Assistant Design Engineer

4 weeks ago


Rushden, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

We're looking for an Assistant Design Engineer to join our Transportation team based in Rushden.

 

Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

 

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

 

Location: Rushden with hybrid working available

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime

Salary: £30k - £34k + Benefits

 

Responsibilities

As an Assistant Design Engineer, you will assist in the development and preparation of concept, preliminary and design of a range of highway and infrastructure projects. You will be supporting team in delivering work streams and show innovative ideas for improvement in the Kier and Highways work stream.

 

Your day to day will include:

  • Work closely with other engineering professionals and learn/apply appropriate methodologies and standards to produce effective and innovative solutions for the schemes and studies
  • Assisting in preparation of technical drawings, specifications, and design calculations
  • Participate in answering on-going clarifications/queries as needed
  • Assisting in preparation of fee estimates, design programmes, tender and contract documents. Making a positive contribution towards bids and project proposals making suggestions for new areas of work
  • Take part in the development of engineering options for a proposal so that full consideration is given to safety, reliability, operational capacity modelling, maintainability, ease of construction, and environmental issues.

 

What are we looking for?

 

This role of Assistant Design Engineer is great for you if you have:

 

  • Degree in Civil Engineering, Highways Engineering, Transportation and Transport planning
  • Post-graduate experience in the UK's civil engineering / highway engineering / highway maintenance
  • Experience and knowledge about highways geometry, pavement design, signs and road markings, drainage, vehicle restraint systems (including RRRAP preparation)
  • UK driving licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

 

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.

 

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

 

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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