Join us a Principal Mechanical Engineer
📍 Location: Helensburgh
📝 Contract/Staff Position

Your Future Team 

The role involves working as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team within the Approving Authority. The primary purpose of the role is to directly support current operations and future programmes.

The team consists of Mechanical, Civil, Building Services and Electrical Engineers and are responsible for the authorship, development, assessment, and maintenance of engineering design substantiation for Client Facilities.

Your Missions

• 📑 Manage Infrastructure Design Substantiation documents.
• 🔄 Handle design changes/concessions.
• 📊 Present Design substantiations to Client safety committees.
• 📅 Develop EIMT Schedule, procedures, and results.
• 📝 Produce Periodic Review of Safety reports.
• 🗣️ Advise internal and external stakeholders.
• 🕵️‍♂️ Conduct Independent Technical Review.
• 🛠️ Apply engineering knowledge to nuclear/high-risk environments.
• 🏗️ Justify mechanical/structural design modifications.

Why join the community of Switchers?:

🔹 The Group is currently ranked Third in the world for nuclear engineering.

🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions

🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects

🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text

🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs

At Assystem, we celebrate diversity and creativity. We believe in harnessing unique perspectives to shape innovative solutions. Your skills and daring spirit are what truly matter. Join us and help shape the future! 🌟

• ✅ Produce robust technical justifications for mechanical/structural design modifications in high hazard industries.
• ✅ Apply theoretical and practical methods across the engineering lifecycle in nuclear/high-risk environments.
• ✅ Utilize a blend of general and specialist engineering knowledge to incorporate existing and emerging technologies.
• 🌡️ Experienced in high-risk environments.
• 🔍 Familiarity with safety case development techniques such as HAZID/HAZOP studies.

• 🏢 Hybrid role with occasional visits to Client site near Helensburgh and Glasgow offices.
• 🔒 Security Clearance: SC, sole UK National.
• 🎓 BEng in Mechanical or Structural engineering (or equivalent).
• 👷 Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent).
• ⚠️ Safety case related training.

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.