Principal Engineer - Civil/Structural
| Posting date: | 27 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £52000-68000 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | Stone Cross Office (2021000079), - |
| Company: | J Murphy & Sons |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22829-43808805 |
Summary
Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy and water. Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities. Murphy employs around 4,000 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit www.murphygroup.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy
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.
- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit www.murphygroup.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X: #MoretoMurphy
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.