Principal Mechanical Engineer

Job Introduction

Job Description for Principal Mechanical Engineer:

NNL is where your solutions solve real-world problems. As part of our Engineering team, you’ll not only be able to get involved with a huge variety of projects, you’ll also have lots of opportunity to drive them through from start to finish — allowing you to see the impact your work has in a real-world environment. This is your chance to use your experience, expertise and ingenuity to collaborate with leading scientists. You’ll be part of a team that delivers work to benefit society by advancing cleaner energy, protecting the environment and keeping everyone safe.

To lead a team of multi-discipline engineers (including sub-contractors) in the definition, implementation and delivery of specified work that achieves safety, functional and business requirements. To personally undertake some of the more complex design tasks as required and provide specialist engineering advice in the Mechanical engineering discipline.

The location for this role is flexible and can be based at Sellafield or Workington with hybrid working (split between office and home working).

Primary focus will be to support resolution of emerging plant issues that require Engineering Design input at NNL’s Central Laboratory. This may involve a wide range of stakeholders and issues, from design substantiation, safety case modifications, plant breakdowns / failures, commissioning support etc.

The Principal Engineer role will be responsible for managing a small team of Design Engineers (Mechanical, CE&I, Process) to manage the resolution of these emerging issues from a design perspective.

Role Responsibility

Main Responsibilities for Principal Mechanical Engineer:

• To the Engineering Manager for:
  • Ensuring control, delivery and reporting of the specified work scope to agreed project function, cost and schedule.
  • Ensuring that design solutions are fit for purpose, integrated & optimised, affordable and meet functional specification and execution plan.
  • Ensuring functional technical, safety and engineering risks are identified.
• To the Discipline Lead Engineer for:
  • Ensuring appropriate and adequate design standards and practices are deployed and deliverables and solutions generated are safe, legal and adequately underpinned.
  • Ensuring competent, SQEP people are deployed in functional work and periodic forecasting of resources are accurate and timely.
  • Ensuring that appropriate design review activities are performed in a timely manner.
  • Ensuring subject matter experts are appropriately and adequately engaged in a timely manner and LFE captured, disseminated and utilised.
• To Head of Engineering for:
  • Ensuring solutions meet agreed performance demands and documents define and preserve the design intent and are organised and align with the plant configuration.
  • Ensuring all necessary documentation is generated to meet safety and legal requirements that enable receipt on nuclear licensed site, installation, commissioning and taking into service of plant and equipment.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Criteria for Principal Mechanical Engineer:

• Qualifications:
  • Minimum – HNC.
  • Preferred – MEng (Hons).
• Professional Membership:
  • Minimum – Incorporated Engineer.
  • Preferred – Chartered Engineer and Fellow.
    • NOTE: For both levels of registration, equivalent experience can be offered in lieu if it is deemed appropriate by the Discipline Lead Engineer.
• Experience:
  • Extensive experience in engineering design. In addition, will have extensive recent experience working in regulated and quality assured systems in roles where engineering judgement is a key attribute.
• Ability to obtain DV level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial, criminal record checks, interview plus 10 years of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Principal Mechanical Engineer:

• Nuclear experience with background in alpha containment design and incell nuclear operations.

About the Company

We are harnessing nuclear science to benefit society Our four key focus areas are; clean energy, nuclear medicine, environmental restoration and security and non-proliferation Working from seven unique facilities across the UK, our 1,400 colleagues combine their expertise to push the boundaries of science – improving the future for our planet and everyone on it.

Join us and discover a career where anything is possible.

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

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