Mechanical Project Engineer

Astute’s Power Team is partnering with a leading UK energy company to recruit a Mechanical Project Engineer for its central engineering team, working across its sites in Kent and North London.

This role offers £55,000 to £73,000 plus private medical and dental insurance, 26 days’ annual leave and 12% pension contributions.

If you’re an HND or degree-qualified Mechanical Engineer with heavy industrial experience in the power industry and want to join a leading energy company’s central engineering team, submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities of the Mechanical Project Engineer

Reporting to the Asset Support & Outage Team Leader, you will:

• Deliver projects and outages while managing stakeholders, ensuring compliance with regulatory and HSSE standards
• Carry out proactive and reactive mechanical engineering work, including fault finding, problem solving and investigations
• Lead project teams and contractors depending on project complexity
• Define scopes of work and develop technical and contract specifications
• Ensure contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control standards are established and met
• Promote and contribute to health, safety, environmental and quality improvements
• Apply engineering expertise to maximise plant performance, resource utilisation and availability
• Investigate issues, determine root causes and implement engineering resolutions within change management processes
• Share best practice by networking, benchmarking and collaborating across sites and teams
• Manage contracts and projects, including commercial, technical and compliance aspects

Required qualifications and experience

To be considered, you must have:

• Heavy industrial mechanical engineering experience within the power industry
• Applied experience in industrial process plant mechanical engineering, including pressure systems
• HND or degree in Mechanical Engineering (or a related discipline)
• IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH Certificate (or equivalent)
• Project and contract management experience, including use of project management tools and techniques

Salary and benefits

• Salary: £55,000 to £73,000
• Location: Sites in Kent and North London
• Benefits: Private medical and dental, 26 days’ annual leave and 12% pension contributions

Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Astute is also committed to the government’s Disability Confident Employer initiative. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.