smaller schemes

Requirements

This role of Senior Design Engineer is ideal for individuals with:

  • Proven experience of successfully delivering a range of complex projects in local highways engineering, highways design or similar technical disciplines
  • Good technical knowledge and awareness of highways design and maintenance techniques, including the appropriate application of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
  • Understanding of environmental legislation and recycling and how it affects maintenance and improvement schemes

We offer a range of benefits to our employees, including private healthcare and a competitive salary.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcome applications from individuals who share our values.


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