What's the role?
At Hilti, we’re always on the lookout for passionate engineering professionals ready to shape the future of construction. Whether your expertise lies in Mechanical, Structural, Civil, Materials, Chemical, Fire Engineering, or Building Information Modelling (BIM), we offer a highly dynamic and innovative environment where your skills can thrive—supported by world-class training, strong mentorship, and a global network of experts.
If you're collaborative, curious, and driven by solving complex challenges, we’d love to connect with you.
While our most current engineering and BIM roles are listed on our Careers Site, we understand that the perfect opportunity might not be available just yet and by joining our Engineering & BIM Talent Community, you’ll be the first to know about future openings and will allow our Talent Acquisition team to reach out when roles that align with your background and interests become available.
Please note: This is a Talent Community listing, not an active vacancy. It’s a great way to get in touch and be part of our Talent Community focused on our Engineering positions.
Who is Hilti?
At Hilti, we are a passionate global team committed to making construction better. As a trusted partner for productivity, safety, and sustainability, we provide our customers innovative solutions that impact the buildings, roads, and infrastructure people rely on every day.
Hilti is where individuals grow lasting careers by exploring possibilities, maximising their potential, owning their development, and making a real difference every day.
What does the role involve?
At Hilti, we offer a wide range of engineering roles across our divisions—each one contributing to our mission of delivering exceptional value to our customers.
Our specialist engineering teams work on solutions that include:
- Passive Fire / Firestop
- Facade
- BIM Design
- Field Engineering
Whether you're based in our Manchester office , collaborating behind the scenes on complex solutions including detailed designs or engineering judgments (EJs), or, out in the field meeting customers face-to-face and getting hands-on with the products and demonstrating engineering excellence, no two days are the same.
93% of our people say they’re proud to work for Hilti, thanks to the quality of our products and the way we look after our people.
What do we offer?
At Hilti you’ll part of something special – a place where you can grow, surrounded by colleagues who support you, and where your results will be recognised and rewarded.
Due to the varying nature of the positions the specific packages will be aligned during the application process with the Talent Acquisition team, however, at a minimum you can expect:
- Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
- 33 days holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus paid days off for great moments in life - your birthday, moving home, getting married and moments where you may need more support – fertility treatment, neonatal birth, home emergency day.
- You also have the opportunity to buy additional leave days each year.
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
- Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
- Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams
Our Regional Head Office is based at Circle Square in Central Manchester, where we’re located a short walk from Oxford Road train station and St Peter's Square tram stop. For those who are Manchester-based, we offer a hybrid working pattern between the office and home and different ways to work flexibly so please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
What you need is:
Please note, to progress your application it is essential you:
- Live within a commutable distance of Manchester, for HQ-based roles
- Have a full, current manual UK driving license and willingness to travel to meet customers, for field-based roles.
- Able to provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.
You will also need:
- You must hold at a minimum a Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering subject such as Civil, Mechanical, Structural, or another related field.
- Solution-oriented approach to provide our best-suited solutions across the industry.
- To share our values – commitment, teamwork, courage and integrity.
- Drive, curiosity and a motivated approach to achieve success and overcome challenges.
Please note: Each role is unique and will carry individual requirements depending on the position and the division.
Who should apply?
We’re more than just a company—we’re a community. At our core, we believe in empowering our employees to succeed both professionally and personally and supporting them every step of the way.
Click through the 'Apply Now' button where you will be asked to upload your CV and answer a couple of short questions – the whole process should take around 90 seconds.
If you need any support with your application, please contact gbcareers@hilti.com.
What you can expect when applying to a position with Hilti:
- We are committed to having all applications reviewed by a human and while nobody is infallible, we stand by our people centric approach to everything we do
- Once you submit your application you can expect to receive automated notifications from our system (triggered by our recruiting team)
- Applications that do not make it to the interview stage (with a hiring manager) will not receive personalized feedback.
- Our end-to-end recruitment process (including evaluation time and interviews) may last between 3 and 6 weeks. You can expect to hear back from us within 2-3 weeks (on average) regardless of outcome
- We wish you the best in your application process. Check out our career frequently asked questions for application and interview tips.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value the contributions of all our team members regardless of sex, gender identity/expression, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or family status.
