Mechanical Engineer

Title: Mechanical Engineer

Job Type: Contract

Contract Length: 12 months +

Location: Chester

Rate: £50-£65 per hour

Job Purpose

Provision of plant facing Mechanical Engineering support for plant operations.

Delivery of quality design solutions to improve equipment reliability & performance.

Ensure regulatory compliance by implementing appropriate codes, standards and good engineering practice.

This section provides details on the specific or unique context that the job operates within.

- Organisation arrangements or structures which are unique

The multi-disciplined engineering team provides expertise to assess and develop plant modifications of various size and complexity.

The team provides oversight for modifications ensuring solutions are suitable for operation requirements, consistent with the safety case and suitably documented and followed through to implementation & close out.

The team works within a highly regulated environment and therefore must work to strict quality, safety and environmental standards.

The team need to develop an understanding of complex equipment and processes, enlist specialist support as required and turn this understanding into practical design solutions and / or recommendations for the Operating Team.

The plant facing team are required to support the CPO OPEX and CAPEX teams with scope development as required and will act as intelligent customers for project and 3rd party works as required.

- Systems, software or tools used

Routine use of Microsoft office, Documentum, SAP and in-house POSEIDON APPs

- Decision making responsibilities - examples include:

Act as Change manager and Technical Assessor for Plant facing Management of Change.

Preparing, reviewing, checking and approval of safety critical documentation

Reviewing, checking, approval as well as development of engineering designs

Resource management including engagement of third party support

Failure investigation and reporting

- Internal/External requirements or constraints (for instance compliance to internal/external regulations, laws)

Compliance with relevant regulations e.g. Nuclear site licence conditions, COMAH, PSSR, LOLER.

Knowledge of engineering standards e.g. ASME B31.3, PD5500

- Problems the role may face and their complexity

Align the design and implementation of improvements to outages in a way that ma...