Civil Design Engineer

weServed; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holidays

Pension + life assurance

Digital GP & health check

Shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Reservist leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock, a UK-based defence and security contractor, seeks a Civil Design Engineer to help deliver rail infrastructure projects across the UK. Based in Birmingham or Hamilton with hybrid patterns, you will design and check civil assets for on-site construction.

You will collaborate with Design Managers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, compliant, and cost-effective solutions, contributing to important national rail schemes and related infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience producing civil engineering designs for rail, infrastructure, energy, or similar sectors.
• Proficient in Autodesk AutoCAD for design production and checks.
• Experience designing foundations, retaining walls, platforms, or lineside structures.
• Ability to work independently within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Producing civil engineering designs, drawings, calculations and documentation for rail projects.
• Checking engineering designs for quality, compliance and technical accuracy.
• Designing foundations, retaining walls, station platforms, lineside structures.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver projects safely, efficiently and to programme.
• Supporting technical governance, design quality and project delivery objectives.

Skills

Rail design experience

AutoCAD

Foundations & walls

Independent worker

Programme delivery

Education

Bachelors in Civil Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Job Title: Civil Design Engineer

Location: UK, Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75184

Shape the future of critical rail infrastructure

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Civil Design Engineer.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Rail Systems business, delivering civil engineering solutions that support major rail and infrastructure projects across the UK. You'll play a key role in producing designs that are ultimately constructed on site, helping to improve and maintain infrastructure that communities depend on every day.

The role

As a Civil Design Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Working within our Civils Design team, you'll be responsible for producing and checking detailed engineering designs for a range of rail infrastructure projects, including foundations, retaining walls, station platforms and lineside structures.

You'll collaborate with Design Managers, Senior Engineers and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, compliant and cost-effective engineering solutions. This is an excellent opportunity to strengthen your technical expertise while contributing to the growth of a highly respected rail engineering function.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Producing civil engineering designs, drawings, calculations and technical documentation for rail infrastructure projects.
• Checking and reviewing engineering designs to ensure quality, compliance and technical accuracy.
• Designing foundations, retaining walls, station platforms, lineside structures and similar civil engineering assets.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver projects safely, efficiently and to programme.
• Supporting technical governance, design quality and project delivery objectives.

This role is full time and is based at our Birmingham or Hamilton office. Hybrid working patterns are available, with the team typically working towards three days per week on site. Working hours are 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with flexible working arrangements available.

Essential experience of the Civil Design Engineer:

• Demonstrable experience producing civil engineering designs within rail, infrastructure, energy, water or similar sectors.
• Experience using Autodesk AutoCAD to produce and check engineering designs.
• Experience designing foundations, retaining walls, station platforms, lineside structures or similar infrastructure assets.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience delivering engineering designs to programme and quality requirements.

Qualifications for the Civil Design Engineer:

Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent engineering qualification.

Security Clearance

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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 [e-mail] 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: 21/09/2026

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