Engineering Manager in Abingdon

The Engineering Manager will organise, lead, coordinate and direct a multi-discipline design engineering team (including technical, safety case and supply chain as applicable) that delivers engineering work packages (specification, analysis, verification or assessment of engineering). Orano is currently employed in a number of fast-paced and exciting projects for the design of nuclear gloveboxes for analysis and R&D work, including handling of SNM and MoX material. This work is for a number of different clients in the UK and the candidate will be deployed onto one of these. Experience in nuclear glovebox design, commissioning or operations would be a benefit. Experience in SNM or MoX plants would also be a benefit. The candidate must be comfortable working on UK defence projects.

Location: Warrington or Abingdon (hybrid)

Accountabilities:

• Ensuring work portfolio is delivered and controlled efficiently and effectively to meet agreed specification, cost and schedule.
• Ensuring design solutions are fit for purpose, integrated, affordable and deliver the business case, functional specification and project execution plan.
• Ensuring all technical, safety and engineering risks are identified, owned and managed.
• Ensuring status and performance of work is accurately and timely reported.
• Ensuring appropriate and adequate design standards and practices are deployed and deliverables and solutions generated are safe, legal and adequately underpinned.
• Ensuring competent people are deployed and periodic forecasting of resources are accurate and timely.
• Ensuring design resource strategy is implemented within portfolio.
• Ensuring design key roles are filled with SQEPped and competent people and the duties of the CDM coordinator adequately discharged.
• Ensuring subject matter experts are appropriately and adequately engaged in a timely manner and LFE is captured, disseminated and utilised.

Authorities:

• To work within financial delegations.
• To assign approval of technical content of design deliverables to competent persons or groups.
• To make recommendations on make / buy decisions and selection / appointment and agreement of supply chain organisation.
• To approve the engineering strategy, cost estimate and schedule for specific areas of responsibility.
• Prioritisation and allocation of work assignments for team and production of design deliverables.

Qualifications:

• Preferred – MEng (Hons) Professional Membership Chartered Engineer (CEng) of Fellow (FEng)
• NOTE: Equivalent experience can be offered in lieu of chartership if it is deemed appropriate by the Head of Engineering

Experience:

• 7 years within the previous 10 years working in roles where knowledge of engineering was a key attribute.
• In addition, the last 5 years will have been working within a regulated and quality assured system (preferably nuclear) in roles where professional engineering judgement is the key attribute.
• Preferred requirement - 8 years within the last 10 years in engineering design.
• Experience of chairing governance reviews, design reviews and any other gate reviews to accept designs, strategies and provide technical governance.

Additional:

• The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the UK, and be willing to undergo a security vetting process.
• Offers of employment will be subject to relevant security clearance being granted.
• Close working relationships with other Orano sites and client sites may be required, which necessitates regular travel to those sites (dependent upon project & client requirements).

Advantages:

• Private Medical Insurance at Single, Partner and Family levels
• Non Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing by 1 day per year of service up to a cap of 30
• Group Life Assurance of 4 times annual salary and Group Income Protection scheme for long term sickness
• Enhanced Maternity Pay