Graduate Design Engineer

We're looking for Graduate Design Engineers to join our Kier Professional Services (KPS) team based across the UK., KPS are our in-house team of consulting engineers, providing permanent and temporary designs and technical support to our Construction, Transportation, Property and Natural Resources, Nuclear and Networks business divisions. As our centre of technical excellence, KPS are behind many of our innovation successes, adding value for our colleagues and clients every day. As a Graduate Design Engineer in KPS, you'll have exclusive access to our industry-leading portfolio of current and upcoming projects across the built environment. KPS support around 500 Kier projects each year, undertaking thousands of designs and providing a wide range of technical advice and related services. You will contribute to the delivery of a wide range of civil and structural designs and related services, providing solutions which are safe and buildable. This will include:

• Permanent designs for construction, transportation, infrastructure, property and utility services, as part of an integrated design and construct offering.
• Temporary Works design and checking, above and below ground in all materials, integrated with the permanent design as applicable.
• Tender and bid-winning support including outline design schemes, feasibility studies, production, and evaluation of concepts; focussed on buildability, efficiency and innovation; enabling cost estimates to be developed.
• Delivery of alternative solutions and value engineering, enhancing Kier's competitive position.
• Technical assessment and review of 3rd Party designs, ensuring compliance with the brief to meet client and Kier expectations.
• Resolution of technical project, construction and design issues, incidents, defects and failures; incident investigation, examining causes of failure, rectification analysis, review, advice and redesign.
How does the graduate scheme work? When you join, you will be enrolled onto our graduate scheme. The programme will take 2 years to complete and has been designed to equip you with the skills you need to excel in your chosen profession and help you achieve professional membership or chartership. You can find more details about our schemes here. Alongside the graduate programme, you'll also be enrolled to KPS's own bespoke technical development programme, providing 100 days of training during your first four years with the team. You'll be assigned a chartered engineer as a mentor to guide and support you achieving professional qualification with one of the UK's engineering institutions as soon as possible. A little later on, all of our senior employees are given the opportunity to complete a 13-month Management Development Programme, leading to Chartered Manager qualification with the Chartered Management Institute.

We're looking for people due to graduate in 2025, or have recently graduated within the past three years, with an Engineering Council accredited degree (Masters preferred) in civil, structural or geotechnical engineering. Ideally, you will have achieved, or be predicted to achieve, a 2:1 or better.,
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills, with a practical problem-solving mindset.
• Demonstrating Kier's core values of Collaborative, Trusted and Focused.
• Self-motivated, hard-working, willing to learn, punctual, organised and committed.
• Hold a full UK driver's licence.
  
  This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading construction and infrastructure services company on our structured graduate development programme. These programmes have been designed to provide you with the experiences and tools needed for progression within your chosen career., Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a high 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.