Job Description

The Process Engineering Responsible Engineer (RE) will manage the process design and engineering aspects of the programme, ensuring all requirements for the nuclear licensed site are met. This role requires an experienced process engineer to lead the process team on assigned engineering design projects.

Nuclear engineering at Costain offers the opportunity to work on meaningful long-term, nationally significant infrastructure with a level of technical rigour and safety focus unmatched in most industries.

If you are an engineer from a regulated industry and are curious about nuclear - we would welcome a conversation, even if you're unsure whether you meet every requirement.

The RE will manage both internal engineers and external consultants or subcontractors, ensuring that designs are delivered on time, within budget, and in technical compliance. It is essential that all designs are safe, sustainable, and efficient to construct. A key responsibility is ensuring that management systems, including digital processes, are followed to provide stakeholder assurance.

Project Information; 15-year contract award will deliver critical utilities infrastructure upgrades at Sellafield's Cumbria decommissioning site.

The IDP will deliver asset care task and project work on the existing site infrastructure as well as introducing new capability to enhance and evolve the Site Infrastructure. Contracts will be placed to deliver continued project and task work from inception, design, construction through to commissioning.

As Utilities Delivery Partner, Costain's role will include the completion of detailed design and all procurement, installation, construction, commissioning and handover activities that form part of the contract delivery.

This hybrid role is based in Manchester or Warrington or Cumbria. The successful Candidate will need to be able to achieve the relevant security clearance. Security clearance support is provided.

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Responsibilities

Role Dimensions

A Principal Process Engineer will normally be the most senior engineer of the discipline on a particular project with full authority to act as the Lead Engineer for that discipline on a project. The role reports to the Process Discipline Manager and the Project Engineering Manager and is supported by the discipline Technical Authority.

Duties

• To lead a team of process engineers on projects, studies and proposals, to execute the process engineering scope of work according to contract requirements, in compliance with company and client standards and procedures.
• Responsibility for discipline quality, programme and cost targets.
• To perform own design work and check work by others in accordance with company procedures.
• To approve project deliverables when authorised by the Process Engineering Technical Authority.
• To represent Process Engineering in discussions and meetings with client, vendors and third parties.
• To develop discipline programme activities/deliverables and interdependencies, plan for adequate resources and to monitor and report design progress and man-hour usage to the project management team.
• To work in a collaborative multi-disciplinary project delivery team, through proactive liaison with other disciplines and to ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
• To ensure personal compliance with current company policy, relevant legislation and company and client's requirements for Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental matters and work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, client and subcontractor employees or the environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in technical delivery and management roles in an engineering/consultancy environment
• Significant years of experience within the Energy Industry with an emphasis on pre-feasibility and feasibility studies.
• Experience with process modelling tools like UniSim, HYSYS, ASPEN Plus, VMGsim
• Prepares technically correct, safe, and effective analysis and solutions.
• Works independently applying advanced techniques and analysis within the discipline.
• Provides less experienced engineers with guidance and training and check their deliverables. Strong written and communication skills are essential.
• Experienced process engineering technical specialist.
• Recent UK project experience
• Understanding of whole delivery process from work winning to scheme handover in a variety of sectors
• Extensive technical, practical and leadership experience in the process discipline in the same or similar industry, including experience managing and leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
• Collaborative, innovative and agile
• Experienced customer facing capability with an ability to develop and influence relationships.
• Proven people skills and an effective communicator (written & verbal)
• Able to travel mainly across the UK and visit project sites / suppliers, at short notice occasionally.
• Attention to detail, meticulous and methodical.
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines

Desirable

• Good Knowledge and experience across a range of sectors including oil & gas, nuclear, water, chemical, industrial.
• Knowledge and understanding of UK technical and regulatory standards and global best practice.
• Proven engineering and business system/software skills alonf with proven ability in line management, mentoring and team development

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Chemical Engineering
• Minimum Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering or related fields, or Master's would be preferred.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer preferred (MIChemE/FIChemE).
• An all-around experience in upstream/ downstream segments and some exposure to energy transition would be preferred
• Experience in class 5/4 cost estimation would be a plus.

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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