Senior Process Engineer
Posted 1 week ago by Westlakes Recruit
£65 Per hour
Undetermined
Undetermined
Preston, Lancashire
Summary: The Senior Process Engineer role at Westlakes Recruit involves leading process engineering requirements for complex projects in the nuclear sector. The position requires accountability for design deliverables, technical documentation, and compliance with industry standards. The engineer will also mentor a team and manage relationships with clients and stakeholders. This contract-based position is located in Preston, Lancashire.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the project's single point of authority and accountability for the process engineering discipline.
- Lead a multi-disciplined engineering team and collaborate with the client's engineering team.
- Develop key design deliverables such as Process Flow Diagrams and Process & Instrumentation Diagrams.
- Check and approve calculations including mass, energy, and flow balances.
- Ensure design deliverables meet high standards and comply with relevant regulations.
- Produce technically accurate and professionally presented documentation.
- Prepare and review quality plans for work packages.
- Manage technical issues and implement necessary change control.
- Ensure designs comply with CDM regulations and present designs to clients and stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers/designers to enhance skills and capabilities.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related discipline.
- Chartered Member of the IChemE.
- Detailed knowledge of relevant standards, regulations, and codes.
- At least 8+ years of industry experience, with 3 years at Senior Engineer level.
- Ideally 5+ years in the nuclear industry or other highly regulated sectors.
Salary (Rate): £65/hour
City: Preston
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Engineering
Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for an experienced Process Engineer to be engaged on a contract basis, based in Preston.
Overview
Responsible for leading the delivery of all Process Engineering requirements across either a single large/complex project or multiple medium sized/complexity projects.
Responsibilities
- Act as the project's single point of authority and accountability for the process engineering discipline
- Dependent on project scope, lead a multi-disciplined engineering team reporting to the Project Manager and working closely with the clients responsible engineering team.
- Responsible for the development key design deliverables such as Process drawings: Process Flow Diagrams and Process & Instrumentation Diagrams/Engineering Flow Diagrams.
- Checking and Approval of calculations including mass, energy and flow balances, pipe and equipment sizing.
- Ensure that design deliverables are of a high standard and compliant with relevant standards, regulations and customer specific standards.
- Ensuring that design consultants and sub-contractors deploy suitably qualified and experienced personnel.
- Production of documentation that is technically accurate, grammatically correct, correctly formatted and professionally presented
- Preparing and reviewing quality plans for multi or single discipline work packages
- Ensure work delivered is within the defined scope and completed to time and budget.
- Manage resolutions to technical issues and ensure necessary change control is implemented and address commercial impacts.
- Ensure designs are compliant with CDM regulations and have designer responsibility under CDM
- Present Process engineering designs to clients and key stakeholders who may be discipline experts or non-discipline related.
- Present technical solutions at design reviews and HAZOPs
- Production and checking of safety related documents such as Hazard Management Strategy and Engineering Substantiation / Justifications Report.
- Mentor a team of engineers/designers to improve their own skill sets and enhance the company's capabilities
- Develop and manage/maintain good working relationships with key counterparts in client or partner organisation
Knowledge/Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or associated discipline
- Chartered Member of the IChemE
- Detailed knowledge of standards, regulations, codes and directives and how they should be applied including (but not limited to) Pressure Equipment Regulations, COMAH, COSHH, DSEAR etc.
Essential experience
- At least 8+ years' experience in industry at least 3 years at Senior Engineer level
- Ideally 5+ years in the nuclear industry or other highly regulated sector
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