Principal Civil Engineer

AECOM Bristol, England May 22, 2026

Type Full Time
Pay Not listed
Work Hybrid
Level Senior

Principal Civil Engineer focuses on provide strategic civil engineering leadership and technical governance for data centre projects, ensuring compliance with aecom standards and regulatory requirements.

What the role involves

  • Provide strategic civil engineering leadership and technical governance for data centre projects, ensuring compliance with AECOM standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle.
  • Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM Un.

Skills and requirements

  • Degree qualified in Civil Engineering or related discipline.
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng MICE or equivalent) or operating at chartered level with demonstrated leadership and professional authority.
  • Extensive experience delivering complex civil infrastructure projects, ideally in data centres, mission-critical, or large-scale developments.
  • Strong knowledge of planning, highways, drainage, and utility approval processes.

Candidate fit

  • technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving
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