Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Access to our company pension scheme

Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers

Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to

24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household

One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community

Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential

Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, owning mechanical design elements including P&IDs for energy centres, sizing boilers, pumps, and components while coordinating electrical/control, process, and civil integration.

Act as Technical Lead for Business Development opportunities from pre-qualification through concept design, internal approval, proposal submission, and construction handover.

Lead client presentations showcasing capabilities and solutions, addressing specific design challenges throughout the development process.

Prepare tender packages for outline designs, collaborating with construction teams on programmes, resourcing, procurement strategies, and risk identification/mitigation.

Support Go/NoGo process by rapidly assessing technical and commercial viability, making formal recommendations as required.

Develop energy generation, efficiency, and distribution solutions with clients to deliver resilience, carbon reduction, and cost savings across project lifecycles.

Build supplier relationships to develop technical solutions, prepare quotations, and challenge scope, costs, timelines, and safety records.

Identify and manage development project risks, working with Supply Chain and Legal to ensure back-to-back risk transfer with partners.

Drive innovation to create differentiators in offerings while ensuring technical and commercial due diligence on new technologies.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

Educated to degree level within Mechanical Engineering

Experience designing energy systems

Experience working within the energy industry

Strong organisational and time management skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of fostering teamwork and engaging constructively with clients

Familiarity with large-scale thermal generating plants such as large shell & tube boilers and CHP engines is essential.

Experience with Heat Pump systems and renewables.

AutoCAD experience

UK Driving Licence

What’s next?

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