Lead Design Engineer

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Warrington, United Kingdom

Job Description

Job Title: Lead Design Engineer

Job Purpose

Morson Talent are recurting for a Mechancial Design Engineer who will be responsible for leading the delivery of engineering design tasks or projects to meet agreed time, cost, and quality objectives. This includes the line management of design engineers and third-party suppliers.
You will lead the delivery of Radioactive Material (RAM) transport engineering activities and projects and provide technical advice to clients. We are looking for someone skilled in developing and maturing mechanical equipment, which would utilise feedback from this type of expertise i.e. an analyst. We need an experienced mechanical design engineer, who can use CAD tools to develop and mature designs from first principles. The requirement includes strong knowledge in use of materials, designing for manufacture, scoping hand calculations, design risk assessments and the ability to produce design and test specifications.

- Design Background (SolidWorks)
- Produce Drawing (Parts, Sub-Assembies, Fabricated Assemblies, General Arrangements etc)
- Produce Technical Reports and Specifications
- BS8888, Geometrical Tolerances
- Design for Manufacture

Principal Accountabilities:
?Define and Lead the delivery of RAM transport system engineering design activities and projects.
?Direct, author and collate transport safety cases that demonstrate full compliance with IAEA SSR-6 regulations
?Ensure all technical substantiation work supporting authored transport safety cases are of appropriate quality and internal consistency
?Working knowledge of IAEA SSR-6 regulations and ability to directly discuss and defend interpretations of specific clauses with the Competent Authority
?Support to design engineers and checking of their work.
?Monitoring and reporting of work against schedule and budget, and other KPIs as agreed.
?Work to current management processes and systems and contribute to their continued development and improvement.
?Exhibit the following guiding culture principles:
oFreedom - will create an environment where our people have the freedom to perform
oHelpfulness - will work together to help each other and our customers
oDrive - be confident, curious, and innovative

Internal and External Relationships:

?Works alone or leading a small team of professional design engineers and/or engineering analysts.
?Internal stakeholders include:
oProject Managers and Project Controls Engineers during development and delivery of projects
oOperations department to facilitate RAM transport
oCommercial department to support bids for work
oProcurement department to support asset manufacture
?External stakeholders include:
oCustomers in the NDA estate and wider nuclear industry
oCompetent authority (ONR)
oContractors delivering manufacturing works or providing services e.g. FEA, physical testing, independent inspection.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Needed (Essential/ Desirable):

The role requires an experienced professional design engineer with sufficient knowledge and experience to define and lead an engineering activity or small project
Typical qualifications, experience and skills required are:
?Relevant degree in engineering (ideally mechanical), or equivalent academic qualifications and experience.
?Recognised professional engineering qualification.
?Demonstrable experience/knowledge/understanding of engineering design and substantiation as applied to RAM transport.
?Ability to define scopes of work, including development of technical risk identification and mitigation strategies.
?Ability to work and communicate effectively with other areas of the clients to ensure solutions meet the stated intent.
?Experience and capability to lead an engineering activity or small project with minimal guidance, support and/or checking required.

Other Contextual Information/Special Features:
?Manage own workload, including time and deadline management.
?Manage own performance including self-development.
?Manage health and wellbeing.
?Mentor less experienced members of the engineering design team.
?Be expected to support and implement corporate decisions and initiatives.
?Be required to be on-call out of hours on a rota as part of this role.
?SC clearance required.



Location: Warrington, GB

Posted Date: 12/24/2024
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December 24, 2024
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