A great opportunity for a Senior Design Engineer to join our Transportation team in Ipswich. In this role, you will lead a team in conducting investigations, feasibility studies, and preliminary and detailed designs for various local highway authority improvement and maintenance schemes. This includes working with internal and external commissioners, as well as engaging with operations teams and supply chain partners through 'ECI' to deliver highway projects.  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: Ipswich- some remote working available, with travel to the office required Contract: Permanent Fulltime Salary: £42,500 - £47,500 per annum + private healthcare + benefits   Responsibilities As a Senior Design Engineer, you'll manage the local highway authority maintenance improvement schemes fromdrainage / footway improvements, new road signs, traffic regulation order schemes through to roundabout designs, junction improvements and public realm improvements, integrated with resolution of pre-existing maintenance needs.  You'll also the maintenance schemes from any aspect of hard landscaping and will include the management and scheduling of road closure requests for reactive, minor planned and general maintenance works Your day to day will include: Ensure a co-ordinated approach between Kier, and any external commissioners in the preparation of designs, investigation, works instigation for subsequent adherence to agreed programme delivery dates Prepare technical designs, drawings, documents specifications and other works information for infrastructure operations, assisting with the development of associated project management plans Undertake the responsibilities of ‘Principal Designer' or ‘Designer' by generating designer risk assessments and preparing pre-construction information in accordance with the CDM Regulations 2015 for construction works, as well as the production of the health and safety files Control the scheme design programme and overall scheme budget for design and construction of smaller schemes     What are we looking for? This role of Senior Design Engineer is great if you have: Proven experience of successfully delivering a range of complex projects in local highways engineering, highways design or similar technical disciplines Good technical knowledge and awareness of highways design and maintenance techniques, including the appropriate application of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges   Understanding of environmental legislation and recycling and how it affects maintenance and improvement schemes   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 alwaysdo 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. .   We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier #LI-JB2