Senior Engineer in Birmingham

We're looking for a Senior Structures Engineer to join our Design team based in Birmingham. Location: Birmingham - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required. 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 £45,000 per annum. Sector: Design Highways.

Join Kier Design's Structures Team and contribute to meaningful projects for clients including National Highways, TfL, SWTRA and Local Highway Authorities. You'll play a key role in delivering high‑quality structural engineering solutions across all project stages, from feasibility through to construction, ensuring every output meets client expectations and programme requirements.

Are you:

• An experienced Structures Engineer delivering highway structures design to UK standards?
• Comfortable acting as Lead Designer, managing technical inputs and outputs?
• Confident working across inspection, assessment, design and construction stages?
• Experienced with Eurocodes and relevant design software?
• Able to lead technical delivery with minimal supervision?
• Passionate about working for a collaborative, trusted and delivery‑focused organisation?

Do you:

• Hold a degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline?
• Be Chartered or Incorporated, or working towards this (MICE / MIStructE or equivalent)?
• Deliver technical outputs to agreed time, cost and quality targets?
• Carry out and authorise design checks including drawings, reports and certificates?
• Communicate effectively with clients, stakeholders and project teams?
• Hold a valid UK driving licence?

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Structures Engineer, you'll be working within the Structures team, supporting them in delivering highway structures design, inspection and assessment across a diverse project portfolio. Your day to day will include:

• Leading delivery of highway structures design, inspection and assessment from feasibility through to construction.
• Acting as Lead Designer, coordinating and managing technical outputs of project teams.
• Ensuring designs comply with standards, client briefs and quality management systems.
• Applying value engineering and innovation to improve safety, buildability and efficiency.
• Supporting and developing engineers, technicians and graduates within the team.

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Structures Engineer is great for you if:

• You hold a degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
• You're Chartered or Incorporated (MICE / MIStructE or equivalent), or working towards professional registration.
• You have experience delivering highway structures design to UK standards, including Eurocodes.
• You're comfortable managing technical delivery with minimal supervision and can communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders.
• You hold a Full driving licence.

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.

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.

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