Principal Engineer

Job Description

Overview

This role leads the design and delivery of civil engineering works for land development projects, including roads, earthworks, drainage, and utility coordination. Responsibilities cover all project stages—from feasibility and planning to detailed design and construction—ensuring compliance with relevant UK standards and client requirements. The position involves managing multidisciplinary teams, overseeing technical quality, budgets, and programmes, and coordinating with stakeholders such as local authorities, regulators, and developers. Strong expertise in infrastructure design tools (Civil 3D, BIM), regulatory approvals, and leadership skills are essential, along with Chartered Engineer status and proven experience in large-scale development projects.

Your role

• Experience of 15+ years in relevant engineering fields is recommended.
• Detailed knowledge of the fundamental concepts, principles, and theories of system integration as applied to multi-disciplinary designs.
• Project Technical Leader on large or complex multi-disciplinary projects.
• Consistently produces concept and feasibility solutions.
• Works as a Project Technical Leader on large complex projects / Project Technical Reviewer on large complex projects Driving the right behaviours within organization for digital initiatives to improve business performance productivity.
• Professional Head of Discipline or possibly leading a subset technology as Technical Authority.
• Track record of delivering projects of increasing complexity to time, cost, and quality.
• Coordination and development of innovation on a divisional basis.
• Comprehensive understanding of management processes related to technical integration and associated analytical/investigative approaches.
• Detailed understanding of principles of assurance and compliance as defined and applied within the relevant industry environment.
• Comprehensive understanding of supporting pan design disciplines such as Engineering Safety Management, Human Factors and Sustainability.
• High level of accountability. Drives the strategic direction of an aspect of the business to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Innovative and creative. Can devise multiple solutions to any problem.
• Provides significant overall thought leadership and technical capability(ies) and sets the professional standards in their area.
• Can function as the Professional Head of Discipline, Technical Authority while actively leading coordination with other disciplines.
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.
• Demonstrates conceptual and innovative thinking to develop unprecedented solutions.
• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections, and persuades others, often at senior levels to adopt different points of view.

About you

• Strong knowledge of the fundamental concepts, principles, and theories of system integration as applied to multi-disciplinary designs and own discipline of wet utilities (Storm Water, Foul water, Potable water and Treated Sewage Effluent).
• Knowledge of international codes for US, Canada, UK, Middle East will be preferred.
• Understanding of sustainable solutions, sustainability requirements in the countries mentioned above.
• Leading projects from concept design stage through the life cycle of project.
• Able to understand a client’s requirements and bring the different technical solutions to influence.
• Acts as a Project Technical Leader or Technical Reviewer for large/complex projects.
• Attending/arranging multi-disciplinary project technical/financial review calls, client presentation meetings, internal lesson learned and strategic/technical workshops.
• Must have knowledge in bid proposals and management.
• Should be flexible and open to new ideas and ways of delivering the building places projects in a digital way. Should be proactive to implement digital tools/systems in projects for a more effective way to deliver projects.
• Strong understanding of management processes related to technical integration and associated analytical / investigative approaches.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of supporting pan design disciplines such as Engineering Safety Management, Human Factors and Sustainability.
• High level of accountability for Technical Delivery.
• Takes a leadership role and trusted to make decisions, typically at group / team level or within a specific area of the business.
• Works autonomously within established procedures and practices.
• Welcomes those with different or distinct perspectives, seeking to engage and harness disparate views at all levels of the organization.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
•  Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
• Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.