Senior Project Engineer

Hinkley Supply Chain; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Pension contributions

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Life insurance

Performance pay

Parental leave

Cycle to work

Family-friendly policies

Employee Assistance Programme

Gym discounts

Career development

Job summary

Hinkley Supply Chain is seeking a highly skilled engineering leader to drive complex heavy lift and marine construction solutions at Hinkley Point and related sites. You will own critical deliverables, including drawings, calculations and methodologies, while guiding a team of engineers to maintain technical excellence.

The role combines office work with on-site delivery, requiring strong governance, client engagement and a mindset for mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified in an Engineering discipline (Masters preferred).
• Experience delivering complex construction or heavy lift projects.
• Experience with lifting operations and cranes.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and client engagements.
• Knowledge of technical codes and governance.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft tools.
• Mentoring juniors/Graduate engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of innovative, technically robust engineering solutions across heavy lift, transportation, installation and marine operations.
• Take ownership of complex engineering deliverables including drawings, calculations, visualisations, methodologies and risk assessments ensuring technical excellence throughout.
• Drive operational engineering delivery both in office and on-site, ensuring safe, efficient execution that meets client’s expectations and project objectives.
• Oversee and review the work of project and graduate engineers, providing guidance, quality assurance, mentorship and development across all areas.
• Act as a primary technical interface for clients and site teams, leading meetings, site visits and the development of concept solutions to unlock new opportunities.
• Develop and approve engineering statements, selecting or creating methodologies that address complex lifting and transport challenges.
• Uphold and enforce technical standards and governance, ensuring consistency, compliance and high-quality document control across the full project lifecycle.

Skills

Engineering degree

Heavy lift experience

Client facing

AutoCAD

MathCAD

Mentoring juniors

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office

MathCAD

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About the role

Osprey believes that innovative, precision-engineering logistics, by land and by water, can transform the way critical UK infrastructure is built. We bring together the very best multi-disciplinary engineering and delivery team to accelerate projects, enhance safety, and work side by side with clients to solve the most complex construction challenges.

Location

Hinkley Point, Bridgwater

Work Rotation

Monday-Friday

What You’ll do

• Lead the development of innovative, technically robust engineering solutions across heavy lift, transportation, installation and marine operations.
• Take ownership of complex engineering deliverables including drawings, calculations, visualisations, methodologies and risk assessments ensuring technical excellence throughout.
• Drive operational engineering delivery both in office and on-site, ensuring safe, efficient execution that meets client’s expectations and project objectives.
• Oversee and review the work of project and graduate engineers, providing guidance, quality assurance, mentorship and development across all areas.
• Act as a primary technical interface for clients and site teams, leading meetings, site visits and the development of concept solutions to unlock new opportunities.
• Develop and approve engineering statements, selecting or creating methodologies that address complex lifting and transport challenges.
• Uphold and enforce technical standards and governance, ensuring consistency, compliance and high-quality document control across the full project lifecycle.

Skills & Experience

• Degree-qualified in an Engineering discipline (Masters preferred), with strong technical grounding across multiple engineering areas.
• Proven experience delivering complex, large-scale construction or heavy lift projects across transportation, lifting, installing or marine scopes.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement innovative engineering solutions withing heavy lift, transport or related sectors.
• Extensive hands-on experience with lifting operations including mobile, tower, and crawler cranes with a strong understanding of practical site constraint.
• Confident client facing professional, experienced in leading technical discussions, site engagements and developing concept solutions.
• Strong knowledge of relevant technical codes, standards and governance.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft tools (MathCAD desirable), with the ability to produce and review high-quality technical documentation.
• Passion for mentoring and developing Junior/Graduate engineers, with experience providing guidance, feedback and technical oversight to support their growth.

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays
• Enhanced employer pension contributions and salary sacrifice schemes
• Private medical insurance
• Income protection insurance
• Life insurance cover
• Performance-related pay scheme
• Enhanced parental leave benefits
• Cycle to work scheme
• Family-friendly policies
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Get Active from Aviva – Gym discounts up to 40% off
• Support your career development through our success management process

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.