Senior Mechanical Engineer

Jacobs; North East; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the energy sector seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne. You will contribute to high-profile nuclear projects, delivering complex engineering solutions while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The role offers flexible working patterns and opportunities for professional development within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Free medical cover

Enhanced parental leave pay

Professional development reimbursement

Paid volunteering time

Charitable donations support

Qualifications

• Experience in civil or nuclear regulated industries.
• Motivated and proactive approach to engineering challenges.
• Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to project delivery across lifecycle from bid generation to installation.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to solve technical challenges.
• Produce and review design deliverables and maintain client relationships.

Skills

People skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Job description

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Senior Mechanical Engineer, Newcastle upon Tyne

Client: Jacobs

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 9b9207373166

Job Views: 3

Posted: 02.07.2025

Expiry Date: 16.08.2025

Job Description:

Senior Mechanical Engineer-(EST0004QL)

Your Impact:

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

About the Opportunity:

Amentum is currently recruiting for Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our Energy business.

The department is entering an exciting phase of opportunity by supporting our key client’s UK nuclear fleet through a business transformation, and by supporting new small modular reactor developers. Our work is varied, covering New Build, Generation, Life Extension, and Defueling, and our capabilities are in demand across the nuclear sector.

The successful candidate must be highly motivated and proactive and looking to develop their technical capabilities.

Centre to the success of the role will be your people skills, building effective relationships and interacting with multiple internal and external stakeholders in multiple locations.

This post is for those with experience of working within the civil, nuclear or other highly regulated industries. Candidates will be familiar with the requirements of working in a regulated environment with providing engineering support, you will deliver work to high HSSE standards in compliance to HSSE regulations.

The role offers good variety of work and opportunities to become involved in reviewing design/design substantiation, production of calculations, providing advice on wide ranging technical issues and queries and supporting refurbishment/modification projects to extend life of plant & equipment.

Your role will be to deliver complex engineering solutions to time, cost and quality on projects of varying sizes.

This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Warrington, Gloucester, Bristol or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we’re happy to consider flexible working patterns.

Key responsibilities will be:

1. Contribute to project delivery teams across the project lifecycle from bid generation, through concept and detailed design development to installation and commissioning
2. Work within integrated multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high profile projects
3. Take ownership of technical challenges, develop a strategy and implement the solution through engagement with internal and external stakeholders
4. Produce and review design deliverables (assumption notes, technical specifications and calculation notes, technical reports, etc)
5. Build and manage client relationships and leverage those relationships to deliver continued opportunities and new business leads
6. Demonstrate knowledge of the practical aspects of implementing engineering designs and understand the use of standards and compliance with regulatory requirements in an engineering environment
7. Simplify complex problems and build and maintain valuable relationships

Here's What You'll Need:

Primary Location: United Kingdom - Newcastle Upon Tyne - UK Newcastle Partnership House

Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time

Job Posting: Jun 2, 2025, 2:40:01 PM

Job: Mechanical

Organization: CMS

Job Type: Experienced, Full-time, Regular

Work Locations: UK Newcastle Partnership House, Partnership House, Regent Farm Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE3 3AF

Capabilities: Nuclear Existing Power Plants