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Published on 24/10/2025
Reference No. 7388
Job location Falmer
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Description

 

PROJECT ENGINEER  

 

Meet the recruiter 

Christian Held 

 

Benefits 

 

Life assurance

 

Private medical insurance

 

Additional holiday purchase opportunities

 

Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%

 

Enhanced family leave & policies

 

Share plan schemes

 

Free health & wellbeing services

 

Green car scheme

 

Project Engineer 

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Project Engineer.We’re currently recruiting for a Project Engineer to join our water team working closely with our strategic partner Southern Water to deliver a range of clean water and wastewater projects under the AMP8 Framework. In this role you’ll report to the Project Manager and providing management and engineering support to deliver the design development, construction, commissioning, and transfer into use supply of various water and wastewater projects during AMP8.

 

Location: Flexible and will vary depending on the location of the project.

Contract: Permanent, full time- some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

 

What will you be responsible for? 

As a Project Engineer, you’ll be working within the Southern Water team, supporting them in ensuring the project is delivered in line with Kier’s and Thames Water’s KPIs.

Your day to day will include:

    • Analysing and interpreting preconstruction information (PCI), Southern Water standards, and industry good practise, to ensure design solutions meet their requirements.
    • Solving problems and ensuring the development of coordinated and integrated design solutions relating to Mechanical or Civils work scope.
    • Ensuring the production of all necessary design deliverables by supply chain partners such as specifications, models, drawings, data sheets and schedules required for the delivery of the project.
    • Ensuring that design solutions include specific design risk assessments and consider innovation, best value, safety, and delivery programme.

Collaborating with the procurement team in identification, selection, technical appraisal and appointment of suppliers and sub-contractors to deliver the Mechanical work scope.

 

What are we looking for?

This role of Project Engineer is great for you if you hold:

    • Relevant technical qualification (NVQ L3 / HNC / Degree) and membership of a relevant Professional Body/Institution.
    • Demonstrable experience within the water sector or similar regulated sector.
    • Demonstrable experience of significant contributions to hazard reduction workshops such as Structured What-If-Technique (SWIFT), Access, Lifting & Maintenance (ALM), HAZ-ID, or similar workflows.

Knowledge and experience of the main management systems and processes used within a similar large multidisciplinary design and build projects.

 

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.

 

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

 

There’s never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

 

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-CH1

  • Project Engineer – Job Description.pdf
  • Location: Falmer
  • Vacancy ID: 7388
  • Background check: None
  • Flexible Working: Yes
    Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.