Senior Mechanical / Piping Engineer

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Job Description

Here at DNV, what we do matters. The work we do every day from our full-scale fire and explosion test site at Spadeadam, Cumbria, is at the heart of the global Energy Transition to a more decarbonised and secure world.

The projects our world-renowned Major Hazards Research and Testing team undertake, helps the energy, counter terrorism and security sectors innovate with new technologies, and our findings help inform, guide and advise industry, ensuring it continues to enhance its ability to protect people, property and our environment. This is our shared purpose and one our people are proud to be part of.

Situated on the Cumbrian side of the border with Northumberland, Spadeadam provides the opportunity to live and work in a truly unique and beautiful area of the UK - you can choose to live rurally in the myriad of local villages and market towns, or in the cities of Carlisle or Newcastle, both within striking distance of the Northumberland and Lake District National Parks. Two coastlines are available to explore along with the World Heritage Site of Hadrian's Wall.

Our Opportunity:

We have exciting, rare opportunities for talented and motivated Senior Piping/Pipeline Engineers to join our growing team at our world-renowned Spadeadam research and test site in Cumbria. As a Chartered Engineer (or working towards), you will lead/work alongside our team of scientists and engineers, who carry out full-scale major hazard testing and research, involving liquid and gaseous fuel releases on behalf of our clients.

As a senior specialist on our Piping Engineering projects, your role will be a varied one, combining your operational delivery, project, and people management skills, to ensure a quality service is delivered to our customers at all times. You will also support the ongoing development of less experienced members of our team and identification of further opportunities for service improvement.

You'll be responsible for:

• Delivering the full project lifecycle for mechanical/piping engineering services to meet DNV's, our customer's and applicable statutory and regulatory specifications
• Initiate, manage and where required supervise engineering project requirements, providing technical advice and support to assist the development of less experienced members of the team
• Ensuring project scope is clear, outlining requirements to wider team, assigning appropriate tasks and supervising progress, ensuring issues/changes are agreed with and communicated to customers and wider project stakeholders
• Assisting and advising during procurement, construction and commissioning activities, including writing requisitions and conducting technical bid evaluations
• Providing timely and effective communication with the engineering team and wider project stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, including to our customers
• Working closing with our Project Management team to ensure the commercial aspects of projects from conception through to completion are achieved

As we said, this is no normal role! You will be stretched but always supported and have the opportunity to be involved in some of the most defining energy transition projects in our industry.

Responsibilities

We value all our people and the contribution they make to our business, so it's important that our rewards make us all feel valued here. That's why we recognise individual needs and offer a flexible reward and benefits package, allowing you to choose the things that matter to you, including;

• Fantastic career progression opportunities, with the resources to support your development, and the freedom to satisfy your curiosity and desire to learn
• Discretionary company profit share scheme
• Lifestyle benefits: 26 days annual leave + bank holidays, opportunity for up to 10 days unpaid leave, sabbatical leave, flexible working options
• Wellbeing benefits: (inc Private Medical and Dental Insurance, Health Assessments, Gym allowance). Company contribution towards eye tests and glasses (for computer/laptop users), and Flu Vaccinations. Also, our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provides free and confidential support for issues including work, family, relationships, money and health and we provide free fruit in our offices.
• Financial Benefits: including a Pension Scheme with employer pension contributions up to 9%, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Travel benefits: Season Ticket Loan, Cycle to Work Scheme, Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme (for personal use)
• Re-imbursement of relevant Professional Membership Fees (up to £570)
• Access to employee retail discount site for high street and on-line shopping

As many people who join us at Spadeadam need to move to be closer to our location, we provide bespoke support to help you both relocate and settle into the local area.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

Qualifications

Here at DNV we try to keep our mandatory requirements to a minimum, recognising the value that a variety of experience and backgrounds can bring. Along with your natural curiosity and passion for our industry, there are however a few things which are essential to be considered for this opportunity:

• A Mechanical engineering degree and ideally Chartered or working towards Chartered Engineer status
• Significant technical and practical engineering skills and experience in the energy industry including experience in working in multi-disciplinary projects and teams
• Demonstrable knowledge of the fundamental requirements of mechanical/piping engineering, including:
  • Equipment layout
  • Design of pump and piping systems
  • Fluid system analysis and design
  • Pipe stress analysis
  • Reading and interpreting drawings, including general mechanical, piping and P&ID drawings
• Adaptable and responsive with ability to proactively work across multiple projects simultaneously to challenging deadlines, maintaining high performance without compromising on quality or accuracy
• Excellent communicator to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders (including customers) with the ability to write clear and concise reports, robustly analyse data and present complex solutions and ideas
• A valid UK Driving Licence (as our site is not accessible by public transport)

Due to the specific nature of our site, you must be able to obtain and maintain a UK Security Clearance (application for clearance will be assisted by DNV).

About Us

About Energy Systems

We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.