Design Team Leader - Manchester, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a Design Team Leader to join our Highways team based in Salford, Manchester.

Initially working on the HS2 Enabling Civils Works Contract you'll be responsible for a team producing highways designs, drawings, reports and supporting documentation in accordance with the brief, timescales and budgetary allocation.

Within this role, you can enjoy private health care, company car or car allowance, one professional subscription funded to support your professional development and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference.

Connecting roads, connecting people.

Location:
Salford, Manchester - remote working with the need to attend the office as required (usually weekly) to meet the team

Contract:
Permanent, Fulltime

Salary:
£competitive

Responsibilities

As a Highways Design Team Leader, you'll lead a team consisting of Senior Engineers, Engineers, Technicians and Graduates and taking responsibility for designs, drawings and reports produced to meet the client requirements.

Your day to day will include:

ensuring that deliverables are produced to programme, following Kier processes and procedures as well as the Client specific requirements

- identifying design solutions and ensuring their compliance with the requirements of the DMRB and other relevant design standards, health and safety legislation and CDM Regulations.
- collaborating with other design disciplines and the Principal Contractor
- attendance and representing Kier at Client meetings
- supporting the design and project managers in the reporting of progress to clients including review of completion against planned programme

Who are we looking for?
This role of Design Team Leader is great for you if you are a:

Chartered / Incorporated member of a relevant professional institution (MICE / MICIHT or equivalent)

- demonstrable broad in-depth experience in inspection, design, and construction of highway schemes to UK standards
- full driving licence

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- a fantastic matched pension scheme
- a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
Green Car Scheme

Who is Kier?

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress.

We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

Closing date: 20 March 2023

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