At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering design for a major nuclear project, ensuring safety and quality.
- Company: Join a leading organisation in the UK nuclear/energy sector.
- Benefits: Competitive pay rates and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with potential for career advancement in a vital industry.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on innovative building designs in the energy sector.
- Qualifications: Degree in engineering and experience in design management required.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
A leading organisation in the UK nuclear/energy sector is seeking a Contract Engineering Lead (Building Design) to join a multi-disciplinary design team supporting a major nuclear new build programme.
In this role, you'll oversee the design of a building housing an auxiliary boiler system, working across multiple engineering workstreams and contract partners to ensure safe, compliant and high-quality design delivery through to readiness for construction.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical management of contract engineering activities, acting as a key technical interface with programme project managers across civil and MEH disciplines.
- Coordinate engineering design activities across multiple contract partners working in parallel workstreams.
- Ensure deliverables meet contract technical specifications and UK safety/context requirements.
- Monitor engineering delivery strategies and implement improvements where needed.
- Manage surveillance of detailed design work in line with project governance and processes.
- Ensure robust configuration control is in place and applied with contract partners and internally.
- Lead resolution of cross-discipline (multi-programme) engineering issues, risks and open points.
- Align contract partner schedules, milestones and lists of deliverables with the overall programme schedule.
- Agree and accept the contract partner design schedule (as required).
- Coordinate design gateways, reviews and stakeholder comment resolution across deliverables.
- Coordinate constructability reviews prior to readiness review and formal transfer to construction/installation.
- Facilitate design optimisation through feedback, modifications, trends and change management.
- Support discussions on early warnings, compensation events and change requests, including input to cost/schedule impact assessment and negotiation.
- Ensure risks and trends are recorded, tracked, mitigated and closed out effectively.
Requirements / Experience
- Degree-qualified (or equivalent) in civil, structural, architectural, process or mechanical engineering (or a closely related discipline).
- Strong experience in design management and coordination on large, multi-discipline infrastructure projects.
- Solid technical knowledge of building design and construction, including relevant UK legislation (e.g. CDM 2015).
- Awareness of nuclear safety-related constraints (nuclear sector experience is beneficial but not essential).
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to delegate and drive delivery through others.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work independently, take initiative and remain proactive.
- Discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Strong IT skills and proficiency with engineering software packages.
- English language proficiency.
Desirable
- Engineering experience with boilers, steam generation facilities, or thermal process systems.
- Chartership (or working towards).
- French language skills.
- Experience within the nuclear industry.
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