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2025-08-16 00:00:27Bridge of HopeCompany Logo

Drainage Design Team Leader

Ref: kier-6432
Kier
Transport & Infrastructure
£50,000

We're looking for a Drainage Design Team Leader to join our Design team based in Salford.  You'll utilise your extensive experience in delivering successful flood, water management, and drainage projects to achieve exceptional outcomes for a diverse range of clients, including National Highways, local authorities, water industry clients, and significant major projects like the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine. Your dedication to continuous improvement and development will ensure excellence across all 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: Salford - Office based with some remote working available

Contract: Permanent Fulltime

Salary: £50,000 - £57,500 + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

 

Responsibilities

As a Drainage Design Team Leader, you'll be responsible for leading a team of skilled designers in delivering high-value, high-quality drainage schemes to support the Drainage Design Manager in executing the drainage strategy.

Your day to day will include:

  • Maintain the highest standards of quality and project controls established by the team and wider business
  • Ensure latest design standards and lessons learnt are applied to projects
  • Liaise with statutory and non-statutory bodies to obtain relevant data, licences, and consents
  • Drive technical excellence and continued improvement across the team
  • Monitor project delivery and undertaking change control management

 

What are we looking for?

This role of Drainage Design Team Leader is great if you have:

  • Civil Engineering degree - or a similar combination of qualifications and/or experience
  • Experience in a similar role and successfully leading teams to deliver projects
  • Project management qualification and/or experience
  • CSCS card

 

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.

 

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

 

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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Salford, United Kingdom
Kier
Transport & Infrastructure
£50,000
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