Job Description

Working in a multi-disciplinary team delivering projects in the Nuclear Sector. Responsible for the production of C&I design deliverables including analysis, calculations, reports and specifications.

Taking responsibility for leading small projects and sub tasks from a technical perspective. Communicate designs effectively to instrument designers, other disciplines, construction personnel and stakeholders.

Attendance occasionally required for site visits, design reviews and client meetings, mainly within the Northwest region. Support and guide more junior team members.

Challenge and deliver value engineering solutions. Confident and authoritative in front of clients.

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Responsibilities

As a client facing Principal Engineer, your responsibilities could involve:

• Responsibility for instrument discipline technical input for projects and/or proposals; including preparation, checking and/or approval of engineering documentation
• Organising discipline staff, allocating work and ensuring delivery against plan
• Mentoring and developing graduates and less experienced engineers
• Production of high-quality C&I engineering deliverables to schedule, budget and client satisfaction
• Ensuring all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures are complied with
• Preparing equipment and materials requisitions for control systems, safety systems, analyser houses, field instrumentation and other instrument equipment
• Preparing installation scopes of works
• Reviewing supplier's quotations and preparing technical bid assessments

More specific tasks could include:

• Full life-cycle development (hardware and software) of either control or protection systems
• Software qualification of SMART devices and PLCs
• Functional Safety determination (both probabilistic and deterministic)
• Production and modification of C&I safety cases and / or cyber security cases

Qualifications

Essential

• Good knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline within the Nuclear sector.
• Significant instrument engineering experience with a significant portion spent in the Nuclear sector
• Security Clearance or capability to achieve it
• Extensive knowledge of UK legislation and standards
• Competence in the requirements for installation of equipment on Nuclear plant
• Experience in the requirements for CE marking of plant and equipment, including ATEX, DSEAR, PED, Low Voltage Directive, Machinery Directive and EMC Compliance
• Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements
• Degree in Control Engineering or suitable equivalent (e.g. Electronic / Electrical / Instrumentation Engineering) Apprenticeships may be considered
• Chartered or Incorporated engineer status with a relevant professional body or evidence of being close to gaining these professional titles
• Eligibility to obtain Security Clearance, UK Citizen or UK residency for 5 years

Desirable

• Experience of working in multi-discipline teams
• Experience of leading projects in a client facing role
• Experience in the requirements for ATEX
• Formal Functional Safety qualification

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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