Senior Project Engineer
The opportunity
As a Senior Project Engineer at Linesight, you will take a leading technical role across complex, large scale projects, working with highly experienced and culturally diverse teams to drive engineering excellence from concept through to operational readiness. You will act as a key technical authority, ensuring that engineering intent, programme, cost, quality, and risk are fully aligned to client expectations.
In this role you will provide strategic oversight, mentor junior engineers, and play a pivotal part in stakeholder management, decision-making, and successful project delivery. We empower our people to take ownership, lead with confidence, and build trusted, long-term relationships with both clients and delivery partners.
In this role you will:
Lead the planning, management, monitoring, and control of all engineering deliverables from project initiation through to commissioning and handover
Provide technical leadership across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring design coordination, constructability, and programme alignment
Chair and lead key design reviews and technical workshops, proactively resolving complex engineering challenges and mitigating risk
Influence and guide design decisions to balance engineering integrity, cost efficiency, sustainability objectives, and programme delivery
Oversee and hold the General Contractor accountable for engineering scope planning, sequencing, and site execution
Review and validate technical submittals, change controls, RFIs, and value engineering proposals
Conduct regular site inspections and leadership walks with DCD, DCE, A/E teams, GC/Trades, and QA/QC, ensuring compliance with design intent, quality standards, and safety expectations
Escalate critical issues where necessary and provide strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders
Support commercial and risk management activities, including cost reviews, variation assessments, and programme impact analysis
Mentor and support Project Engineers and junior team members, fostering professional development and technical capability within the team
We would love to hear from you if you:
Have significant experience in technical project management within large-scale construction or data centre environments
Demonstrate strong leadership capability across engineering and delivery teams
Have extensive experience in design management, documentation control, and construction coordination
Hold a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Design, or a related discipline (chartered status or working towards chartership desirable)
Possess excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels
Are commercially aware, with an understanding of risk, programme controls, and cost implications
Thrive in complex, fast-paced environments and can confidently prioritise competing demands
Build strong, trusted relationships through professionalism, integrity, and clear communication
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Project Management
Our teams of program and project managers deliver success globally through strategic planning and stringent controls. Whether you have extensive experience or are at the early stages of your career in program or project management, we offer the opportunity to work on some of the most innovative buildings and facilities with world-leading clients. Play a central role in these projects as part of our dynamic team. We recognise the value that each team member can bring to the table, and we offer a range of supports, learning pathways and structured career planning cycles to ensure that every individual has the best opportunity to excel and further develop, regardless of the stage of your career you join us at.
Life at Linesight
