AWE Looking for Senior Design Engineer at Reading, Berkshire Full Time

Are you an experienced Design Engineer interested in delivering the Engineering content across multiple Facilities within the Conventional and Nuclear Projects’ portfolio?

If so, this could be the role for you!

This is a great opportunity to work with a diverse team of people with an important mission to deliver. The role comes with excellent benefits including every other Friday off work!

Senior Design Engineer

Location: Reading / Basingstoke Area

Package: £42,650 – £65,000 (dependent on experience)

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

• Market leading contributory pension scheme

• Generous holiday entitlement (270 hours a year plus every other Friday off)

• Flexible working hours

• Salary sacrifice scheme

• Consideration for either full time or part time hours. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time

• Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)

Opportunities exist for candidates from either Electrical, Mechanical, HVAC, C&I, Civil Structural & Architectural (CS&A), Process Engineering, or a general background in Building Services who have progressed into Engineering Management specifically the area of Design Engineering Management.

Successful Candidates will be responsible for:

• Managing engineering design solutions which fully comply with all AWE and UK legal requirements together with AWE business case needs

• Establishing and maintaining (and deliver designs in accordance with) the Design Control Plans for projects

• Monitoring the co-ordination of engineering design activities of all design houses and other suppliers of engineering design contributing to the projects

• Monitoring Project changes as they affect Engineering Design Delivery and the effect of these changes against the initial budget and programme

• Contributing to integrated safety when reviewing engineering designs and ensure that all technical and design risks are identified and appropriately managed to meet project requirements and the letter and intent of the CDM Regulations, including discharging the designer’s role

Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

• An understanding of the design process to deliver either Conventional or Nuclear facilities, their building services and process plant and equipment

• Previous design management experience of multiple or discrete engineering packages of works that provide a design solution to a set of requirements in either the Conventional or Nuclear industries

• Good technical and management skills including problem solving and decision making

• Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for report, documentation and letter writing

• Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel

Ideally, we would expect candidates to have a Degree or equivalent qualification in a science or engineering discipline or equivalent vocational qualification.

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role and be willing and able to travel within the UK and overseas as required (if applicable) once restrictions are lifted.