Lead Civil Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage contractor engineering support across the project lifecycle 🧩
• Review, approve, and assure designs, drawings, and technical documentation 📐
• Shape functional requirements and support optioneering and design decisions 🔍
• Deliver safety-critical outputs, including Periodic Review of Safety reports 🛡️
• Chair and contribute to design reviews, HAZID workshops, and stakeholder forums 🗣️
• Provide independent technical appraisal and peer review (ITA/IPR) ✅
• Oversee detailed design, construction, commissioning, and decommissioning activities 🏗️
• Ensure full compliance with EHS, Security, Quality, and site standards 📋
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to internal teams and external partners 🤝
• Contribute to capability building and specialist training within your discipline 🎓
• Essential
• Proven experience delivering civil / structural engineering on complex, high-hazard projects 🏗️
• Strong background in design assessment of structures and equipment to withstand safety and hazard conditions 🛡️
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying design assurance frameworks for complex engineering programmes ✔️
• Theoretical and practical expertise across the full engineering lifecycle , ideally within industrial and/or maritime environments 🔄
• Confident stakeholder engagement across multidisciplinary engineering teams 🤝
• Experience contributing to multi-discipline projects , including provision of electrical engineering input (ideally defence and/or nuclear) ⚡
• Desirable
• Experience working within a comparable high-risk, regulated environment 🚢
• Familiarity with safety case development , including HAZID / HAZOP studies 🔍
• Experience within the UK nuclear sector (energy or defence), particularly safety-related structures and components ☢️
• Working knowledge of UK and US nuclear regulation , codes, and standards 📘
• Experience across nuclear, civil, and defence sectors 🌍
• Proven experience in engineering lifecycle management 📊
• QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
• Essential
• Accredited Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (or equivalent qualification and experience) 🎓
• Relevant qualifications and experience in marine and mechanical engineering ⚙️
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status 🏅
• Desirable
• Master's-level accredited degree or equivalent advanced qualification 🎓➕
• Why Join the Switchers Community?
• 🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions
• 🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects
• 🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text
• 🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs
• 🔹Enhanced sick pay
• Limited travel to the main Client operational bases site near Helensburgh may be required, for example for Facility Walkdowns, however, the role would typically be expected to be conducted in a hybrid arrangement from Glasgow City Centre (weekly, 3 days office, 2 days WFH).
• Staff or umbrella contractor.
• Security clearance:
• Due to the nature of work to be undertaken applicants will be required to meet certain residency criteria in order to attain a minimum level of UK security clearance if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

Benefits

Additional Information

Position Overview: The Lead Civil/Structural Engineer will be working as part of our client team to deliver a range of major infrastructure projects. Drive complex engineering projects from concept to completion in a high-assurance environment. This role is hands-on, stakeholder-facing, and central to safe, compliant delivery. 💼⚙️

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