Facility Engineer

This contract with our defence client is for a Facility Engineer for 18 months in Aldermaston – 3 days/week on site.  

Despite working conditions and location agreed above, the successful candidate will need to attend site for their induction and kit retrieval. There will also be a requirement for all candidates to attend site for a medical appointment.  

Key Accountabilities:  

- Deliver professional engineering services to enable the Principal Asset Engineer in fulfilment of the strategy for the upkeep of all assets and equipment the client needs in order to deliver the Programme.  

- Demonstration of safe, effective and ethical working behaviours.  

- Adherence to management system requirements for engineering activities.  

- Delivery of engineering tasks to schedule, budget and quality requirements.  

- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.  

- Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.  

Key Responsibilities:  

- Apply domain and technical knowledge for design intent, as-built standards and system performance through life for engineered systems and structures.  

- Interpret and deliver the requirements of issued tasks from the Asset Engineering Solutions order book (including troubleshooting, quoting, reporting, design, commissioning and handover as required), and make evidence based professional engineering decisions to solve technical problems within area of responsibility.  

- Identify and escalate business risk arising from condition of engineered systems and structures.  

- Demonstrate adherence to management system requirements and relevant technical standards.  

- Engage with company delivery and administrative requirements; report own and team progress honestly and clearly, communicate in an engaging manner, support performance management.  

- Optimise the delivery of Operations Engineering.  

Key part of role:  

• Safety Cases  

• Documents covering risk assessment for a facility. Figure out what to do to make it better.  

• Nuclear background may have something similar; safety reviews, hazardous reviews

Top 3 Evaluation Criteria  

1) Safety Cases  

2) Engineering background  

3) Nuclear experience  

Minimum Requirement:  

• HNC with suitable additional experience to Incorporated Engineer equivalent level.  

• Membership of an engineering institution.  

• A ‘doer’ rather than a manager  

• Understand what a safety case is.  

• Safety case is a key phrase. Equivalents from other companies may be safety reviews, risk management on hazardous situations.  

• Good screening question “What’s your safety case experience”.  

• Engineering background  

• Nuclear background/experience highly desirable  

• RAF/Defence background may provide transferable skills.  

• Technical rather than management bias  

• Maintenance experience  

• Shortfall fixes/breakdown assessments  

• On call breakdown checks  

• Substantiation  

• Compliance assessments  

• there is no preference regarding their field of engineering. Mechanical, electrical, C&I, Civil, all ok, they are looking across all fields, as long as there is an engineering background.