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Job Title: Principal Civil Structural Engineer
Location: UK, Remote + Occasional travel to Plymouth, Devon
Vacancies: 1
Compensation: Up to £80 Per Hour PAYE
Role Type: Full time / Contract Role
Contract Length: 12 Months
Role ID: SF75695
At Babcock, our purpose is to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Principal Civil Structural Engineer, you'll play an important role in supporting this mission and contributing to work of national importance.
The Role
As a Principal Civil Structural Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll provide technical leadership across complex civil and structural engineering projects, helping to deliver critical facilities and infrastructure upgrades within a highly regulated environment. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, you'll influence engineering decisions, solve complex technical challenges, and ensure high-quality solutions are delivered safely, efficiently, and to exacting standards.
Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
- Leading the delivery of civil and structural engineering work packages, ensuring projects are delivered to scope, schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
- Providing technical leadership and specialist engineering expertise throughout the design lifecycle.
- Managing technical design packages from concept development through implementation, assurance, and handover.
- Reviewing engineering designs, calculations, and technical documentation, ensuring compliance with governance, safety, and quality standards.
- Supporting multidisciplinary teams, stakeholder engagement activities, technical risk management, and the development of junior engineers.
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This role is full time and is predominantly remote, with travel to Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth required depending on business needs.
Essential Experience
- Significant experience in civil and structural engineering design within complex infrastructure, engineering, or industrial projects.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and managing technical work packages.
- Strong understanding of engineering governance, safety, and quality requirements within regulated environments.
- Knowledge of, or the ability to interpret, American seismic design codes and standards.
- Experience within defence, nuclear, marine, rail, heavy industrial, or similarly regulated sectors.
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in Civil Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must hold or be able to achieve and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within Babcock are subject to national security clearance. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.
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About Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
At Babcock, we recognise that great talent comes from diverse backgrounds and ways of working. We are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive experience for all contingent workers. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email Babcock.Careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’.
We are also happy to discuss flexible working arrangements and alternative working patterns, where operational requirements permit.
Closing date: 10/09/2026
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