Principal Mechanical Engineer (Platform Systems)

3 vacancies

Up to £56.74 per hour Umbrella

Hybrid working - mix of home and site working.

6 month rolling contract.

The Principal Engineer– Mechanical Engineering (Platform Systems) shall provide engineering support to the local Team Lead and Engineering Manager to enable progression of Platform systems to the next design gateway review.

The Principal Engineer shall be responsible for the creation and review of pieces of analysis and engineering deliverables associated with their systems.

The Principal Engineer shall be responsible for developing and maintaining the local project plan and schedule project activities, while managing the resolution of any related project or engineering issues.

Core Duties:

Typical duties include (but are not limited to): (suggested 5-10 bullets/statements, indicative of the role at this level)

§ Develop design solutions to agreed time, cost and quality in accordance with project or business milestones.

§ Develop and manage requirements and acceptance criteria specific to a system or product and/or across a system of systems, platform or programme

§ Understand the contractual and performance requirements for various systems, and support the definition and associated acceptance criteria and events through design, build, integration, installation and commissioning activities.

§ Produce documentation required to support the design review process, including: diagrams technical specifications supporting calculations design evidence and justifications

§ Ensure design proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management tools and has been endorsed by the appropriate level of authority

§ Ensure compliance against contractual requirements and that work is undertaken in accordance with company, safety, environmental, contractual and local business processes, standards, procedures and documentation.

§ Undertake design reviews and presentations to customers.

§ Provide technical support to integrated performance and acceptance activities, including acceptance of equipment from suppliers through to system acceptance by the customer

§ Review relevant supplier documentation and ensure it is captured and recorded appropriately.

§ Support the development of estimates for the scope of work and resources required to deliver it in order to support bids, proposal development and project planning activities for various systems. § Provide support to the Certificate of Design activities appropriate to the discipline and articulate and present complex technical argument clearly, logically and simply. § Deliver technical input and engineering solutions in support of build activities, defect resolution and change management