Principal Civil Engineer - Renewables & Transmission & Distribution

AECOM; Bagstone; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Hybrid work

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an experienced Principal Civil Engineer to support our expanding energy team across Renewables, Transmission and Distribution projects in the UK and Ireland.

You’ll contribute from feasibility through to construction supervision, leading civil infrastructure design for wind, solar, hydro, grids and BESS, coordinating with clients and internal teams, with opportunities for career progression in a flexible hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (BEng Hons) required.
• Chartered status or working towards chartership with ICE or equivalent.
• Experience delivering complex multi-disciplinary energy projects.
• Experience on UK Transmission & Distribution projects (11kV–400kV).
• Strong technical design skills in civil/structural elements.
• Solid report writing and organisational abilities.
• Familiarity with NGTS or CDAE status is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead verifier on feasibility studies and design reports.
• Liaise with clients and manage day-to-day project work within timelines and budgets.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Lead design of civil infrastructure including roads, drainage, and external works.
• Prepare and review calculations, drawings and specifications per UK standards.
• Conduct site inspections and address technical queries.
• Produce high-quality reports and documentation.
• Mentor and guide junior staff.

Skills

BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering

Chartered status / in progress

Energy Transition experience

UK Transmission & Distribution

Technical design

Report writing

Organisational skills

Education

BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Principal Civil Engineer to support the continued expansion of energy team and help shape the future of sustainable infrastructure. Successful candidates will be deployed to support projects across both our Renewables & Transmission and Distribution teams.

This position can be based in our growing offices in Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, London - Aldgate Tower, Perth, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Belfast and Dublin and whilst benefiting from our flexible hybrid working model.

You should be passionate about engineering excellence and want to work on cutting‑edge energy projects across the UK, Ireland, Europe and further afield.

What can we offer?

As a Principal Civil Engineer, you’ll play a key technical role across a diverse portfolio of energy projects, including:

• Onshore wind
• Solar PV
• Hydroelectric (run‑off river and pumped storage)
• Grid infrastructure - Substation and Overhead Line
• Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)

You will be involved from feasibility through to detailed design and construction supervision, working with both major energy utility providers and private developers.

What You’ll Do:

As a Principal Civil Engineer, you will:

• Act as lead verifier on reports including technical feasibility studies and design reports.
• Liaise with clients, manage project work on a day‑to‑day basis and ensure that the work is delivered within the agreed timescale and budgets.
• Coordinate multi‑disciplinary design teams
• Lead and manage the design of civil infrastructure including roads, drainage, civil structural infrastructure and external works.
• Prepare and review calculations, detailed design drawings and specifications ensuring compliance with UK standards (BS EN codes, Eurocodes, CDM Regulations).
• Conduct site inspections and respond to technical queries
• Produce high‑quality reports (feasibility studies, inspection reports, design documentation)
• Mentor and guide junior staff

This role will present you with a fantastic opportunity to develop your technical and project management skills through your project work, with great prospects for career progression as the team continues to grow.

And let’s not forget about the perks at AECOM. You’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised 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 University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• BEng (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering
• Chartered status or actively working towards chartership with the Institution of Civil Engineers or other relevant Institution.
• Experience in delivering complex multi‑disciplinary projects for the Energy Transition industry is highly desirable.
• Experience within UK Transmission & Distribution projects (11KV - 400KV) is highly desirable.
• This role is a technical role, and you will be expected to demonstrate a high degree of technical competency in the design of civil or structural elements.
• In addition to engineering skills, report writing and organisational skills will be key to the role.
• Familiarity with National Grid Technical Specifications (NGTS) or National Grid CDAE status will be an added Advantage.

About AECOM

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us., At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in‑person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry‑leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.