Senior Project Engineer

STFC; East Hagbourne; On-site; GBP 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Join STFC as a Senior Project Engineer, where you will lead innovative mechanical engineering projects that shape research at our world-class facilities. This role offers the opportunity to work with leading scientists and contribute to groundbreaking advancements in materials science. Flexible working hours and a competitive salary package are available.

Benefits

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Defined average salary pension scheme

Employee shopping/travel discounts

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex mechanical engineering projects from concept to commissioning.
• Strong understanding of Industrial Standards and Regulations.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver bespoke research equipment and design analysis and development tasks.
• Manage time, cost, and quality for large-scale engineering projects.
• Promote sustainability in developing new materials.

Skills

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Mechanical Engineering

Education

Degree in Engineering or Engineering Apprenticeship + HNC

Project Management Qualification

Job description

Salary: £56,509 per annum

Hours: Full time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants)

Contract Type: Open Ended.

Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire

Come and do the kind of engineering that made you want to be an engineer. Stretch your technical skills while enabling the advancement of humanities understanding of materials. Promote sustainability and create new materials and, alongside world-leading scientists and technologists, shape projects that improve lives, in the UK and far beyond. Put simply, come and discover the impact you can make when you are equipped, encouraged and inspired to perform to your very best.

Are you a self-motivated mechanical engineer interested in the development of innovative mechanical equipment, involving novel concepts, novel materials, and extremely challenging requirements?

The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Design Division has an immediate requirement for multiple experienced Senior Project Engineers with project management and leadership experience to deliver bespoke research equipment, Design, analysis and development of accelerator, target and instrument systems is a key element in supporting the user community carrying out scientific studies at the ISIS facility.

Person Specification

The below will be reviewed at Shortlisting (S) and/or Interview (I)

For a Project engineer role, we are excited to hear from Engineers with:

• A degree in an engineering-based subject or an engineering apprenticeship + HNC, OR a project management qualification and experience in delivering complex engineering projects (S&I).
• Experience in leading the engineering of complex and bespoke predominately mechanical equipment through the complete lifecycle, from concept to commissioning (S&I).
• Exposure to project management of bespoke large-scale engineering projects (responsible for time / cost / quality) (S&I).
• A good understanding of the application of Industrial Standards and Regulations, including production of risk assessments and application of risk mitigation (S&I).
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to work collaboratively and constructively in multidisciplinary project delivery teams (S&I).

We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business-support team explore the unknown across every field you could think of. And they turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe's largest research organisations by your side? Join us and discover what's possible.

We are offering a whole host of benefits including:

• 30 days holiday FTE (in addition to 8 bank holidays and 2.5 privilege days).

• Flexible working hours.

• An excellent defined average salary pension scheme.

• Employee shopping/travel discounts.

• Excellent learning and development opportunities.

Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/how-much-it-costs or contact [e-mail].