Principal Engineer in Belfast

Shape a faster, smarter, safer future. You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We are proud to say it is thanks to our people’s diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. When you join us, you will be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone’s voice is valued and treated equally. We are passionate about what we do, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. This is a great place to be. Ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life.

As a Principal Engineer in our Transportation team, you will be pivotal in implementing ideas that shape the future of how we move. You will collaborate across new build, renewal, maintenance, and assessment works, from our largest, most high-profile to our more progressive and specialised. Our clients include Department for Infrastructure, National Transport Authority, Highways England and Local Authority councils across the UK and Ireland. With such size, scope and scale, you will have plenty of opportunities to keep yourself challenged.

Your role

• Providing technical guidance on highway infrastructure projects.
• Mentoring and coaching team members and taking responsibility for their technical development.
• Liaising with key clients and discussing design/technical solutions to stakeholders including technical and non-technical clients.
• Liaising with Practice Managers to ensure that projects are sufficiently resourced.
• Delegating work to team members, programming deliverables and monitoring progress.
• Identifying and responding to project commercial risks and opportunities.
• Supporting the business in work winning including representing the business at networking events, preparing bids and tenders, and establishing, maintaining and developing relationships with existing and prospective internal and external clients.

About you

• Able to demonstrate experience of developing strong and sustainable relationships with clients, understanding their requirements and aspirations, and working effectively with them to achieve their objectives.
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement.
• Highly developed interpersonal and leadership skills with proven ability to build and motivate teams working across the practices.
• A hard-working and flexible individual, who is a team player, reliable, proactive and shows initiative whilst able to keep cool under pressure and when working to often demanding deadlines.
• A disciplined thinker and analytical, numerate, problem solver who has strategic judgement and the capacity to think complex issues through and develop effective solutions in a timely fashion.
• A resourceful, articulate and clear communicator who can influence others through the use of sound judgement and good sense; a natural team player.
• Self-motivated and able to work both independently as well as within a larger multi-discipline team in leading and managing packages of work to completion.
• A high expectation of performance for themselves and other members of the team.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. Combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

About AtkinsRéalis

We are AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organisation. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We are committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Additional information

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and abilities.