Design Engineering Manager

This contract with our defence client is for a Design Engineering Manager for 18 months. The role is located in Aldermaston and requires 5 days per week onsite, there may be a possibility of occasional days working from home.  

Some of the main responsibilities for this role include:  

• Be responsible for maintaining a live safety case for a facility which will include managing the production of engineering design substantiation and assessments to demonstrate that their new and existing assets (facilities, infrastructure, plant and equipment), are safe to operate and are compliant with legislation, Nuclear Licence Conditions, standards and requirements throughout the asset lifecycle  

• Provide management of a professional engineering service in support of the CASD Programme and the company’s strategic goals  

• Able to work across functions, providing a supportive interface between the Facility, Safety Case Subject Matter Experts and Technical Authorities

• Design or operational experience in a regulated environment (Nuclear, Gas, Oil, Rail, Pharma)  

• Experience of working in a highly regulated environment with responsibility for ensuring the quality and timely delivery of engineering design and outputs which underpins continuous safe operations  

• Experience of working in a multi-discipline environment with responsibility for the engineering design and guardianship of high integrity assets through the whole life cycle  

• Experience of articulating technical complexities, able to direct work and team to meet the programme  

• Knowledge of legislation and standards relating to safety and safety maintenance within engineering e.g. HSAWA, CDM and their application if needed  

• Experience of configuration and change control: governance, and implementation on a Nuclear licensed site. Including line of sight from maintenance results to the engineering schedule  

• Experience of Maintaining a live safety case  

• Experience of conducting assessments to support the Periodic Review of Safety