Principal​/Associate Civil Engineer

Job Overview

Principal/Associate Civil Engineers are required to join our busy Infrastructure team to lead a variety of projects across health, defence, regeneration, leisure and other sectors. The role combines managerial and technical responsibilities, promoting a cooperative approach and inspiring teams to deliver projects on quality, budget and timescales. It offers a high degree of autonomy, ownership and opportunities for career progression.

• Lead and manage projects and multi‑disciplinary design teams, ensuring high‑quality design outputs.
• Control task budgets and support the development of staff competencies and career pathways.
• Support business development activities, creating commercial and technical responses to new opportunities.
• Promote collaboration across teams and inspire a culture of quality and efficiency.

• Professional qualification with an appropriate engineering institution (e.g. ICE, CIHT, PW|).

• Early stage optioneering.
• Comprehensive understanding of all stages of design from feasibility to detailed design.
• Experience leading infrastructure schemes through feasibility, concept, detailed design, construction, commissioning and operations.
• Project management skills covering procurement, requirements, technical assurance, risk and safety.
• Full awareness of Health & Safety legislation, CDM regulations and their application to the design process.

• Proven experience managing projects and leading multi‑disciplinary teams from bidding to delivery against contracted cost and programme.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, written and presentation – confident in client‑facing roles.
• Experience on UK public‑sector infrastructure projects.
• Competence to independently check and approve the work of others and knowledge of key design standards and guidance.
• Experience using digital design tools for production of deliverables, including BIM.

• Coaching, mentoring and developing people and teams.
• Knowledge of contract preparation, procurement and risk management.
• Appreciation of the operational and maintenance impacts of design solutions.

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5 % and 7 %.
• Life assurance equal to up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase to 6 × your salary.
• Income protection scheme providing financial benefits and absence/return‑to‑work support for long‑term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll savings and will writing.
• Annual bonus schemes as part of the independent ownership model.

• We are an employee‑owned business with no external investors.
• Employees have a stake and a voice in the business, with performance bonuses and direct pathways to ownership for senior roles.
• Career growth is connected to ownership, recognising long‑term impact and contribution.

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free menopause support for all UK colleagues.
• Extensive wellbeing support available through a comprehensive programme, including access for you and your family.
• Salaries can be flexed to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many extendable to family members.

• A minimum of 33–35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays, and the ability to buy or sell leave.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after five years’ service.
• Enhanced family leave: 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, two weeks paid paternity/partner leave, and up to five additional days for significant caring responsibilities (two paid).
• Enhanced parental leave matching maternity leave up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and retailer discounts.

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training and self‑development options.

• Access to Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+ , gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Ways to make a difference within communities through social outcomes.

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We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.