Are you an experienced structural engineer ready to lead technically demanding projects from concept to construction? As a Principal Structural Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in defining structural strategy, driving quality, and ensuring delivery excellence across complex, fast-paced developments.
What’s in it for you
Authority & Technical Assurance – You’ll act as a senior technical authority, leading structural design and ensuring robust, efficient solutions that balance performance, constructability and programme demands.
Complex Project Exposure – Working on large-scale data centres and critical infrastructure projects, you’ll tackle challenging structural systems, foundation solutions and steel and concrete designs in high-profile environments.
Client & Stakeholder Engagement – You’ll work directly with clients, architects and multidisciplinary teams, influencing decision-making and becoming a trusted advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
Developing People & Standards – Through mentoring and technical reviews, you’ll raise standards across the team while contributing to the evolution of best practice, processes and design consistency.
Career Progression with Purpose – This role offers visibility, responsibility and influence, ideal for those looking to advance into wider technical leadership or strategic roles within a growing global consultancy.
Essential Skills / Experience
In addition, you will be joining a community that focuses on learning and development through regular lunch and learn sessions, investment in accredited professional courses or educational programmes. you can set the pace for your professional development, and whatever path you choose, you will receive relevant support.
Company Overview
Black & White Engineering is a multi-award-winning engineering consultancy with offices across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
We are a leading provider of engineering design services for the data centre sector, delivering expertise across Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP), Civil and Structural, Power Systems, Sustainability, BIM, Design Management and wider specialist infrastructure disciplines.
Our teams support projects across all areas of the construction industry, offering practical, efficient design solutions that prioritise real-world installation, maintenance and operational performance.
As one of the fastest-growing consultancies in our industry, we offer genuine opportunities for progression—many of our engineers have developed into leadership roles as the business has expanded. Joining Black & White means making a meaningful impact with clients and colleagues, while receiving the recognition you deserve.
Principal Structural Engineer • Manchester, Lancashire, UK
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