Job Title: Principal Civil Structural Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £57,300 – £82,300 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74430
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Civil Structural Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Principal Civil Structural Engineer, you’ll take a leading role in delivering complex civil and structural engineering projects from concept through to completion. Working on major infrastructure programmes, you'll provide technical leadership, oversee engineering design packages, and ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality solutions that support critical defence operations.
Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to influence nationally important projects while developing your career within a world-leading engineering organisation. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, engage with a wide range of stakeholders, and apply your expertise to challenging engineering problems that make a real difference to society.
- Leading the delivery of civil and structural engineering design packages to agreed scope, quality, schedule and cost requirements.
- Managing technical aspects of engineering projects from initial identification through to final handover.
- Coordinating stakeholder engagement activities and incorporating requirements into engineering solutions.
- Driving technical planning, design reviews and engineering assurance activities across complex infrastructure projects.
- Ensuring compliance with quality, safety, risk management and engineering governance requirements.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days onsite.
Essential experience of the Principal Civil Structural Engineer
- Demonstrable experience managing complex civil or structural engineering design projects throughout the full design lifecycle.
- Proven track record delivering civil and structural engineering designs within a highly regulated or comparable engineering environment.
- Knowledge of the architectural design of industrial buildings and associated structures.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary engineering teams with multiple technical interfaces.
- Experience in the design and substantiation of heavy civil engineering and building structures, with dry dock structure experience advantageous.
Qualifications for the Principal Civil Structural Engineer
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering or a related discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional institution, or significant demonstrable engineering experience with the capability to achieve Chartered Engineer registration.
- Membership of a relevant engineering institution is desirable.
- Knowledge of relevant seismic design standards and nuclear safety-related structures would be advantageous.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. 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 (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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.
We are a disability confident, committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 23/09/2026
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