Principal Engineer

April 9, 2026
Urgent

Job Description

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Principal Engineer on a 6-12 month contract, based in Glasgow

Role Summary

• Coordinate the design team across all disciplines.

• Liaise with the Project Director on engineering budgets and provide forecast cost to complete estimates and associated justification to changes in expenditure.

• Manage the programme and interface with the planning engineers for design.

• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer (Lead Engineer) for design submission, design reviews and hazard reviews.

• Coordinate with the Principal Design Engineer (Lead Engineer) forecasts for completion and resource planning.

• Support the Project Director in overall projects risk and opportunity assessments and implementation of resulting actions.

• Contribute to the creation of subcontracts/Purchase Orders and manage the subcontractors/suppliers jointly with other involved functions.

• Support the Commercial Manager in contractual and commercial aspects of project engineering (including Customer s Instruction, Early Warning Notice, Compensation Event ).

• Work with customers to shape and deliver solutions, seeking feedback and innovating with the customer to drive and deliver improvements.

Our Company

Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time!

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