Engineer

We're looking for a Road Lighting Design Engineer to join our Design team based Nationwide.

Location: Nationwide - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Salary: Starting from £36,000 per annum

Sector: Design - Highways

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Join our collaborative Road Lighting Design team and play a vital role in delivering safe, sustainable lighting solutions for highways projects across the UK. You'll work with major clients including National Highways, Transport for London and Local Highway Authorities, contributing to projects that make a real difference to communities nationwide.

Are you…

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• A proactive engineer who takes ownership of your work and development?
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• A clear, confident communicator who works well with clients and teams?
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• Quality‑focused, safety‑aware, and professional in everything you deliver?
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• A positive team player with a “can‑do” attitude and strong accountability?
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• Analytical and solutions‑focused, using judgement to solve problems?
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• Passionate about working for a collaborative, trusted, and delivery‑focused organisation?
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Do you…

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• Deliver technical tasks to agreed time, cost and quality under direction?
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• Support feasibility studies, design reviews, costings and standards compliance?
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• Apply engineering techniques such as value engineering, calculations and spec reviews?
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• Raise risks and issues early to support high‑quality project outcomes?
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• Coach and support junior team members while building strong relationships?
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• Want to work for a highly regarded Main Contractor, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor?
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What will you be responsible for?

As a Road Lighting Design Engineer, you'll be working within the Design team, supporting them in delivering high-quality road lighting and electrical design solutions. Your day to day will include:

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• Delivering road lighting and electrical design tasks to agreed time, cost and quality standards
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• Preparing design calculations, drawings and reports using tools such as AutoCAD, Dialux, Lighting Reality and CableCalc
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• Developing safe, buildable and compliant design solutions in collaboration with project teams
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• Applying health & safety, quality and environmental requirements throughout the design process
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• Supporting junior team members and communicating effectively with clients and colleagues
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What are we looking for?

This role of Road Lighting Design Engineer is great for you if:

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• You hold an HNC/HND or Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
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• You're IEng qualified or working towards professional registration with the IET or ILP
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• You hold the ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma or equivalent road lighting expertise
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• You have experience in road lighting and electrical design within the highways sector
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• You hold a full driving licence
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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.