Principal Engineer

Jacobs Leeds, England Dec 24, 2025

Type Contract
Pay Not listed
Work Hybrid
Level Senior

Principal Engineer focuses on collaborate across disciplines to deliver integrated, high-quality services to clients.

What the role involves

  • Collaborate across disciplines to deliver integrated, high-quality services to clients.
  • Ensure efficient, successful project outcomes.
  • Let’s build for a brighter future together.
  • 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

  • A degree in Civil or Structural Engineering or a related discipline.
  • A professional qualification.
  • We are particularly interested to hear from candidates with experience in asset management, structures renewals and post-tensioned structures, including post-tensioned special insp.
  • Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better.

Confirmed role details

  • Lead and mentor teams in structural analysis, feasibility studies, tender and detailed designs, and the preparation of contract documents and technical reports.
  • 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

  • Excellent communication, collaboration and time management skills.
  • Strong technical design and practical problem-solving skills.

Additional role context

  • Champion innovative thinking and diverse perspectives to identify best-value solutions.
  • Work closely with our UK and Global Integrated Delivery teams to optimise resources.
  • Project management skills related to bridge design or other disciplines.
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