Are you a Highways Design Engineer looking for your next career opportunity?
Kier Transportation has a great opportunity to join our team based in Ipswich.
In this role, you will carry out investigations, feasibility studies, and preliminary and detailed designs focussing on the local highways authority market supporting highway improvement and maintenance schemes for both internal and external commissioners.
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 : Ipswich - some remote working available, with travel to the office required Contract : Permanent Fulltime Salary : £35,000 - £42,500 per annum + benefits Responsibilities As a Design Engineer, you'll design local highways authority and maintenance improvement schemes which will range from 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'll also design 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 will include: Assist with investigations, site visits, preparation of solutions and proposals, consultation, detailed design and detailing of highway improvement and maintenance schemes for feasibility or construction Prepare technical designs, drawings, documents specifications and other works information for infrastructure operations, assisting with the development of associated project management plans Adhere to the CDM Regulations 2015 for construction works, as well as the production of the health and safety files Produce technical reports and proposals What are we looking for?
This role of Design Engineer is great if you have: Good technical knowledge and awareness of local highways design and maintenance techniques, including the appropriate application of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges Some experience of successfully delivering a range of complex projects in highways engineering, highways design or similar technical disciplines Knowledge of traffic management regulations, guidance and requirements 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 .
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