Principal/ Chief Civil Engineer (Rail Projects)

slihrms; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Principal or Chief Civil Engineer to lead railway civil and stations projects within our Bridges and Civils team. You will shape designs, manage multi-disciplinary teams, and collaborate with national and international groups to deliver solutions for notable UK schemes.

The role requires CRE/Engineering Manager experience, a Civil/Structural Engineering degree, and CEng/IEng with ICE or IStructE membership.

Qualifications

• A degree in Civil or Structural Engineering or a related discipline.
• Professional qualification (CEng/IEng) and ICE/IStructE membership.
• Experience as CRE or Engineering Manager for railway civil works or stations.
• Proven client engagement with Network Rail, HS2, local authorities or major contractors.

Responsibilities

• Act as CRE or Engineering Manager on railway civil projects and stations.
• Develop high-quality civil/structural designs for new builds, renewals, and maintenance.
• Lead multi-disciplinary design teams and drive collaboration across UK and international groups.
• Review design documentation, drawings, 3D BIM deliverables, and calculations.
• Engage stakeholders and manage internal and external interfaces.
• Identify opportunities and lead bids, expanding client relationships.
• Keep up-to-date with Eurocodes, DMRB, MCHW and Network Rail standards.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Team mentoring

Communication

Education

Civil/Structural Eng degree

CEng/IEng

ICE/IStructE membership

Tools

3D BIM

Job description

Job Description

Overview

Shape a faster, smarter, safer future.

You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. And when you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be. So, when it comes to your life outside of work, ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life.

As a Principal or Chief Civil Engineer in our Bridges and Civils team within our Transportation business, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of transportation. We work on a diverse range of significant and challenging projects across the UK and Ireland, including Midlands Rail Hub, East West Rail, Lower Thames Crossing and a variety of National Highways and Network Rail schemes. The team also supports non-transportation civil engineering and structures projects throughout the UK and internationally such as the Water Market or Nuclear schemes such as Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactor programme. Locally in the Midlands we deliver a range of local authority projects for councils such as Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Solihull, Coventry and Birmingham. You'll take pride in creating high-quality civil and structural designs for new builds, renewals, maintenance, and assessments. You'll feel a great sense of pride in shaping high-quality civil and structural designs across new build, renewal, maintenance, and assessment works.

Your role

• Act as a Contractor's Responsible Engineer for railway civil engineering or stations projects or act as an Engineering Manager on multi-disciplinary railway schemes.
• Take pride in developing high-quality civil engineering designs for new construction, renewals, maintenance works.
• Collaborate with both national and international design teams, using your expertise and leadership to create positive, sustainable impacts on society and the environment.
• Manage the production of, and review, high quality design documentation including sketches, drawings, 3D BIM deliverables, calculations, reports and specifications.
• Able to understand a client's problem and bring the different capabilities of AtkinsRéalis together to develop a solution.
• Independently carry out technical work and provide guidance to junior staff members.
• Develop capability within the team and wider business.
• Engage with and manage internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify new opportunities and growth propositions and bring value into the business by seeing these through to new work for themselves and others.
• Lead bids and tenders, winning work and developing Client relationships.
• Keep abreast of state-of-the-art methods and developments in area of specialisation.

About you

• A degree in Civil or Structural Engineering or a related discipline.
• A professional qualification (CEng/IEng) and membership of the ICE or IStructE.
• Experience of acting as a CRE or Engineering Manager for railway civil engineering works or stations projects.
• Experience working with key clients such as Network Rail, HS2, local authorities or major Contractors and Developers.
• Good understanding of relevant design standards (e.g. Eurocodes, DMRB, MCHW and Network Rail standards).
• Practical knowledge of railway civil engeineering or station design.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to converse with a wide range of clients, stakeholders and colleagues across a number of engineering disciplines.
• Good project management skills, commercial awareness, financial control and ability to deliver across a range of contract types. This will include an ability to manage stakeholders, e.g. specialist suppliers, independent checkers and local authorities.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis , a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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