Requisition Number: 32644
Company: W Electric Company UK Ltd
Location: Cumbria, GB
Principal Operations Process Engineer at Westinghouse Electric Company Westlakes.
About The Role
As a Principal Operations Process Engineer you will be responsible for leading the successful delivery of all Process Engineering requirements across either a single large complex project or multiple medium‑sized projects. This includes ensuring technical excellence, compliance with standards, and alignment with project objectives. You will report to the Project Manager and be located at Westlakes.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading improvements at functional and strategic levels using Lean tools to deliver sustainable business changes.
- Strategy development to drive operational excellence; X‑matrix, balanced scorecards, KPI's.
- Ensuring projects and change processes are aligned to business strategic goals.
- Using business KPIs to initiate and drive changes to increase efficiency.
- Drive efficiency improvement, policy and procedure development and strategy tightening and alignment.
- Strategic development of Programs 3–5‑year tactical plan ensuring alignment to KDM's and longer‑term business strategic aims.
- Management of short‑term tactical plan into operational delivery schedules ensuring achievability of KDM's, KPM's and KPI's.
- Forecasting business needs and instruction on works required ensuring feedstock of available work faces.
- Management of MPS's including recovery plans and reporting to all levels of the business.
- Collaborative program wide stakeholder engagement and management.
Qualifications
- At least 10+ years' experience in industry, at least 3 years at Senior Engineer level, ideally 5+ years in the nuclear industry or other highly regulated sector.
- Proven knowledge of theories, principles, practices, and techniques of process design.
- Strong knowledge in the production of Technical Files for new products / plant and equipment.
- Undertake technical tasks and disclose their technical limitations.
- Willingness to mentor more junior engineers.
- Work well with all levels of management and support staff.
- Attitude and a 'can do' approach to problem solving.
- Work effectively in a team.
- Reinforces nuclear professionalism, and in particular Health, Safety and Environment Standards.
Benefits
- Attractive remuneration
- Great benefits for your convenience and safety:
- Peer‑to‑peer recognition program.
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
- Employee Assistance Program: confidential counselling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members
- Learning and development opportunities.
- We encourage employees to participate in community service events and other team‑building activities to strengthen their bonds and inspire each other.
Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
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