Job Title: Senior Mechanical Servies Engineer
Rate: £73 per hour via Umbrella (Inside IR35)
Location: Devonport
Contract Length: 12 Months
Role purpose
The primary purpose of this role is to lead and assure delivery of multi?disciplinary dockside design work to the required safety, quality, schedule and cost. Operating with a high level of autonomy, the postholder will own one or more work packages end?to?end, set technical direction, plan and control delivery, manage multi?disciplinary interfaces, and review/check fit?for?purpose design documentation and technical deliverables. The Senior Engineer will act as a key interface to the Design Manager and Principal Mechanical Engineer (Mechanical Services Lead), providing technical leadership, risk ownership, supplier oversight, and mentoring to engineers and designers.
Key Responsibilities
Own/manage the technical baseline and requirements for assigned packages; act as Responsible Engineer and technical focal point from need identification through handover.
Check and review key deliverables: calculations, drawings, specifications, BoMs, method statements, T&IPs, installation details and as?built records.
Lead design optioneering and LFE (lessons learned), ensuring solutions are buildable, maintainable and operable.
Provide formal checking/verification and sign?off per project quality plans; act as Checker where authorised.Planning, Control & Reporting
Build and own the design work plan (scope, assumptions, estimates, resources), align with schedule, and track/report progress.
Manage change control, configuration, and auditable records; maintain risk/issue/action registers.
Provide clear status reporting to the Design Manager/Project Manager and drive recovery actions where needed.Quality, Governance & Assurance
Ensure compliance with the Business Management System and Technical Manuals, applicable codes/standards and site rules.
Organise and lead package?level Design Reviews, HAZIDs, constructability and ALARP reviews; close actions as required.
Deliver right?first?time outputs (coordinated, clash?checked, specification?compliant).Safety, CDM & Risk
Discharge Designer duties under CDM; lead elimination/reduction of risk through design and document residual risks.
Own safety assumptions, interlocks and protection logic (e.g., cranes/machinery), ensuring compliance with LOLER/PUWER principles where applicable.
Qualifications / Requirements
Demonstrate experience and knowledge in the design and implementation of Mechanical Systems/Services, preferably fluid systems such as water/pipe systems, pneumatics or hydraulics.
Demonstrate understanding of how to substantiate complex requirements, preferably from the nuclear industry.
Demonstrate experience of the design support to construction, operation, refit/repair of conventional and nuclear submarines and/or facilities.
Demonstrate relevant knowledge and skills required in the technical management of complex design development throughout the design lifecycle.
Provide expert advice to the sub-contracted design houses to enable them to develop the design.
Demonstrate a sound understanding of engineering design and safety practice as relevant to discipline, post and project requirements.
Demonstrate project specification, planning, project management and budgeting experience.
Demonstrate understanding of company and departmental procedures relating to Design, Health & Safety and Quality requirements, and ability to manage projects in accordance with these procedures.
Demonstrate a working knowledge of relevant engineering office computer applications.
Lead on safety, support regulatory and nuclear processes (CDM Designer, ALARP) and HAZIDs.
Maintain rigorous configuration/document control to BMS/Technical Manuals