Principle Mechanical Design Engineer

Job content

Who We Are

JFN is an innovative and fast-growing organisation, with our highly skilled teams and long standing heritage enabling us to deliver solutions to the most demanding operational and technical challenges faced by our Customers.

JFN deploys its specialised capabilities into markets demanding the highest standard of quality and reliability to ensure safe operations in hazardous environments. We offer turnkey solutions including multidiscipline engineering design, manufacture, testing, installation and commissioning, with projects ranging from small single objective tasks to large scale multidiscipline projects.

If you want to help us remain at the forefront of the industries in which we serve and expand our capabilities to support the developing requirements of our Customers apply today.

About The Role

The Principle Mechanical Designer Engineer is a design engineer with responsibility for undertaking or complying with the following:

• Technically Responsible Person Role
• Design Tasks
• Project Management Interaction
• Technical & Leadership Mentoring
• Tendering Tasks
• Engineering Productivity, Quality & Improvement
• Health & Safety
  

Technically Responsible Person Role

For a specific project or projects;

• Be accountable for the technical management and delivery within time cost and quality
• Maintain technical compliance with the contract and resolve technical conflicts where possible
• Ensure cross discipline integration
• Assist the project management staff in: Understanding the technical delivery such that they may manage budget / expenditure informationReviewing progress and the critical pathIdentify and minimise JFN exposure to riskIdentify and report change
• Promote cohesion across the project team
  

Design Tasks
Carrying out design tasks to meet the time, cost and quality requirements of projects:

• Scheme design deliverables
• Detail design deliverables
• Production of manufacturing documentation
• Take part in client meetings, testing / commissioning activities and post project review meetings
• Maintaining the project’s working folder
• Checking and approving
  

Project Management Interaction

Interact with project management staff to achieve the best outcome for the projects;

• Agree remaining work durations
• Highlight (at the earliest opportunity) when a task will not be completed to a previously agreed timescale
• Identify and report change
  

Technical & Leadership Mentoring

Act as mentor to a number of engineering staff to;

• Develop their technical knowledge and understanding
• Develop their leadership abilities
• Provide support in achieving developmental goals
• Encourage staff to develop their personal competencies
  

Tendering Tasks

This may include but not be limited to;

• Production of concept designs
• Estimating durations for design of tender items
• Composing technical responses to quotation requests
  

Engineering Productivity, Quality & Improvement

• Ongoing assessment of engineering processes and procedures to identify and implement improvements
• Promoting adherence to JFN Engineering processes and procedures to support consistency and quality of engineering work
• Promote compliance with both client and statutory requirements
• Implementation of continual improvement initiatives
• Promoting a close working relationship with other departments, especially Planning and Manufacturing to ensure Engineering
  

Health & Safety

Complying with JFN’s health and safety policies and procedures, with particular emphasis on;

• Take reasonable care for own health and safety and the health and safety of others
• Report all accidents and near misses to their Line Manager or Safety Representative
• Not operate any equipment they have not been specifically trained to use
  

Skills/Experience Required

• Has been accountable for a variety of diverse projects or activities ranging in both size and complexity
• Strong technical aptitude
• Sound appreciation of manufacturing, assembly and test techniques
• A very high level of commercial awareness
• Strong technical leadership, decision making and communication skills
• Proven record of technically leading teams, shaping the outcome of projects and assisting others in the delivery of projects
• Sufficient technical knowledge and understanding of the industry
• Ability to manage his / her own workload and self-manage to deliver tasks
• Prioritise decisions on work
• Ability to read, understand and shape new procedures and standards
• Proficiency in the production of standard design deliverables expected
• Experienced user of relevant design tools, techniques and methods
• Conversant with legislation and regulations applicable to their role and the projects they are working on
• Degree / HND / Higher Apprenticeship in a related discipline
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  

Contract Type - Permanent / full-time

• Preston, North West
  

James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.