Principal Mechanical Engineer

Job Description
To provide engineering conceptual and detailed design, drawings, modelling, calculations, and technical solutions in the delivery of customer funded tasks and/or projects. Will likely be the Engineering Manager or Lead Discipline Engineer on tasks or projects and hence will manage teams to deliver engineering and technical solutions.

Responsibilities
* Ensuring that procedures, codes and standards are correctly identified and applied to engineering and technical activities
* Producing, checking, and approving calculations, analyses, drawings, models, design basis documentation and technical reports
* Producing, checking, and approving technical Scopes of Work, assessing tender returns, then checking/assessing and/or approving the outputs to ensure that the requirements of the design sub-contract are met
* Producing, checking, and approving technical specifications, assessing tender returns and providing technical support to those packages throughout the design, construction, installation, commissioning, operation and decommissioning phases of the project to ensure that the Design Intent is maintained
* Ensuring that design consultants and sub-contractors deploy suitably qualified and experienced personnel
* Ensuring that conventional HSÈprotection requirements are embodied in the designs
* Assessing and approving design changes
* Assessing and approving concessions and technical queries
* Establishing, leading and maintaining the engineering configuration, ensuring that the overall Design Intent and integrity is maintained throughout design development and subsequent changes
* Feeding back lessons learnt for use on other projects
* Preparing quality plans for single and multi discipline work packages
* Presenting designs for hazard identification and HAZOP studies
* Leading and preparing discipline answers and estimates for bids
* Supervising senior engineers/technical specialists within same or multi discipline teams
* Ensuring that adequate Checking & Approval is undertaken on all their deliverables and for those under their direct control and supervision
* Leading and providing peer assistance of bids, tasks, designs or projects
* Representing the discipline to customers, regulatory and external bodies
* Independent assessment of the technical basis of claims and disputes
* Reviewing industry best practice for implementation

Qualifications & Requirements
* Engineering or Science degree
* Chartered or Incorporated Engineer or Scientist. Note that some science institutes may work to different "professional accreditation" models
* Corporate member of one or more relevant professional institutions. Fellow preferred.
* Substantial demonstrable experience post degree qualification covering a range of engineering and/or technical topics including design, analysis, specification, safety case support, installation, commissioning, and supervision of staff/contractors. This would ideally be covering a variety of tasks or projects across a range of complexities
* Nuclear industry or other safety or regulated industry preferred
* Mechanical handling knowledge and experience

Security
Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

For more information please contact Edwin Bowers on 01489 898 851 or email your CV

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK
Matchtech is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.