Principal Engineer

Overview

In this role you lead technical delivery for bridge and structural maintenance and refurbishment projects, with emphasis on post-tensioned concrete bridges. You will guide designs, ensure standards compliance, and collaborate across disciplines within a multi-disciplinary team. You’ll balance quality, schedule, and budget while supporting site work and client interfaces. This role offers meaningful impact on heritage and modern infrastructure projects and a path to leadership within the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery of small to medium work packages (inspection, assessment, design, or renewal schemes) to programme and budget
• Provide technical direction, checking, and approval of designs, calculations, and reports
• Ensure compliance with standards, specifications, and governance processes
• Contribute to planning, risk management, and commercial awareness on projects
• Attend site on an ad-hoc basis to suit National Highways’ programme of PTSI during night or day time shifts
• Provide on-site supervision for PTSI activities ensuring compliance with CS 465 and witness and log events as necessary to maintain accurate records
• Production of PTSI Interpretative Reports
• Mentor and guide junior engineers; support capability within the team
• Act as a key interface with clients and internal disciplines

Key requirements

• Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (or equivalent)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng MICE / MIStructE)
• Strong background in bridge/structures asset management, design and assessment
• Significant experience of post-tensioned concrete bridges and PTSI site supervision
• Proficient in relevant design codes, analysis methods and reporting, including National Highways procedures
• Demonstrable experience leading technical delivery of projects
• Effective communicator with ability to work across disciplines
• Driving license required

• Effective communicator
• ability to work across disciplines
• mentoring capability
• post-tensioned concrete bridges
• PTSI site supervision
• design codes and analysis methods

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