Lead Civil Engineer

Jacobs Belfast, Northern Ireland Dec 24, 2025

Type Contract
Pay Not listed
Work Hybrid
Level Senior

Lead Civil Engineer focuses on working closely with the full delivery team, contributing your own innovative ideas, challenging the norm, and helping deliver better solutions.

What the role involves

  • Working closely with the full delivery team, contributing your own innovative ideas, challenging the norm, and helping deliver better solutions.
  • Leading multi-disciplinary teams to develop high quality, sustainable flood risk management solutions.
  • Mitigate environmental impact at the outset to provide integrated design solutions.
  • Manage and mitigate project risk.
  • With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential.

Skills and requirements

  • Experience in leading design delivery, including multidisciplinary design.
  • Knowledge of current UK design standards, guidance and working practices.
  • Excellent commercial, contractual and programme experience.
  • Proven experience mentoring and developing colleagues and peers.

Confirmed role details

  • We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best.

Candidate fit

  • Contribute to an engaged and supportive team environment taking an active role in mentoring and professional development (self and colleagues).

Additional role context

  • Tackle challenging engineering problems to find affordable, sustainable solutions whilst adhering to all Design quality assurance standards.
  • Address climate change increases in flood risk and the need to push down cost and carbon footprint.
  • Contribute to a collaborative delivery approach, supporting clients with their stakeholder engagement (public, flood risk management authorities).
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