Drainage Design Team Leader

We're looking for a Drainage Design Team Leader to join our Transportation team based in our Design Office in Salford, Manchester.  You'll specialise in highways drainage, as well as expertise in water utilities and Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA).  This role within Kier Design Services contributes to impactful projects. A driving licence is an essential requirement for this position.  Could this be you?

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: Salford, Manchester - with occasional remote working available

Contract: Permanent Fulltime

Salary: £50k - £52k + car or car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

Responsibilities

As a Drainage Design Team Leader, you'll be responsible for leading, developing and enabling a strong team of effective resources to successfully delivery a portfolio of projects to established standards, timelines, and budgetary constraints across diverse design contracts.

Your day to day will include:

• Developing fee estimates and programmes from client briefing statements.
• Lead the team through technically challenging projects and/or solutions.
• Ensure latest design standards and lessons learnt are applied to projects and risk management in undertaken in relation to project delivery.
• Building strong relationships with all clients (internal and external) and stakeholders to continue building on the current reputation.

What are we looking for?

This role of Drainage Design Team Leader is great if you are:

• Chartered/Incorporated Engineer
• Civil Engineering degree - or a similar combination of qualifications and/or experience
• Experience in a similar role and successfully leading teams
• Project management qualification and/or experience

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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

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