Senior Mechanical Engineer

Company Description

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Every day, our 8,000 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.

We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.

Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.

To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all

Job Description

Assystem Energy & Infrastructure are recruiting for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to work at our customers site in Warrington on a contract basis.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer is responsible for the creation of component/assembly designs and associated through life justification that meet their requirements and product attributes, ie life, cost availability and safety margins.

Role details: 

Job title: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Contract length: 12 months 
Location: Warrington
Contract type: PAYE via Umbrella solutionKey responsibilities include but are not limited to:

To understand Product system / sub-system requirements and derive Component requirements at task level.
To produce robust design solutions which are insensitive to variation to address specified requirements.
To collaborate and communicate design solution information with task stakeholders.
To search for, capture, store, and re-use knowledge relating to design activity.
To understand and apply the commodity standards and to create new standards where none exist.
To liaise with manufacturing and service engineering to actively integrate the experience and knowledge from these areas.
To check own and others design a solutions and technical for completeness and correctness.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience:

Bachelor's degree, Master's or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.
Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.
An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems.
Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and justification.
Membership of a relevant professional body or working towards.
Experience as design engineer operating across the product life cycle, undertaking design safety justification activites supporting manufacturing, integration, maintenance /refit activities and dealing with operational issues.
Experience of Research and development, analytical and test verification activities.
Experience in the development of methods, standards and processes.

Additional Information

Please be aware that many roles at Assystem are subject to both security and export control restrictions.

These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held,

and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.

All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the

UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services, request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future