Benefits
Details
- Location:Nationwide
- Background check required:None
- Closing Date:23 May 2025
- Flexible working available:Yes

We're looking for a Senior Traffic Signals Design Engineer to join our Transportation team to provide support to clients and lead the development of traffic signal design projects on time, within budget and to the agreed standards. A full driving licence is essential as regular site visits for design and commissioning of traffic signal projects across the UK is a requirement for this position.
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: Nationwide - hybrid working with travel to sites required
Contract: Permanent Fulltime
Salary: £45,000 - £52,500 + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits
Responsibilities
Working as part of Kier Design in a broad versatile role that supports the end to end service model, from concept through design to delivery, into maintenance, including support and delivering of technology / ITS / traffic signal projects for both National Highways and Local Authorities.
Your day to day will include:
- Prepare and check feasibility studies, appraisal / assessment reports and other written documents
- Development of engineering solutions and presentation of engineering options
- Develop designs in accordance with the Client's requirements and relevant design standards to achieve cost effective solutions
- Produce and check design concepts, design details, drawings, specifications and other technical documents
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Traffic Signals Design Engineer is great if you have:
- Educated to HNC/HND/Degree level in a technical/engineering discipline or significant specialist experience in lieu of formal academic qualifications
- Significant post-qualification experience in traffic signal design
- Computer literate and thoroughly conversant with MS office suite and relevant engineering software packages such as AutoCad, KeySignals, Linsig etc
- An understanding of supporting factors such as health and safety, CDM, quality management and environmental management systems
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.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
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