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Senior Civil Structural Engineer

📍 Location
Devonport
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 18, 2026

About the Role

12 Month Contract (Inside IR35)

Up to £70 per hour umbrella

Full time on site in Plymouth

Overview of Department:

In order to deliver the MoD’s submarine and warship programmes, a significant programme of infrastructure investment is required on the Devonport site. The ‘Major Infrastructure Projects’ (MIP) Business Unit has been established to support this.

One of the key scope elements within MIP is establishing a defuel capability for out of service submarines, which is delivered under the programme banner of 14 Dock Readiness. This work comprises of a number of interrelated projects to develop various multi-disciplinary infrastructure systems, with an overall value in excess of £100m.

The Dock Readiness project is delivering the infrastructure upgrades for the existing dry dock that will be used for the submarine defuels.  The dry dock is within a nuclear licensed site.

Multiple work packages form the Dock Readiness project.  This ro...

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