Principal Civil Structural Engineer
// Role Summary
Lead critical national infrastructure projects as a Principal Civil Structural Engineer in Plymouth. Contribute to national security by delivering innovative engineering solutions in a unique and challenging environment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead civil and structural engineering design packages from concept to completion.
- Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise to engineering teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and integrate design requirements.
- Ensure compliance with quality, safety, and governance standards.
- Manage multiple technical interfaces within multidisciplinary teams.
- Requires SC security clearance and sole UK nationality.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Join Babcock as a Principal Civil Structural Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth, and play a key role in creating a safe and secure world. This position offers an exciting opportunity to lead complex engineering projects supporting the UK's defence infrastructure within one of the country's most unique and technically challenging environments.
You will be part of a highly skilled team delivering innovative civil and structural engineering solutions, ensuring the safety, resilience, and long-term success of critical facilities. This role offers significant opportunities for professional growth and career development.
What You'll Do
Day-to-day, you will lead the delivery of civil and structural engineering design packages, providing technical leadership across projects from concept through to completion. Working within a multidisciplinary environment, you will influence major infrastructure programmes, engage with key stakeholders, and help solve complex engineering challenges that directly support national security.
- Leading the delivery of civil and structural engineering work packages to agreed scope, quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
- Managing technical design packages throughout the engineering lifecycle, from identified need through to handover.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and incorporate these into design solutions.
- Providing technical leadership, subject matter expertise, and guidance to engineering and design teams.
- Ensuring compliance with quality, safety, governance, and configuration management requirements across all activities.
This role is full-time, 35 hours per week, and offers hybrid working arrangements.
Essential Experience
- Demonstrable experience managing and delivering complex engineering design projects throughout the full design lifecycle.
- Strong background in civil and structural design within a comparable engineering or infrastructure environment.
- Knowledge of architectural design principles for industrial buildings and facilities.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary engineering teams and managing multiple technical interfaces.
- Experience in the design and substantiation of heavy civil engineering and building structures; experience with dry dock structures would be advantageous.
Qualifications
- Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional institution, or significant demonstrable engineering experience with the capability to achieve Engineering Council registration at Chartered level.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading benefit
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to building an inclusive culture. We are a disability confident committed employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.