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🥝 Principal Engineer

Tetra Tech | chorley, United-Kingdom | Posted May 31, 2026

Job Description

Are you an experienced engineer ready to take the next step into technical leadership? Tetra Tech is seeking a Principal Engineer to join our growing nuclear engineering team. This role combines hands-on technical delivery with increasing leadership responsibility, offering the opportunity to work on nationally significant nuclear projects while developing your career towards Chartered Engineer status and beyond.

Purpose & Scope of the Role

As a Principal Engineer, you will deliver high-quality engineering design and analysis across nuclear projects, supporting work from early concept through to detailed design and implementation. You will take ownership of defined technical work packages, ensuring quality, coordination and delivery within programme expectations. The role combines technical design expertise with increasing responsibility for oversight, mentoring and collaboration within multidisciplinary project teams. Working in a...

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