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Lead, build, and leave your mark. From our rapidly growing central Manchester office, you’ll help to shape a new Civil & Structural Engineering team delivering complex data centre projects. You'll be involved in the recruitment and mentoring of engineers, set the standard for technical excellence, and accelerate your career—supported by a culture that values accountability, integrity and quality.
What’s in it for yo
uBuild a team: Help establish our new Manchester C&S function—recruit, lead and mentor engineers, set best practice, and shape the delivery model
.Fast‑track leadership: High visibility with the Senior Leadership and responsibility for managing a design team, giving you a clear path to broader leadership.
.Own high‑impact work: Lead civil design on mission‑critical data centre projects from concept to completion—work where reliability, scale and speed matter
.Hybrid that works: 3 days on‑site / 2 days from home—balanced for collaboration, mentoring and deep design focus
.Grow others—and yourself: You’ll monitor and support training and development for your team (and your own progression), with opportunities to represent the discipline externally.
.Technical excellence: Keep current with new tools, standards and legislation; lead on compliance across Codes, Standards, Regulations and Procedures
.Quality & values‑driven culture: We operate with Accountability, Integrity, Simplicity, Supportive, and Quality—aiming to get it right first time, every time
.Make designs safer & greener: Champion safety and sustainability as core design considerations, not afterthoughts
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What you’ll
doAct as Principal Civil engineer, coordinating with clients and multidisciplinary design teams to meet programme, budget and technical scop
e.Produce designs, drawings and specifications; compile contract documents; ensure compliance with all relevant standards and procedure
s.Maintain planning and cost control; identify and manage scope/schedule changes via formal change contro
l.Champion engineering quality, sustainability and safe
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Ready to build and le
ad?If you’re excited to recruit, grow and lead a top‑tier civil engineering team while delivering complex data centre projects, we’d love to hear from you. Apply with your CV and if you can include a short review on the most complex civil design project you’ve led—what made it challenging, and how you delivered it then that would be gre