Permanent

Principal / Senior Civil Engineer

T.E.D. (Recruitment) Ltd

Leeds, LS2 8BE

£ Negotiable, Pension, professional fees etc.

Posted: 26 July 2026 (2 days ago)

Closing date: 24 August 2026

Ref: TMP1316

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About the Role

The Principal / Senior Civil Engineer based in Leeds will lead structural design across diverse building projects, including schools, offices, residential, industrial, hospitals, and waste handling or recycling plants. In this permanent position, you will ensure all designs comply with UK regulations and industry standards, oversee technical drawings, calculations, and specifications, and collaborate with multi-discipline teams. The role offers a negotiable salary with pension and professional fees, suited to a professional with strong structural engineering skills. You will work on varied schemes, including some decarbonisation projects, with good prospects for progression within a growing consultancy.

THE ROLE

We are currently seeking a PRINCIPAL / SENIOR CIVIL ENGINEER to join our client based in Leeds.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing firm of consulting engineers who offer the right candidates interesting projects to work on and good prospects for promotion.

You will be able to work on an interesting range of projects which will include buildings for schools, offices, residential, industrial, hospitals, waste handling and recycling plants and some decarbonisation projects.

You will be responsible for doing structural engineering design and ensuring compliance with industry standards and current UK regulations.

You will oversee the production of technical drawings, calculations and specifications and you will collaborate with multi-discipline teams to develop integrated design solutions.

You will also need experience to mentor less experienced engineers.

You must be able to build good client relationships.

THE CLIENT

Our client is a successful, growing firm of consulting engineers with a number of UK offices.

THE CANDIDATE

You will need to have experience of the following:-

You must have a BSc in Civil Engineering and ideally have an MSc in Civil Engineering too.

You should have around ten years experience in civil andamp; structural engineering and have good experience of designing and delivering complex projects of various types.

You are likely to either be working towards becoming chartered or have already achieved chartered status e.g. CEng, MICE, MIStructE etc.

You need to have around seven years of more relevant experience, some of which must have been spent working for a similar engineering consultants in the U.K.

You should have good experience of using various industry software to do structural analysis and design.

You must have worked in the UK for another firm of consulting engineers and have excellent knowledge and experience of using UK codes and regulations.

A full UK driving licence is required along with your own vehicle to enable you to attend meetings and get to sites, some of which may be fairly remote.

Salary is negotiable and there is an excellent package of company benefits.

Please email a full c.v. or give me, Toby Melling a call for an informal and confidential discussion on 020 7613 5555 or 020 8368 0025 or mobile 07740 067025.

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