At Kier, we're proud to be shaping the future of the built environment.

As a Technical Director within our M&E Services business (KME), you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, sustainable construction projects across the UK.

This is your opportunity to lead with purpose, drive innovation, and make a lasting impact on the communities we serve.

📍 Location: National (Agile working available by agreement)
📅 Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
📢 Business Area: Kier Construction – Kier Mechanical & Electrical (KME)

What can you expect to be doing?

As Technical Director, you'll report to the Regional Director and provide strategic and functional leadership across our MEP services. You'll be responsible for:

• Leading operational performance, consistency, and standards across pre-construction, delivery, and aftercare.
• Driving compliance with SHE, environmental, planning, and technical standards—including the Building Safety Act.
• Championing digital transformation through tools like Biosite, Novade, Procore, and Power BI.
• Shaping and delivering quality business plans, SHE strategies, and 90-day plans.
• Inspiring and developing high-performing teams, fostering a culture of inclusion, wellbeing, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborating with senior leaders to enhance customer delivery through modern methods of construction and digital innovation.

What will you bring to the table?

• Proven leadership in MEP or construction environments, ideally across both public and private sectors.
• Strong understanding of SHE, quality, planning, and digital systems.
• Experience across large-scale projects (£5m–£200m) with agility and strategic foresight.
• A collaborative, emotionally intelligent leadership style that empowers teams and drives results.
• Passion for innovation, sustainability, and developing future talent.

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.

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 #LI-AS2