Process Discipline Lead - Warrington or Abingdon

Orano Projects Limited; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Non Contributory Pension

25 days annual leave

Group Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Enhanced Maternity Pay

Job summary

Orano Projects Limited seeks a Name Process Discipline Lead to drive process engineering across Warrington or Abingdon sites. The role requires leadership of a senior team, SQEP alignment, and strong governance with regulators.

You will oversee resource deployment, develop procedures, and champion risk mitigation across multiple plant types and lifecycle stages.

Qualifications

• Extensive process engineering experience in regulated environments.
• Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team and manage design reviews.
• Strong SQEP focus and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and governance of process engineering capabilities.
• Allocate resources and manage key engineers to project goals.
• Provide consultancy on process engineering matters and risk mitigation.
• Liaise with regulators and ensure compliance in procedures.

Education

BEng (Hons)

MEng (Hons)

Job description

Name Process Discipline Lead - Warrington or Abingdon

Ref # 15173

Posting Date Monday, July 13, 2026

Country United Kingdom

Region Oxfordshire

City Abingdon

Business Unit (BU) OP

Type of Employment Permanent/Regular

Desired Starting Date 31-08-2026

Work Schedule Full time

Remote Work Hybrid

Job TA - STUDIES & DESIGN

Description

Accountabilities

• Developing, maintaining and sustaining the process engineering capabilities needed to deliver the engineering function
• Guide development of pragmatic, fit-for-purpose process engineering solutions for all projects.
• Ensuring that the process engineering staff deployed to the business are suitably qualified and experienced (SQEP) and capable of fulfilling their assigned roles.
• Acquiring and allocating internal process engineering resources, enabling resource mobility, and optimising resource deployment to maximise value.
• Working to develop, maintain and apply process engineering procedures, standards and guides.
• Recommending process engineering Supply Chain capability requirements and links with parent companies and professional bodies to develop a strategic network of resources and ready access to subject matter experts.
• Selection, SQEPing and appointment of Principal Engineers and direct reports.
• The leadership, mentoring, health, safety, career development and performance management of direct reports.
• Ensuring that appropriate single discipline design reviews are carried out and multi discipline design reviews are supported in a timely manner.
• Providing consultancy support, advice and guidance on process engineering matters.
• Providing process engineering support to ensure that design engineering related risks are identified and mitigation plans developed.
• Supporting communication and liaison with regulators as required.
• Reviewing pertinent process engineering legislation and ensuring that relevant requirements are incorporated in engineering procedures.
• Collation and dissemination of process engineering LFE.

Authorities

• To work within financial delegation
• Appointment of Principal Engineers.
• In conjunction with the Head of Engineering, set the strategy for recruitment and management of process engineering resources
• Recruitment, deployment and redeployment (mobility) of process engineering resources.
• Intervention to resolve conflicts and, if necessary, recommend suspension of work related to process engineering matters.
• Access to enable process engineering related audits to be conducted.
• Approval and implementation of process engineering procedures, guides and standards.
• Prioritisation and allocation of work assignments within process engineering.

Qualifications

Minimum – BEng (Hons)

Preferred – MEng (Hons)

Professional Membership: Chartered Engineer MIChemE

NOTE: Equivalent experience can be offered in lieu of chartership if it is deemed appropriate by the Head of Engineering

Experience

• Extensive experience in process engineering. In addition, will have extensive recent experience working in regulated and quality assured systems in nuclear roles where engineering judgement is a key attribute.
• Extensive experience of delivering complex process engineering packages, for a number of plant types at different lifecycle stages, demonstrating the capability to lead a dedicated team with an established reputation in this field at national/international level.
• Experience of using knowledge and expertise from elsewhere to develop new ideas/ways of working to provide added value while managing the delivery variations and identifying innovations to support future development.
• Extensive experience of interfacing with other discipline specialists as well as leading a multi-disciplinary team, e.g. other engineering disciplines, shielding, safety etc.
• Experience in acting as an Intelligent Client/Independent Subject Matter Expert within the assurance process (e.g. design review, peer review, independent technical assessment etc.).
• Experienced in undertaking the role of lead author/checker/approver for complicated process engineering activities and deliverables for high hazard category facilities/plants.
• Experience and direct involvement of the approval of process engineering proposals to support new business cases and strategies at client sites.
• Experience of chairing governance reviews, design reviews and any other gate reviews to accept designs, strategies and provide technical governance.

Benefits

• 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