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Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Defence
  • Contracting /
  • Derby
  • United Kingdom
  • 21/11/24
  • On site

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.


Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.


We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.


Drawing on more than 55 years’ experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.


To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all


Job Description

Assystem Energy & Infrastructure are recruiting for 3 Mechanical Design Engineers to work at our customers site in Derby on a contract basis.

You will be responsible for the creation of component/assembly designs and associated through-life justification that meet their requirements and product attributes of life, cost, availability, and safety margins

Role details: 

  • Job title: Mechanical Design Engineers
  • Contract length: 12 months 
  • Location: Derby  
  • Contract type: PAYE via Umbrella solution

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • To understand Product system / sub-system requirements and derive Component requirements at task level.
  • To produce robust design solutions which are insensitive to variation to address specified requirements.
  • To collaborate and communicate design solution information with task stakeholders.
  • To search for, capture, store, and re-use knowledge relating to design activity.
  • To understand and apply the commodity standards and to create new standards where none exist.
  • To liaise with manufacturing and service engineering to actively integrate the experience and knowledge from these areas.
  • To check own and others design a solutions and techniocal for completeness and correctness.
  • To manage work in accordance with project cost, timescale, and quality targets.
  • To resolve problems through evaluative judgements. Analyses factual information from multiple sources, interprets results and identifies effective solutions by applying their own technical knowledge, expertise and engineering judgement.
  • Is responsible for planning, project managing and delivering technical packages/investigations in line with programme milestones within agreed cost, timescale and quality requirements, including managing inputs from specialist areas and integrating activities to achieve the defined requirements.

My profile

  • Bachelor’s degree, Master’s or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.
  • Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.
  • An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems.
  • Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and justification.
  • Membership of a relevant professional body or working towards.
  • Experience as design engineer operating across the product life cycle, undertaking design safety justification activites supporting manufacturing, integration, maaintenance /refit activities and dealing with operational issues.
  • Experience of Research and development, nalytical and test verification activities.
  • Experience in the development of methods, standards and processes.
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**Security clearance**

This role requires the successful candidate to hold a minimum of a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance.

Due to the nature of work this role will be delivering and for the protection of certain assets, the successful candidate has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non-ITAR country.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

Are you a prospective or recent graduate?

Assystem offers you the opportunity to join our Switch to Grow UK Graduate Scheme, where you’ll gain hands on experience in engineering, digital services, and project management by working on some of the world’s most critical energy projects.

Be part of the challenge of the century; accelerating the switch to low carbon energy!

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