Design Team Leader - Bristol, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Bristol, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a Team Leader to join our Highways team based in Bristol to take the lead and manage a team to prepare scheme designs, design checks, feasibility reports and overall technical support on various Highway design contracts within Kier Design & Technology Services.

Current contracts include Local Authority Highway Works, National Highways Area & Regional Contracts particularly Major Projects A66 NTP and M6 Emergency Laybys.

Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, a car or car allowance, competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave 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:
Bristol - remote working available with travel to the office

Contract:
Permanent, flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

Salary:
£45K-53K

Responsibilities
As Team Leader, you'll be working under broad direction with little supervision, managing own time effectively establishing own milestones, deadlines and team objectives and delegates responsibility to ensure projects are completed in a timely and cost-effective way

Your day to day will include:

Provide design support to the Design Manager and highways design team(s) overseeing the preparation of technical drawings, specifications and design calculations. Reviewing work of other professional staff and may direct a team and/or a unique element of a project
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
Maintain good relations with the Client and other authorities, attending meetings as necessary

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

Experience in a similar role within highways design, working on National Highways / Local Authority schemes in the UK
Chartered member accreditation or working towards
Experience in overseeing and mentoring junior members of staff and liaising with a variety of stakeholders

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
Life Assurance
24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
Kier's 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: 6 June 2023