Engineering Manager

Orano; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Non Contributory Pension Scheme

25 days annual leave

Group Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Pay

Job summary

Orano is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a multi-discipline design team focused on nuclear glovebox projects in the UK. The candidate will oversee the engineering work packages, ensuring quality and compliance with regulations, while managing both technical risks and resources.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in engineering, particularly within nuclear projects, and be comfortable working on UK defence initiatives. Offering a competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 7 years' experience in engineering roles within regulated systems.
• 5 years' experience preferably in nuclear engineering role.
• Experience in chairing design governance reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-discipline design engineering team.
• Ensure design solutions are fit for purpose and meet specifications.
• Report on the status and performance of the engineering work.

Skills

Nuclear glovebox design

Engineering governance reviews

Regulated quality systems knowledge

Education

BEng (Hons)

MEng (Hons)

Job description

Description

The Engineering Manager will organise, lead, coordinate and direct a multi-discipline design engineering team (including technical, safety case and supply chain as applicable) that delivers engineering work packages (specification, analysis, verification or assessment of engineering). Orano is currently involved in fast‑paced projects for the design of nuclear gloveboxes for analysis and R&D work, including handling of SNM and MoX material. This work is for a variety of UK clients and the candidate will be deployed onto one of these. Experience in nuclear glovebox design, commissioning or operations would be a benefit, as would experience in SNM or MoX plants. The candidate must be comfortable working on UK defence projects. Location: Warrington or Abingdon (hybrid).

Accountabilities

• Ensuring work portfolio is delivered and controlled efficiently and effectively to meet agreed specification, cost and schedule.
• Ensuring design solutions are fit for purpose, integrated, affordable and deliver the business case, functional specification and project execution plan.
• Ensuring all technical, safety and engineering risks are identified, owned and managed.
• Ensuring status and performance of work is accurately and timely reported.
• Ensuring appropriate and adequate design standards and practices are deployed and deliverables and solutions generated are safe, legal and adequately underpinned.
• Ensuring competent people are deployed and periodic forecasting of resources is accurate and timely.
• Ensuring design resource strategy is implemented within portfolio.
• Ensuring design key roles are filled with SQEPped and competent people and the duties of the CDM coordinator are adequately discharged.
• Ensuring subject matter experts are appropriately and adequately engaged in a timely manner and LFE is captured, disseminated and utilised.

Authorities

• To work within financial delegations.
• To assign approval of technical content of design deliverables to competent persons or groups.
• To make recommendations on make / buy decisions and selection / appointment and agreement of supply chain organisation.
• To approve the engineering strategy, cost estimate and schedule for specific areas of responsibility.
• Prioritisation and allocation of work assignments for team and production of design deliverables.

Qualifications

Minimum – BEng (Hons).

Professional Membership

Preferred – MEng (Hons). Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Fellow (FEng). NOTE: Equivalent experience can be offered in lieu of chartership if it is deemed appropriate by the Head of Engineering.

Experience

• 7 years within the previous 10 years working in roles where knowledge of engineering was a key attribute. In addition, the last 5 years will have been working within a regulated and quality assured system (preferably nuclear) in roles where professional engineering judgement is the key attribute.
• Preferred requirement – 8 years within the last 10 years in engineering design.
• Experience of chairing governance reviews, design reviews and any other gate reviews to accept designs, strategies and provide technical governance.

Additional

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the UK, and be willing to undergo a security vetting process. Offers of employment will be subject to relevant security clearance being granted. Close working relationships with other Orano sites and client sites may be required, which necessitates regular travel to those sites (dependent upon project & client requirements).

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Private Medical Insurance at Single, Partner and Family levels
• Non Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing by 1 day per year of service up to a cap of 30
• Group Life Assurance of 4 times annual salary and Group Income Protection scheme for long term sickness
• Enhanced Maternity Pay