Principal Engineer

💷 Up to £80,000 DOE | 📍 Bedfordshire

A long-established UK engineering business is strengthening its senior technical capability and is seeking a Principal Engineer to help shape product direction, technical standards and future innovation.
This role suits a technically authoritative engineer who enjoys influencing strategy, mentoring others and applying engineering judgement across complex, engineered products.

What You'll Be Responsible For

Providing senior technical leadership across product development and engineering delivery               
Acting as technical authority on design integrity and performance
Influencing technology and product strategy in line with market needs
Supporting commercial activity through technical input into bids, proposals and selections
Driving value engineering, standardisation and continuous improvement
Leading structured problem-solving and root cause analysis
Ensuring compliance with relevant industry and regulatory standards
Offering expert technical guidance to internal teams and external stakeholders
What We're Looking For

Degree-qualified Mechanical Engineer
Extensive experience (10+ years) in complex mechanical or rotating equipment design
Strong grounding in design principles, analysis and validation
Comfortable balancing technical excellence with commercial realities
Confident communicator, able to influence at senior and customer level
Desirable (Not Essential)

Regulated industry experience (e.g. utilities, infrastructure, energy)
Chartered Engineer or working towards
Experience with modern CAD/analysis tools
Exposure to condition monitoring, diagnostics or reliability engineering
Please contact Kirk at Pertemps Bristol on (phone number removed) with any questions on the role