Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Location:
Dunfermline, GB
Employment type: Employee Place of work: Office Offshore/Onshore: Onshore
TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as equal opportunities, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 21,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.
Job Purpose
We are currently looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Surface team in Dunfermline. You will provide technically complex engineering solutions in particularly challenging project environments in accordance with TechnipFMC standards, procedures and processes, schedules and budget, with a continuous concern for quality, targets, and customer satisfaction.
Job Description
1. Generate and lead conceptual designs or customise existing designs for proposals or projects from customer or internally generated specifications and prepare design layouts. Verify designs where necessary using classical analysis techniques (bending, buckling, shear, bearing, and pressure vessel)
2. Present designs to engineering staff during internal design review; prepare part report's and review detailed drawings. Selecting raw materials, coatings, and quality requirements as necessary
3. Generate equipment assembly, test, FAT, qualification, handling, storage, rework, maintenance and commissioning procedures as required
You are meant for this job if:
4. You have experience of specifying and designing engineered products
5. You have experience in performing classical calculations and/or using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to drive design decisions (if applicable for role)
6. You have an eagerness to coach our more junior members of the engineering department
7. Preferably you’ll have worked with engineering product databases/systems such as ERP systems
8. You’ll understand how to deliver design solutions and tasks in a project based environment (risk factors, priorities, scheduling)
Skills
Essential
9. Relevant Engineering Degree
10. Skilled in Engineering Drawing, Dimensioning, & Tolerancing
11. Skilled in creating engineering documentation and Bill of Materials
12. Knowledgeable in Materials Science
Desirable
13. Knowledgeable in 3D Modeling and Drafting Standards (NX or Equivalent
14. Knowledgeable in Surface Wellhead and Tree technology
15. Skilled in Manufacturing Engineering
16. Skilled in relevant industry codes (API 6A, ISO 9001, etc.)
17. Skilled in TechnipFMC core applications, databases, and processes
18. Knowledgeable in MS Office
Competencies
19. Strong engineering design aptitude
20. Strong Communication skills in English, both verbally and written
21. Strong Safety and Quality fundamentals
22. Strong problem solving skills
23. Ability to work in a team-orientated and diverse cultural environment
24. Good planning and organisational skills
What we offer
25. My Annual Leave - 30 days + 5 fixed public holidays.
26. My Wealth and Protection – Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Life Assurance, Will Writing, Workplace Isa, Group Personal Pension Plan - employer contributions up to 10%.
27. My Health and Wellbeing - Private Medical Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme, Dental Insurance, Health Assessments & Personal Accident Insurance.
28. My Lifestyle - Electric Vehicle Scheme, Cyle2Work, Employee Tech Scheme, Give as You Earn, GymFlex, Holiday Trading, Personal Travel Insurance, Perks at Work.
29. My Workplace - Subsidised Canteen and Costa Coffee, Onsite Gym, Family Fun Days, Hybrid Working, Flexible Working Arrangements, Enhanced Maternity and Parental leave, Talent/Management and Leadership programmes, Various inhouse training opportunities for your personal development.
30. My Giving - Volunteering Day, Various Social and Health & Wellbeing groups.
Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes equal opportunities and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matter and we encourage you to add to our culture.
TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.
Learn more about TechnipFMC and find other open positions by visiting our Career Page.
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Date posted: May 28, 2026 Requisition number: 18116