Mechanical Project Engineer – Regulated Ops (Contract)

First Recruitment Group; Aldermaston; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

First Recruitment Group is seeking a Mechanical Project Engineer for a contract assignment at Aldermaston. The role focuses on maintaining critical mechanical assets, delivering improvements, and supporting decommissioning within a highly regulated facility.

You will develop asset baselines, create technical reports, and work closely with operations, maintenance and project teams to deliver safe, compliant engineering solutions in live environments.

Qualifications

• Degree/HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in facility engineering and/or project engineering roles.
• Proven experience in highly regulated environments such as nuclear, defence, process, energy, petrochemical or similar industries.
• Strong understanding of mechanical plant, equipment and infrastructure within operational facilities.
• Experience developing engineering work packs and technical documentation.
• Demonstrable experience delivering engineering solutions within live facilities.
• Ability to translate operational challenges into practical engineering improvements.
• Experience working across both operational and project delivery functions.
• Knowledge of asset management

Responsibilities

• Identify and define critical mechanical assets and supporting systems for operational and decommissioning activities.
• Develop asset baselines and system dependency information down to subsystem level.
• Review and enhance asset information to improve engineering understanding and asset management.
• Carry out asset condition assessments considering reliability, availability, obsolescence, maintainability and operational risk.
• Assign risk-based priorities and provide recommendations for asset improvements.
• Develop and implement improvement plans for critical assets.
• Produce engineering documentation, work packs and technical reports.
• Support maintenance, repair, refurbishment and replacement activities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify plant infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
• Develop asset lifecycle and spare parts strategies for critical systems.
• Support identification and isolation of redundant mechanical systems.
• Work with operations, maintenance and project teams to deliver engineering solutions.
• Support engineering delivery within live operational facilities.
• Assist with engineering governance, compliance and safety requirements.
• Support delivery of prioritised engineering tasks based on operational need and risk.

Skills

Regulated environment experience

Live facilities experience

Education

Degree/HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

10+ years facility/project engineering experience

Job description

First Recruitment Group is seeking a Mechanical Project Engineer for a contract assignment at Aldermaston. The role focuses on maintaining critical mechanical assets, delivering improvements, and supporting decommissioning within a highly regulated facility.

You will develop asset baselines, create technical reports, and work closely with operations, maintenance and project teams to deliver safe, compliant engineering solutions in live environments.