Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer – Asset Management

Base Location – Renfrew

Altrad Babcock is partner to the leading lights of the energy sector, bringing our innovation and expertise to the industry’s greatest challenges. We deliver projects that enrich lives around the world. That’s why we’re investing so much in innovation, ensuring we have the very latest tools, technology and techniques at our disposal. But the most important investment we can make is in talent, because when people like you join our team in a role like this, the business can only continue to be seen as experts within the field.

The Project Engineering team within our Asset Management business area provides support services to the Nuclear, Process, Power Generation and Oil & Gas sectors across their whole asset lifecycle. Within this team we have an opportunity for a Senior Project Engineer to join us in Renfrew. You would work as part of the team providing a wide range of expertise across the group as well as undertaking work across the wider Asset Management business.

Main duties within this role:

• Project manage and/or lead engineering projects
• Preparation of tenders, responsible for estimation of scopes at each stage of a project lifecycle, and identification of client needs
• Development of supply chain partners for complex projects
• Prepare and manage project schedules, resource plans and period project reports
• Provide technical support to Asset Management Contracts
• Write reports, specifications and supporting technical documents
• Clients primary focal point for allocated projects from kick-off to close-out
• Responsible for the safe delivery of projects to budget and schedule
• Responsible for specifying and delivering the quality assurance requirements of projects
• Ensure good communication between engineering disciplines and all project stakeholders
• Manage project changes effectively
• Ensure an effective risk management process is adopted
• Good stakeholder management and client interfacing skills
• Development of relationships with internal and external customers and organisations

Occasional site based work will form a part of this role as the Senior Project Engineer, you will take responsibility for ensuring delivery of all the engineering, procurement, manufacturing, fabrication and commissioning activities for the life cycle of the contract or work package in accordance with the overall Project schedule. You will ensure planning and delivery is in accordance with all safety, quality, time and cost parameters to meet the needs of the Project. Ideally you will be able to integrate all of the various engineering disciplines, developing an understanding across the project and working closely across the Asset Management and wider Altrad Babcock business.

Your projects will require:

• Design Coordination – Coordinating design inputs from both in-house and external design contractors’ responsible pro-actively identifying design issues, managing design development.
• Procurement Assistance – Input to procurement process, including technical specification development, tender reviews, preparing purchase requisitions, cost and schedule monitoring, workshop inspections and expediting.
• Fabrication Monitoring - coordination of interfaces with fabricators, inspecting equipment deliveries, management of fabrication processes, managing inspection and test plans, monitoring and reporting progress.
• Project management skills to direct a project team. Apply controls for internal budget monitoring and overall project margin protection and improvement. Manage communications, and change with the client relationship.

Our new Senior Project Engineer will hold a relevant Engineering degree and possibly a MEng (or working towards one) alongside practical hands on experience in a breadth of relevant industries, ideally including experience in Nuclear Fusion projects. APMP formal project management qualification preferred but not essential.

If you think you have the experience and qualifications needed for this role and you are keen to take up a new and exciting challenge, please apply online now. A more detailed job description can be sent on request.