Senior Mechanical Engineer

Airswift; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Airswift in Farnborough, UK seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer to provide client-side technical authority for Mechanical, Materials Handling and Piping scopes, ensuring safety and constructibility.

You will drive engineering maturity across feasibility and execution, enforce Group Technical Standards, PMF and IDM, and coordinate with EPCM contractors and owner teams to align designs with stage-gate requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Specialisation in Material Handling is required.
• Postgraduate Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Chartered Engineer status with UK recognition.
• Minimum 10 years of registered engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical authority for Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping disciplines.
• Ensure design safety, constructibility, operability, and decision readiness for gates.
• Lead Owner Level 1 reviews and ensure stage gate maturity for deliverables.
• Manage changes and risk registers for discipline areas and interfaces.
• Coordinate with EPCM contractors and Integrated Owner Teams to ensure alignment with standards.

Skills

Leadership

Risk management

Scheduling

Governance

Coordination

Engineering maturity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Material Handling specialization

MSc in Mechanical Engineering (preferred)

Chartered Engineer (UK)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Primavera

ACONEX

MS Office

Job description

SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Location: Farnborough, UK Contract duration: initial contract duration until 31 Dec 2027 - renewable Start Date: ASAP

Primary Purpose

• Provide client-side technical authority and engineering governance for all Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping scopes, ensuring designs are safe, fit-for-purpose, constructible and decision-ready.
• Accountable for the technical integrity, quality, integration and maturity of Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping scopes across Feasibility Study and Execution phases.
• Enforces Group Technical Standards (GTS), Project Management Framework (PMF) and Investment Development Model (IDM) requirements, and ensures readiness for project decision gates.
• Acts with EPCM contractors and Integrated Owner Teams (consultants, experts SMEs), ensuring multidisciplinary coordination.
• Evaluated according to the P&D technical competencies and capability framework (Mental Processing, Knowledge, Technical Skills, Social Process Skills, Application)

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for engineering completeness, quality, integration, and L1 assurance of assigned project scope
• Acts as Owner’s technical authority for Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping disciplines, ensuring engineering is safe, constructible, operable, and decision ready.
• Responsible for ensuring the quality, maturity and completeness of engineering across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase of the project
• Verifies contractor engineering deliverables are fully aligned with GTS, PMF, IDM and stage-gate maturity requirements.
• Validates engineering readiness for critical decision gates (FS & execution release)
• Ensures Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping discipline inputs contributes to overall constructability, operability, safety-in-design, and sustainability principles.
• Ensure discipline, design, maturity and compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.
• Lead Owner Level 1 (L1) reviews of critical Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping engineering
• Verifies Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping deliverables meet stage completeness before recommending acceptance.
• Responsible for proper management changes, both internally and from engineering service contractors.
• Identify and ensure Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping discipline risks are included in risk register, including operational, safety, and integration risks.
• Identify long-lead items and technical interfaces impacting construction sequence and transition plan to operations.
• Responsible for supporting the delivery of the Feasibility Study and Execute phase with the agreed schedule and budget.

She Functions And Responsibilities

• Apply SHE values and ensure Design for Safety (DFS).
• Ensure discipline compliance with legal and corporate SHE requirements.
• Ensure timely implementation of risk controls.
• Promote continuous improvement in Safety, Health and Environment

CAPABILITIES REQUIRED TO DO THE ROLE

• Ability to manage complexity, integrate multidisciplinary inputs and make risk-based decisions.
• The ability to organise and process information of varying volume and complexity to solve problems and make effective decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver work at the required level of complexity.
• Leadership and teamwork capability.
• Techniques and approaches to achieve success in multidisciplinary and multi-project environments.
• Strong judgement in assessing engineering maturity prior to decision gate approvals

Qualifications

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) for the applicable discipline.
• Specialisation in Material Handling.
• Postgraduate specialization in Mechanical Engineering (preferred).
• Registered with a UK recognized engineering intitule as a professional / charted engineer.
• Proven track record with extensive practical experience.
• Minimum 10 years as a registered engineer.

Technical Knowledge

• Experience in engineering development for mining projects.
• Knowledge of applicable international and local engineering standards.
• Knowledge of legislation related to engineering disciplines and governance.
• Knowledge of HAZID and HAZOP processes and experience of the process and or leading of design reviews.
• Experience in EPCM environments and multidisciplinary integration. Including engineering development, procurement, contract management, site support, and vendor engineering review, as a Senior Engineer or Engineering Coordinator on large-scale projects, including at least one project exceeding USD 500 million, and preferably one exceeding USD 1 billion Total Installed Cost (TIC).
• Experience working in Owners Team.
• Ability to deliver value engineering, incorporating innovation and complementary disciplines (safety, environment, operations and maintenance, sustainability, and mine closure).
• Knowledge of PMI guidelines and tools, as well as Agile and Lean Construction methodologies.
• Knowledge — following appropriate training — of IDM / ICBS / PMF frameworks.
• Proficiency in project management software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, ACONEX, and others.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office.
• Detailed knowledge of BIM methodology and datacentric delivery principles.
• Advanced level of English.

Technical Skills

• Agile Discipline Management with Owner-side oversight of contractor-developed engineering scope.
• Governance and assurance of engineering scopes across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase, particularly for multidisciplinary underground mining projects,
• Change Management with formal control and approval of discipline-related technical changes
• Risk Management, including ownership of discipline risk identification, technical risk evaluation, mitigation strategies, and escalation to decision gate forums.
• Schedule Management, ensuring discipline deliverables are sufficiently mature, integrated, and stable to support irreversible project decisions.
• Engineering maturity assessment and formal validation of deliverables aligned with stage-gate readiness (FS & Execution).
• Continuous improvement leadership, embedding lessons learned and best practice into design activities

Application

• Experience and willingness to work in Mining Operations, addressing technical aspects to ensure that user requirements are met.
• The drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply the other capability elements to deliver safe, productive, and sustainable outcomes.
• Focus on Engineering Maturity: the degree to which engineering deliverables are sufficiently defined, complete, integrated, and stable to reliably support the decisions required at a specific project stage.
• Commitment to engineering maturity: ensuring deliverables are sufficiently defined, integrated and stable to support irreversible construction decisions.