Job Description
Job Title: Senior Mechanical Servies EngineerRate: £73 per hour via Umbrella (Inside IR35)Location: DevonportContract Length: 12 MonthsRole purpose The primary purpose of this role is to lead and assure delivery of multi?disciplinary dockside design work to the required safety, quality, schedule and cost. Operating with a high level of autonomy, the postholder will own one or more work packages end?to?end, set technical direction, plan and control delivery, manage multi?disciplinary interfaces, and review/check fit?for?purpose design documentation and technical deliverables. The Senior Engineer will act as a key interface to the Design Manager and Principal Mechanical Engineer (Mechanical Services Lead), providing technical leadership, risk ownership, supplier oversight, and mentoring to engineers and designers.Key Responsibilities
* Own/manage the technical baseline and requirements for assigned packages; act as Responsible Engineer and technical focal point from need identification through handover.
* Check and review key deliverables: calculations, drawings, specifications, BoMs, method statements, T&IPs, installation details and as?built records.
* Lead design optioneering and LFE (lessons learned), ensuring solutions are buildable, maintainable and operable.
* Provide formal checking/verification and sign?off per project quality plans; act as Checker where authorised.
Planning, Control & Reporting
* Build and own the design work plan (scope, assumptions, estimates, resources), align with schedule, and track/report progress.
* Manage change control, configuration, and auditable records; maintain risk/issue/action registers.
* Provide clear status reporting to the Design Manager/Project Manager and drive recovery actions where needed.
Quality, Governance & Assurance
* Ensure compliance with the Business Management System and Technical Manuals, applicable codes/standards and site rules.
* Organise and lead package?level Design Reviews, HAZIDs, constructability and ALARP reviews; close actions as required.
* Deliver right?first?time outputs (coordinated, clash?checked, specification?compliant).
Safety, CDM & Risk
* Discharge Designer duties under CDM; lead elimination/reduction of risk through design and document residual risks.
* Own safety assumptions, interlocks and protection logic (e.g., cranes/machinery), ensuring compliance with LOLER/PUWER principles where applicable.
Qualifications / Requirements
* Demonstrate experience and knowledge in the design and implementation of Mechanical Systems/Services, preferably fluid systems such as water/pipe systems, pneumatics or hydraulics.
* Demonstrate understanding of how to substantiate complex requirements, preferably from the nuclear industry.
* Demonstrate experience of the design support to construction, operation, refit/repair of conventional and nuclear submarines and/or facilities.
* Demonstrate relevant knowledge and skills required in the technical management of complex design development throughout the design lifecycle.
* Provide expert advice to the sub-contracted design houses to enable them to develop the design.
* Demonstrate a sound understanding of engineering design and safety practice as relevant to discipline, post and project requirements.
* Demonstrate project specification, planning, project management and budgeting experience.
* Demonstrate understanding of company and departmental procedures relating to Design, Health & Safety and Quality requirements, and ability to manage projects in accordance with these procedures.
* Demonstrate a working knowledge of relevant engineering office computer applications.
* Lead on safety, support regulatory and nuclear processes (CDM Designer, ALARP) and HAZIDs.
* Maintain rigorous configuration/document control to BMS/Technical Manuals.
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