Principal Civil Engineer

Principal Civil Engineer

Initial 12 Month Contract

West Burton site, Nottingham – 3 days per week on site, 2 days per week working from home

Inside IR35 – UMBRELLA or PAYE set up

Successful candidates would be required to obtain BPSS clearance

A Principal Civil Engineer is required to work on a 12 month contract basis to be based in Nottingham. This role will be site based but will provide the flexibility to work from home 2 days per week.

The ideal candidate will have experience of greenfield projects as well as experience of design authority. The role will require ownership of the whole plant civil strategy such as technical policy and facility integration ideally within a Nuclear capacity but also open to other similar sectors.

Required Outcomes

• A coherent civil and facilities design vision aligned with project requirements, safety expectations and target maturity, including a clearly defined and controlled civil design basis.
• Integrated civil designs that enable safe construction, operation and maintenance of the plant.
• Clear governance, standards and design controls for civil, structural and infrastructure engineering.
• As the Principal Civil Engineer, you will have visibility of civil design risks, interfaces, assumptions and dependencies, with explicit capture and progressive validation of assumptions under conditions of uncertainty.
• Design artefacts suitable for internal governance, DCO progression and regulatory scrutiny, including support to safety case development and substantiation in a novel regulatory context.

Scope of Services

The service shall cover civil engineering, buildings, structures, groundworks and site-wide infrastructure required to support the plant, including systems interfaces and facilities integration. It applies across concept, definition and delivery phases and includes support to DCO development and construction readiness. The service will operate at the interface between plant design, site development, safety and programme delivery, ensuring alignment across highly coupled and evolving system boundaries.

Key Service Requirements

• Define and maintain the civil plant design vision, principles, objectives and high-level requirements.
• Provide authoritative civil and structural engineering leadership within the Design Authority framework, acting as the technical authority for acceptance of civil and structural design outputs.
• As the Principal Civil Engineer, you will establish and operate civil engineering governance, standards and review arrangements.
• Ensure integration and design integrity between civil facilities, fusion plant systems and site infrastructure.
• As the Principal Civil Engineer, you will identify, manage and advise on civil and structural technical risk, safety and compliance matters, including risks arising from incomplete or evolving design inputs.
• Lead early-stage concept development in areas of low design maturity and translate outcomes into requirements.
• Support design maturity assessments and readiness for lifecycle progression, including DCO and construction, ensuring alignment with programme decision points and readiness criteria.
• As the Principal Civil Engineer, you will exercise independent engineering judgement, including providing challenge to design outputs and holding the line on design integrity under conditions of uncertainty.

Capability Expectations

The service provider shall demonstrate experience delivering civil and structural engineering leadership in complex, safety-critical or highly regulated environments, with strong systems integration capability, an understanding of CDM and statutory obligations, and the ability to operate effectively in novel, first-of-a-kind engineering programmes, including experience working with immature design baselines, managing high levels of uncertainty, and making robust engineering decisions in highly coupled, multi-disciplinary environments.