Principal Mechanical Process Engineer

Join Belcan Workforce Solutions as a Principal Mechanical Process Engineer for a leading UK construction and regeneration group. This 6-month contract role is based in Manchester, with a strong likelihood of extension. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement, requiring one day per week in the office. This role falls Inside IR35.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the mechanical lead on a large nuclear fuel reprocessing project.
• Produce mechanical engineering design deliverables, including calculations, datasheets, specifications, and schedules.
• Contribute to safety reviews and risk assessments.
• Ensure mechanical deliverables meet quality and compliance standards, project brief, and customer requirements.
• Review vendor quotations and liaise with equipment and package vendors.
• Specify, design, and evaluate the capacity of utility systems.
• Check piping design documents, including isometrics and layout drawings.
• Assist in plant layout development.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary design team members to deliver safe, efficient, and buildable solutions.

Accountabilities

• Adhere to programme schedules, fixed work-hour budgets, and tight deadlines.
• Ensure designs comply with regulatory and best practice standards for mechanical engineering.
• Liaise directly with the client and represent client professionally.
• Manage the technical workload of a mechanical team (potentially 2-4 engineers).

Requirements

Essential

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Significant experience in the nuclear sector.
• Experience in coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer Status.
• Experience in nuclear fuel reprocessing.
• Ownership, innovation, initiative, and a drive for client satisfaction.

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan