Lead Civil Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead civil/structural engineering efforts on major infrastructure within a high‑assurance, safety‑critical environment. You will work closely with client teams and external partners to shape designs, assure technical integrity, and deliver across concept to completion. The role emphasizes responsible engineering, governance, and capability building, with a focus on decommissioning, safety, and compliance. This is an opportunity to influence large-scale nuclear projects and contribute to the UK energy transition.

Pay / Benefits

• employee assistance programme with wellbeing resources
• cycle to work scheme
• eye test and glasses vouchers
• free flu jabs
• enhanced sick pay
• hybrid working (Glasgow)

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage contractor engineering support across the project lifecycle
• Review, approve, and assure designs, drawings, and technical documentation
• Shape functional requirements and support optioneering and design decisions
• Deliver safety-critical outputs, including Periodic Review of Safety reports
• Chair and contribute to design reviews, HAZID workshops, and stakeholder forums
• Provide independent technical appraisal and peer review (ITA/IPR)
• Oversee detailed design, construction, commissioning, and decommissioning activities
• Ensure full compliance with EHS, Security, Quality, and site standards
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to internal teams and external partners
• Contribute to capability building and specialist training within your discipline

Key requirements

• Proven experience delivering civil / structural engineering on complex, high-hazard projects
• Strong background in design assessment of structures and equipment to withstand safety and hazard conditions
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying design assurance frameworks for complex engineering programmes
• Theoretical and practical expertise across the full engineering lifecycle, ideally within industrial and/or maritime environments
• Confident stakeholder engagement across multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Experience contributing to multi-discipline projects, including provision of electrical engineering input (ideally defence and/or nuclear)

• Stakeholder engagement
• Multidisciplinary collaboration
• Clear communication
• Design assessment of structures and equipment
• Design assurance frameworks
• Full engineering lifecycle knowledge

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