Senior Mechanical Engineer
3 days ago
Farnborough
Location: Farnborough, UK Contract duration: initial contract duration until 31 Dec 2027 - renewable Start Date: ASAP • Provide client-side technical authority and engineering governance for all Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping scopes, ensuring designs are safe, fit-for-purpose, constructible and decision-ready., • Accountable for the technical integrity, quality, integration and maturity of Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping scopes across Feasibility Study and Execution phases., • Enforces Group Technical Standards (GTS), Project Management Framework (PMF) and Investment Development Model (IDM) requirements, and ensures readiness for project decision gates., • Acts with EPCM contractors and Integrated Owner Teams (consultants, experts SMEs), ensuring multidisciplinary coordination., • Evaluated according to the P&D technical competencies and capability framework (Mental Processing, Knowledge, Technical Skills, Social Process Skills, Application), • Responsible for engineering completeness, quality, integration, and L1 assurance of assigned project scope, • Acts as Owner’s technical authority for Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping disciplines, ensuring engineering is safe, constructible, operable, and decision ready., • Responsible for ensuring the quality, maturity and completeness of engineering across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase of the project, • Verifies contractor engineering deliverables are fully aligned with GTS, PMF, IDM and stage-gate maturity requirements., • Validates engineering readiness for critical decision gates (FS & execution release), • Ensures Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping discipline inputs contributes to overall constructability, operability, safety-in-design, and sustainability principles., • Ensure discipline, design, maturity and compliance with corporate and regulatory standards., • Lead Owner Level 1 (L1) reviews of critical Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping engineering, • Verifies Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping deliverables meet stage completeness before recommending acceptance., • Responsible for proper management changes, both internally and from engineering service contractors., • Identify and ensure Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping discipline risks are included in risk register, including operational, safety, and integration risks., • Identify long-lead items and technical interfaces impacting construction sequence and transition plan to operations., • Responsible for supporting the delivery of the Feasibility Study and Execute phase with the agreed schedule and budget., • Apply SHE values and ensure Design for Safety (DFS)., • Ensure discipline compliance with legal and corporate SHE requirements., • Ensure timely implementation of risk controls., • Promote continuous improvement in Safety, Health and Environment, • Ability to manage complexity, integrate multidisciplinary inputs and make risk-based decisions., • The ability to organise and process information of varying volume and complexity to solve problems and make effective decisions., • Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver work at the required level of complexity., • Leadership and teamwork capability., • Techniques and approaches to achieve success in multidisciplinary and multi-project environments., • Strong judgement in assessing engineering maturity prior to decision gate approvals, • An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) for the applicable discipline., • Specialisation in Material Handling., • Postgraduate specialization in Mechanical Engineering (preferred)., • Registered with a UK recognized engineering intitule as a professional / charted engineer., • Proven track record with extensive practical experience., • Minimum 10 years as a registered engineer., • Experience in engineering development for mining projects., • Knowledge of applicable international and local engineering standards., • Knowledge of legislation related to engineering disciplines and governance., • Knowledge of HAZID and HAZOP processes and experience of the process and or leading of design reviews., • Experience in EPCM environments and multidisciplinary integration. Including engineering development, procurement, contract management, site support, and vendor engineering review, as a Senior Engineer or Engineering Coordinator on large-scale projects, including at least one project exceeding USD 500 million, and preferably one exceeding USD 1 billion Total Installed Cost (TIC)., • Experience working in Owners Team., • Ability to deliver value engineering, incorporating innovation and complementary disciplines (safety, environment, operations and maintenance, sustainability, and mine closure)., • Knowledge of PMI guidelines and tools, as well as Agile and Lean Construction methodologies., • Knowledge — following appropriate training — of IDM / ICBS / PMF frameworks., • Proficiency in project management software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, ACONEX, and others., • Advanced proficiency in MS Office., • Detailed knowledge of BIM methodology and datacentric delivery principles., • Advanced level of English., • Agile Discipline Management with Owner-side oversight of contractor-developed engineering scope., • Governance and assurance of engineering scopes across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase, particularly for multidisciplinary underground mining projects,, • Change Management with formal control and approval of discipline-related technical changes, • Risk Management, including ownership of discipline risk identification, technical risk evaluation, mitigation strategies, and escalation to decision gate forums., • Schedule Management, ensuring discipline deliverables are sufficiently mature, integrated, and stable to support irreversible project decisions., • Engineering maturity assessment and formal validation of deliverables aligned with stage-gate readiness (FS & Execution)., • Continuous improvement leadership, embedding lessons learned and best practice into design activities, • Experience and willingness to work in Mining Operations, addressing technical aspects to ensure that user requirements are met., • The drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply the other capability elements to deliver safe, productive, and sustainable outcomes., • Focus on Engineering Maturity: the degree to which engineering deliverables are sufficiently defined, complete, integrated, and stable to reliably support the decisions required at a specific project stage., • Commitment to engineering maturity: ensuring deliverables are sufficiently defined, integrated and stable to support irreversible construction decisions. #J-18808-Ljbffr