Senior Design Engineer required to lead investigations, feasibility studies, and designs for local highway authority improvement and maintenance schemes.
A great opportunity to join our Transportation team in Ipswich, where you will work with internal and external commissioners, operations teams, and supply chain partners to deliver highway projects. Your journey is our journey, and together we are working to make a difference in the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Key Responsibilities:
* Manage local highway authority maintenance improvement schemes, including drainage, footway improvements, new road signs, traffic regulation order schemes, roundabout designs, junction improvements, and public realm improvements.
* Ensure a coordinated approach between Kier and external commissioners in the preparation of designs, investigation, and works instigation.
* Prepare technical designs, drawings, documents, specifications, and other works information for infrastructure operations.
* Undertake responsibilities of 'Principal Designer' or 'Designer' by generating designer risk assessments and preparing pre-construction information.
* Control the scheme design programme and overall scheme budget for design and construction of smaller schemes.
Requirements:
* Proven experience of delivering 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 Design Manual for Roads and Bridges.
* Understanding of environmental legislation and recycling and its impact on maintenance and improvement schemes.
Rewards and Benefits:
We offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs, including private healthcare and benefits.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, where our employees can shape our diversity and inclusion initiatives and policies.