Senior Project Engineer

Location: Sunderland

Hours: Monday – Friday (days)

Salary: Competitive plus benefits

Type: Permanent

Imperial Recruitment Group are working with a long-established global organisation who are looking to appoint a Senior Project Engineer at their site in Sunderland.

Main Purpose: The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for the integrity and delivery of the engineering and technical elements of work, focusing on the execution of the project engineering tasks, ensuring the scope is well defined, controlled, understood, and aligned with the deliverable and safety requirements.

Duties:

• To work closely with the engineers across the business (technical, process, design and project) as well as other functional managers and subcontractors to progress deliverables and manage/support queries.
• Maintain good communication with the customer to provide regular engineering updates.
• Log, track and respond to customer queries in a timely manner.
• Interpret and clarify customer requirements and attend customer sites.
• Ensure feedback is maintained to progress deliverables, clarify scope, and assist the team in identifying technical risk and responding to queries.
• Work closely with designers and project managers to collaboratively ensure the contracted scope is delivered in a timely manner and that the project remains profitable for the business.
• Review the design output throughout the full life cycle of the project ensuring that it meets the requirements.
• To review scope, contract, engineering schedules, and client specifications upon handover of the project and execute these deliverables during the life cycle of the project.
• Ensure that the engineering budgets are clearly defined and followed.
• Highlight and manage technical risk.
• Identify engineering problems and ensure solutions are implemented in a timely manner.
• Ensure relevant safety objectives and legal requirements are met.
• Create project Health & Safety and Technical Files including any Operation and Maintenance Manual.
• Generate and maintain project specifications/data sheets such as equipment, installation scope of works, generate schedules be that: conveyors, compressed air, piping, valves etc along with generating & maintaining equipment lists.
• Prepare subcontract scope of work documents, raise purchase requisitions and manage subcontracted design.
• Create and raise purchase requisitions for major bought out components identified on the project.
• Do gap analysis on the design to ensure completeness of the engineering works.
• Ensure that the design integrity is maintained, with consideration for machine safety, manufacturing, installation, operation, and maintenance.
• Provide any engineering information required for contract variations.
• Manage any engineering non-conformance issues or change requests that arise on the project once the design has been released.
• Create and review all documentation required for CE/UKCA marking of the project.
• Log and communicate any lessons learned on a project to the project and engineering team.
• Mentor junior members of staff.

Requirements:

• Hold a HNC in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Have previous experience in a design and/or project engineering delivery environment, with the ability to plan effectively.
• Have previous experience and understanding of heavy engineering, bespoke engineered technical solutions and process plant design including equipment selection such as, but not limited to, belt and screw conveyers, elevators, screens, crushers, shredders, filtration and pneumatic conveying systems within the mineral, chemical and food processing industries.
• Be proficient using 2D software drawing packages.
• Be committed to driving continuous improvement, a culture of accountability and results focused against measurable KPIs.
• Have a working knowledge of ATEX regulations.
• Be an experienced user of Microsoft Office.

For more information about this opportunity please get in touch with Imperial Recruitment Group.