Principal Structural Engineer

ICE Recruit; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM in Nottingham is seeking a Principal Structural Engineer to lead mid–large building projects from concept to handover. You will drive design quality, schedule and budget, and mentor engineers and technicians within a multidisciplinary team.

The role requires chartered status, strong client engagement, and a track record across sectors such as Defence, Healthcare and Education. You will apply Eurocodes, Building Regs and contemporary computational methods to deliver sustainable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience as a project leader in structural engineering.
• Chartered Engineer with direct client engagement.
• Knowledge of Eurocodes, Building Regs and related standards.
• Experience across Defence, Justice, Education, Healthcare, etc.
• UK security clearance or ability to obtain SC clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead mid-large projects from concept to handover.
• Prepare fee proposals with resources and programme.
• Lead a team of engineers and technicians.
• Perform structural analyses and calculations.
• Ensure quality, environmental and sustainability aspects.
• Manage budget and schedule.
• Value engineering and modern computational methods.

Skills

Leadership

Client engagement

Communication

Project management

Structural engineering

Sustainability

Eurocodes

Building Regs

Team collaboration

Fee proposals

Education

Graduate in Structural Engineering

Chartered Engineer

Justice/Defence experience beneficial

Job description

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Principal Structural Engineer to join our expanding Building Structures team in Nottingham.

Our Nottingham team works closely with our other multidisciplinary teams with over 600 staff covering Building (MEP, Civil, and Structural) Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Transportation, Water, Energy, and environmental consultancy. Our Structural Engineering sector coverage is broad, including Defence, Justice, Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, and Client Advisory.

What you’ll do!

The Principal Structural Engineer will lead manage and control, mid-large projects from concept to handover. The successful candidate will have proven design experience and deliver on quality, time, and budget. This role will suit a Chartered Structural Engineer who is enthusiastic, self‑motivated, and looking to advance their career.

Responsibilities:

• Effectively control commercial, managerial and technical aspects of projects or parts thereof for which you are responsible.

• Sourcing opportunities and preparing fee proposals for submission to the Client, including resources and programme.

• Leading a team of engineers and technicians designing building infrastructure schemes.

• Undertaking structural engineering projects, performing analyses and calculations as appropriate.

• Supervising work, ensuring that it is carried out to the appropriate technical standard and that it is managed to programme and budget

• Leading by example, work winning, value engineering, knowledge of modern computational methods and technology along with operation control skills.

• Provide high level value engineering led technical expertise when applying structural engineering principles, techniques and methods to the planning and design of building design projects.

• Ensure all quality, environmental and sustainability aspects of the project are identified, assessed and addressed to maintain effective operation and project delivery.

Come grow with us:

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, customized to fit your lifestyle.

• Career development opportunities
• Flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle
• Technical practice networks
• AECOM University
• Volunteering days

You will be exposed to and grow from the diverse range of projects and multi-disciplinary approach that AECOM can offer and will have opportunity to work across a larger AECOM team, often with national and international projects.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Requirements:

• To have a passion and have a drive for helping Clients solve their engineering challenges, with experience in dealing directly with Clients.

• Be a team player, ready to engage across disciplines and work together.

• A highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills.

• Extensive experience in Structural Engineering as a project leader, including developing detailed design drawings and calculations, specification writing, and compiling technical reports.

• A proven track record in Structural Engineering, having worked across a number of sectors, for example, Defence, Justice, Education, Commercial, Healthcare, etc

• Experience of seeing conceptual designs through to completion and dealing directly with Clients.

• A track record of having delivered sustainable designs.

• Must have knowledge of governing structural design standards Eurocodes, BS, Building Regs etc.

• Commercial experience

Due to the nature of the work undertaken successful applicants will need to have active UK SC Clearance or the ability to gain UK SC clearance, and ideally have single UK nationality

Qualifications

• A graduate in Structural Engineering or equivalent with experience of Structural Engineering in directly relevant fields.

• Must be a Chartered Engineer

• Any Justice sector or equivalent experience would be beneficial but not essential

Additional Information

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.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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 [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.