Senior Project Engineer

EDF Energy Limited; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days’ annual leave

Private medical insurance

Pension contributions

Income protection insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

EDF Energy Limited in Portishead, Bristol, is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to lead engineering solutions for heavy lift and marine operations. You will manage drawings, calculations, and risk assessments, while mentoring engineers and liaising with clients and site teams.

The role combines office and on-site delivery with governance and standards oversight. The ideal candidate holds a Masters or engineering degree with proven heavy lift project delivery experience.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in an engineering discipline.
• 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 for heavy lift and transport.

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.
• 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.
• Act as a primary technical interface for clients and site teams, leading meetings and site visits.
• Develop and approve engineering statements, selecting methodologies addressing complex lifting and transport challenges.
• Uphold technical standards and governance, ensuring consistency and high-quality document control across the project lifecycle.

Skills

Leadership

Heavy lift

Client-facing

AutoCAD

MathCAD

Education

Masters

Engineering degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

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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.
We are seeking an experienced and driven Senior Project Engineer to lead the development and delivery of engineering solutions across complex heavy lift and transportation projects. Reporting directly to the Technical Director, this role is responsible for producing and overseeing technical solutions, designs and engineering associated with onsite lifting operations, transportation, load-out, marine transport and load-in activities. This role will also be responsible for leadership, management and mentorship for Project Engineers and Graduate Engineers, supporting their technical development and ensuring high standards of delivery.

Location - Portishead, Bristol
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.