Contract Engineering Lead (Civil Engineering)

Our offer

You will be joining one of the world's most ambitious and strategically significant infrastructure programmes — Sizewell C (SZC), the UK's next generation nuclear power station. As a Contract Engineering Lead, you will sit at the heart of a complex, high-impact civil detailing programme, working at the intersection of technical excellence, contract governance, and cross-functional leadership. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of clean energy infrastructure in the UK.

As a Contract Engineering Lead (Civil), you will serve as the technical authority for a civil detailing contract package within the SZC project, covering the full lifecycle of technical deliverables — from pre-contract definition through to post-award design management. You will work in a hybrid capacity, based 3 days per week at Aztec West, Bristol.

Your profile

• Leading technical authority for the civil detailing contract, overseeing all technical deliverables and ensuring full compliance with SZC standards and replication principles across the programme lifecycle
• Driving pre-contract activities, including supporting the tendering process, assessing Technical Appraisal Reports (TARs), and defining contract technical requirements such as the Book of Technical Specifications (BTS), List of Deliverables, Reviews and Controls (LDRC), and the surveillance plan
• Managing design through all gateway phases (GR0–GRD), from the transfer of HPC information through design development, modelling support and query resolution, while leading key technical reviews including CIHP, GRC and GRD
• Coordinating and leading technical review teams, overseeing major deliverable outputs (DS28, DS26, DS30, DS31) and supporting review of supplementary documents, ensuring consistency and capability across all buildings
• Acting as the primary technical interface between the SZC Project Manager and the L3 Detailer, escalating risks, delays and non-conformances, and supporting configuration control including change management, interface tracking and traceability

Your profile

To succeed in this role, you will bring a strong blend of civil engineering expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programmes in a highly regulated environment.

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a closely related discipline is essential, along with a minimum of 10 years' experience in engineering design, detailing or technical management within large-scale infrastructure or nuclear projects
• Proven experience in contract and design management, with the ability to define technical specifications, manage design governance processes, and drive compliance across multi-party delivery teams
• Strong knowledge of nuclear standards, replication principles and configuration management, with demonstrable experience working within regulated environments and managing design risk registers in line with CDM regulations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a track record of acting as a technical interface across complex project hierarchies and effectively coordinating multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• A collaborative and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to lead technical meetings and workshops, resolve design queries, and maintain alignment across diverse teams throughout all phases of a major infrastructure programme

If 75%+ of the criteria are met, then your application still may be considered as training and up-skilling will be provided to the right candidates.

What you'll love about working here

Diversity & Inclusion

Capgemini Engineering recognises the benefit that having a diverse workforce brings to our projects. We value applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. In order to support diversity in our hiring process, your application will be anonymised when shared with hiring managers to be reviewed against the position.

Benefits

As a permanent employee of Capgemini Engineering you will have access to a range of benefits alongside your salary including an annual bonus scheme where you could share in the company’s success. You will get 25 days paid holiday outside of the bank holidays, a pension scheme with employer contributions, options for private medical cover as well as life assurance and enhanced maternity/paternity pay. For some employees you will also be eligible to take part in our impressive employee referral scheme (£3,000 per employee referred).

About Us

Capgemini Engineering combines, under one brand, a unique set of strengths from across the Capgemini Group: the world leading engineering and R&D services of Altran – acquired by Capgemini in 2020 - and Capgemini's digital manufacturing expertise. With broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software, Capgemini Engineering supports the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Combined with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, it helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Industry. Capgemini Engineering has more than 52,000 engineer and scientist team members in over 30 countries across sectors including aeronautics, automotive, railways, communications, energy, life sciences, semiconductors, software & internet, space & defence, and consumer products.

Capgemini Engineering is an integral part of the Capgemini Group, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 270,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. With its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2020 global revenues of €16 billion.