# Principal Engineer

Job Description Job Title: Principal Engineer Location: Middleton, London and Chelmsford We are looking to secure the services of an experienced Principal Engineer with a proven track record in substation engineering and project expertise relating to turnkey HV GIS/AIS substations. In this role, you will be embedded into the project team and work in close coordination with the Linxon execution team and Linxon engineering. What will you do? Key Areas of Responsibility (KARs): 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

- **Id**: 2903665
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/linxon-principal-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Middleton, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:38:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 78
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3743
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 3812563
- **Name**: Linxon
- **Domain**: linxon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/linxon>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 45
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.178
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 105
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 69000
- **Max usd**: 115000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 109

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 78

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T07:19:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 53
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.884
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 78
- **Expected fill days**: 105
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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