Principal Engineer

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Stone Cross; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Murphy is recruiting a Principal Civil/Structural Temporary Works Design Engineer to lead the Applied Engineering team across UK water projects. The role focuses on delivering buildable, efficient solutions for AMP8 frameworks with utilities like United Utilities and Thames Water, integrating design and site work from our Warrington/Cannock/Kentish Town offices.

You will manage design deliverables, mentor staff, and collaborate with project teams to ensure high‑quality permanent and temporary

Qualifications

• HND/Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Designer with the ability to manage projects from the design and cost perspectives.
• Experience of effective financial management and control of projects.
• Strong analysis and design skills with the ability to interpret design requirements and analyse complex structures.
• Chartered with ICE and/or IStructE preferred.

Responsibilities

• Be the Applied Engineering team's single point of contact to multiple projects with management responsibility for project deliverables and costs.
• Report to the Senior Engineering Manager.
• Represent the Applied Engineering team in collaborative project team meetings; carrying out civil/structural designs and acting as checker on other designs.
• Undertake site visits when appropriate.
• Collate feedback on solutions and contribute to lessons learned meetings.
• Prepare integrated permanent works proposals/solutions to meet bid and project delivery stage requirements.
• Manage the design work of other staff members and external designers.
• Mentor staff at all levels within Applied Engineering.
• Collaborate with other Principal Engineers in department growth.

Skills

Project management

Financial management

Analytical design

Problem solving

Education

HND/Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering

Job description

Location: Stone Cross Office (2021000079), WA3 3JD

Murphy is recruiting for a Principal Engineerto work with ourApplied Engineering Teaminour Warrington office.

Join Murphy as a Principal Civil/Structural Temporary Works Design Engineer taking a leading role in delivering critical water infrastructure across the UK.

Working on AMP8 frameworks with clients like United Utilities, Severn Trent Water, and Thames Water, you’ll be at the heart of our self-delivery model, integrating both design and construction to deliver efficient, buildable, and sustainable solutions.

From shafts and buried chambers to foundations, tanks, drainage, and roads, you’ll design the civil and structural elements of water and wastewater treatment works that directly improve river quality and environmental outcomes. Based from one of our offices in Warrington, Cannock, or Kentish Town, you’ll collaborate closely with project and site teams to develop practical solutions that make a real impact

- above and below ground.

Under the banner of Applied Engineering, our in-house teams include civil, structural, mechanical, geotechnical and process engineers. They design both permanent and temporary works for projects in all our locations and are a trusted source of expert advice for both Murphy colleagues and external customers.

A day in the life a Principal Design Engineer:

A day in the life a Principal Design Engineer:

• Be Applied Engineering's single point of contact to multiple projects with management responsibility for project deliverables and costs.
• Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager.
• Representing the Applied Engineering team in collaborative project team meetings.Carrying out civil/ structural designs and acting as checker on other designs.
• Undertaking site visits when appropriate.
• Collating feedback on solutions and contributing to lessons learned meetings.
• Preparing appropriate fully integrated permanent works proposals/solutions to meet the company’s bid and project delivery stage requirements.
• Managing the design work of other staff members and external designers.
• Mentoring of all levels of staff including graduates within Applied Engineering.
• Work collaboratively with other Principal Engineers in the development and growth of the department.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• HND/Bachelor/ Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering
• A designer with the ability to manage projects from the design and cost perspectives.
• Experience of effective financial management and control of projects.
• Strong analysis and design skills with the ability to interpret design requirements and analyse complex structures.
• A person with an open-minded approach to solving civil and structural engineering challenges to find the best solution from all perspectives of a project.
• Preferably Chartered with ICE and/ or IStructE.