Senior Engineer (Design / Project Planning)

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our client who specialise in the design, manufacture and installation of Product Handling Equipment within a variety of engineering industries. Our client is looking for a Senior Engineer with a mix of experience in design / project engineering, mechanical and structural design, design verification and validation, team leading, mentoring and training as well as supporting upstream and downstream functions and departments.

The Client

• Our client is an engineering company specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of product handling systems.
• Full turnkey solutions - Offering Electrical and Controls engineering undertaken from another site, Mechanical and Hydraulic engineering is taken care of at the Telford office. The full turnkey solution is then built and tested in Telford before being shipped and installed at site.
• Our client supports its customer worldwide in many industry sectors, both onshore and offshore. Industries supported by our client include Oil and Gas, Renewables, Oceanographic Survey and Defence.

About the Role

• This is a hybrid role for an experienced engineer encompassing aspects of project engineering, mechanical and structural design, design verification and validation, team leading, mentoring and training as well as supporting upstream and downstream functions and departments.
• Our clients projects are executed by delivery teams, typically comprising a technical representative and a Project Manager. As the technical representative of the delivery teams, the senior engineer will be expected to support in the production of engineering schedules and resource planning on behalf of both mechanical and controls engineering, where the engineering plan ties in with the wider project plan. responsible for delivering projects on-time and to-budget to customers.
• The design expectation of this role is focused on high-level equipment integration with the wider system, ensuring the intended purpose is achieved and correctly represented in top level 3D models and layout drawings. Additionally, the more complex design tasks of bespoke and special purpose machinery shall be undertaken by the Senior Engineer.
• Design verification typically entails relevant design calculations and analysis will shall be undertaken by the Senior Engineer completed under supervision by the Senior Engineer. The design is typically validated by in-house factory acceptance testing. Our client has a dedicated test engineer who is supported by the Senior Engineer to ensure all aspects of testing are relevant and appropriate to validate the design.
• As a team leader, the Senior Engineer is responsible for delegating tasks to the Design Engineers, mentoring less experienced members of the team and supporting the Principal Engineer to provide in-house training.
• Business development is supported by the engineering department, where the Senior Engineer contributes to new product development, hours and cost estimation, and technical input to new business opportunities.
• Purchasing, Production and Quality Assurance rely on engineering support to ensure materials and components are supplied and produced to the required quality levels. This support is provided under the supervision of the Senior Engineer.
• The role is customer facing, attending customer project and design reviews and site visits in the UK and worldwide.
• Coordination with third party design approval agencies, compilation of design packages for third party design approval and compiling technical files for life time quality records.

Responsibilities

• Scheduling and resource planning
• Layout drawings and 3D models
• Complex and bespoke design engineering
• Design calculations and analysis
• Test specifications
• Customer project review meetings
• Internal project review meetings
• Coordinating and allocating work between mechanical and controls engineering
• Chairing design review meetings

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum HNC in mechanical engineering and completion of technical apprenticeship scheme or Degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
• Microsoft Office applications
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Autodesk Inventor

Experience

• 10 years in a similar role
• Offshore design with knowledge of DNV, LR, ABS, BV design codes
• Relevant industry sectors including lifting, cranes, industrial and structural engineering
• Euro Codes
• Machinery Directive and/or Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations

This vacancy is available to Candidates with relevant experience as detailed in the job description. Due to the volume of applications, we are unable to respond to applicants who do not possess the required skills and experience. Candidates must be authorised to work in the country where this role is located BEFORE making an application.