Our client, a prominent entity in the nuclear sector, is currently seeking an experienced FEED Area Engineering Manager for a contract role based in Warrington, with hybrid working arrangements and occasional site visits to Sellafield.
Key Responsibilities:
Engineering Leadership:
- Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams through FEED activities across multiple projects.
- Define and mature engineering scope from initial concept through Gate 2.
- Develop engineering strategies aligned to programme and business objectives.
- Ensure engineering solutions are safe, legally compliant, proportionate and fit for purpose.
- Lead engineering integration across all engineering disciplines.
Project Definition:
Lead the engineering activities required to develop projects including:
- Scope definition
- Requirements management
- Functional specification development
- Engineering option development
- Value Management
- Optioneering
- Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessments
- Engineering substantiation
- Delivery strategy development
Develop projects to the level of maturity required for transition into detailed design and project delivery, reflecting the Gate 0-2 mobilisation activities identified in the client role specification.
Stakeholder Management:
Work collaboratively with:
- Sellafield Programme teams
- Project Engineering Managers
- Safety Case teams
- Operations
- Construction
- Commissioning
- Technical Authorities
- Subject Matter Experts
Facilitate engineering decision-making and build consensus around preferred technical solutions.
Job Requirements:
Essential Experience:
- Significant engineering leadership experience within a highly regulated industry.
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Experience delivering Front End Engineering Design (FEED), concept, feasibility, appraisal, or optioneering phases of major capital projects.
- Experience developing engineering requirements and translating them into deliverable engineering solutions.
- Strong understanding of engineering governance and design assurance.
- Experience managing engineering scope, cost, schedule, and technical risk.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior technical and programme stakeholders.
- Experience working within integrated engineering teams.
Desirable Experience:
- Sellafield experience.
- Nuclear industry experience.
- Systems Engineering.
- Requirements Management.
- Value Management facilitation.
- Technology Readiness Assessment.
- CDM Principal Designer experience.
- Safety Case development.
- NEC contract awareness.
- Experience supporting projects through Gate 0-2.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
- Chartered Engineer (or working towards).
- Membership of a recognised professional institution.
Desirable:
- INCOSE ASEP/CSEP.
- Requirements Management certification.
- Value Management qualification.
If you are an experienced engineering leader looking for a challenging role within the nuclear sector, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic team in Warrington.
