At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and delivery of mechanical systems for critical defence projects.
- Company: Join a top UK defence and engineering organisation with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Full-time role with excellent career growth and mentoring opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while advancing your engineering career.
- Qualifications: Degree in Mechanical Engineering and significant engineering experience required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
As a Senior Mechanical Services Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering complex multidisciplinary engineering solutions that support critical defence infrastructure and national security programmes.
Working within a highly skilled engineering team, you'll lead the design, development and delivery of mechanical systems and services across major projects, providing technical leadership from concept through to construction and handover.
Day-to-day, you'll have a unique opportunity to influence high-profile engineering programmes, collaborate with specialists across multiple disciplines, and develop your career within one of the UK's leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisations.
Your work will directly contribute to the safe operation, maintenance and future readiness of strategic infrastructure while giving you the opportunity to expand your technical expertise and leadership capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Leading the delivery of mechanical services and multidisciplinary design work packages to agreed safety, quality, schedule and cost requirements.
- Managing technical requirements, reviewing calculations, drawings, specifications and engineering deliverables to ensure fit‑for‑purpose solutions.
- Driving design reviews, risk assessments, constructability activities and engineering assurance processes.
- Coordinating with engineering, construction, commissioning, operations and supply chain stakeholders to achieve successful project delivery.
- Mentoring engineers and designers while providing technical leadership and guidance across project teams.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Experience
- Designing and implementing mechanical systems and services, particularly fluid systems, water systems, piping systems, pneumatic systems or hydraulic systems.
- Substantiating and managing complex engineering requirements within regulated industries.
- Supporting the construction, operation, maintenance, repair or refit of complex engineering facilities, ideally within defence, nuclear, marine or infrastructure environments.
- Strong technical design management experience across the full engineering design lifecycle.
Qualifications
- Degree, or equivalent qualification, in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer status.
- Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution.
- Significant demonstrable engineering experience with the capability to register with the Engineering Council at Incorporated Engineer or Chartered Engineer level.
- Security Clearance.
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+.
- Employee share scheme.
- Employee shopping savings portal.
- Payment of professional fees.
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave.
- Holiday trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package, including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.
This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.
- Further details are available at United
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UK (www. gov. uk).
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