Kier Group
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We're looking for a Bridge Engineer to join our Structures & Geotechnical team based in Birmingham.
Location: Birmingham
Hours: 37.5 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Salary: Starting from £38,000 per annum
Sector: Structures and Geotechnical – Highways Structures
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As a Bridge Engineer within our Structures Team at Kier Design, you'll play a key role in delivering a wide range of high-profile infrastructure projects. These include National Highways Major Projects, National Highways SDF, TfL frameworks, Northamptonshire schemes, and South Wales Trunk Road Agency (SWTRA) contracts, among others.
You'll be responsible for the production of technical designs and documentation, supporting the Lead Engineer to successfully deliver highways structures maintenance and new-build schemes—ensuring projects meet client requirements, on time and within budget.
Are you…
- Degree qualified in Civil Engineering (or HNC/HND equivalent)?
- Working towards or achieved IEng / CEng (MICE, MIStructE or equivalent)?
- Experienced in the inspection, assessment or design of highways structures?
- Familiar with Eurocodes and UK standards (DMRB, MCHW)?
- A proactive team player with strong technical and analytical skills?
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Do you…
- Want to work on nationally significant highways projects?
- Enjoy developing practical, buildable engineering solutions?
- Take ownership of producing high-quality technical designs and reports?
- Thrive working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams?
- Have the drive to meet targets and deliver work with minimal supervision?
- Want to work for a highly regarded Main Contractor, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor?
What will you be responsible for?
As a Bridge Engineer, you'll support the delivery of structures schemes within the Kier Design team, including:
- Producing technical designs, calculations, drawings and reports
- Supporting Lead Engineers on project delivery
- Assisting with maintenance and new-build structures schemes
- Ensuring designs meet client briefs, standards and programme requirements
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
What are we looking for?
This role of Bridge Engineer is great for you if you:
- Have a degree, HNC or HND in Civil Engineering
- Are working towards IEng or CEng status
- Have experience or knowledge of structures design (maintenance or new build)
- Have understanding of DMRB, MCHW and CDM regulations
- Have experience within an engineering consultancy environment
- Have strong teamwork, communication and time management skills
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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. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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