Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Farnborough, UK Contract duration: initial contract duration until 31 Dec 2027 - renewable Start Date: ASAP

• Provide client-side technical authority and engineering governance for all Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping scopes, ensuring designs are safe, fit-for-purpose, constructible and decision-ready.
• Accountable for the technical integrity, quality, integration and maturity of Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping scopes across Feasibility Study and Execution phases.
• Enforces Group Technical Standards (GTS), Project Management Framework (PMF) and Investment Development Model (IDM) requirements, and ensures readiness for project decision gates.
• Acts with EPCM contractors and Integrated Owner Teams (consultants, experts SMEs), ensuring multidisciplinary coordination.
• Evaluated according to the P&D technical competencies and capability framework (Mental Processing, Knowledge, Technical Skills, Social Process Skills, Application)

• Responsible for engineering completeness, quality, integration, and L1 assurance of assigned project scope
• Acts as Owner’s technical authority for Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping disciplines, ensuring engineering is safe, constructible, operable, and decision ready.
• Responsible for ensuring the quality, maturity and completeness of engineering across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase of the project
• Verifies contractor engineering deliverables are fully aligned with GTS, PMF, IDM and stage-gate maturity requirements.
• Validates engineering readiness for critical decision gates (FS & execution release)
• Ensures Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping discipline inputs contributes to overall constructability, operability, safety-in-design, and sustainability principles.
• Ensure discipline, design, maturity and compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.
• Lead Owner Level 1 (L1) reviews of critical Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping engineering
• Verifies Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping deliverables meet stage completeness before recommending acceptance.
• Responsible for proper management changes, both internally and from engineering service contractors.
• Identify and ensure Mechanical, Materials Handling & Piping discipline risks are included in risk register, including operational, safety, and integration risks.
• Identify long-lead items and technical interfaces impacting construction sequence and transition plan to operations.
• Responsible for supporting the delivery of the Feasibility Study and Execute phase with the agreed schedule and budget.

• Apply SHE values and ensure Design for Safety (DFS).
• Ensure discipline compliance with legal and corporate SHE requirements.
• Ensure timely implementation of risk controls.
• Promote continuous improvement in Safety, Health and Environment

• Ability to manage complexity, integrate multidisciplinary inputs and make risk-based decisions.
• The ability to organise and process information of varying volume and complexity to solve problems and make effective decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver work at the required level of complexity.
• Leadership and teamwork capability.
• Techniques and approaches to achieve success in multidisciplinary and multi-project environments.
• Strong judgement in assessing engineering maturity prior to decision gate approvals

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) for the applicable discipline.
• Specialisation in Material Handling.
• Postgraduate specialization in Mechanical Engineering (preferred).
• Registered with a UK recognized engineering intitule as a professional / charted engineer.
• Proven track record with extensive practical experience.
• Minimum 10 years as a registered engineer.

• Experience in engineering development for mining projects.
• Knowledge of applicable international and local engineering standards.
• Knowledge of legislation related to engineering disciplines and governance.
• Knowledge of HAZID and HAZOP processes and experience of the process and or leading of design reviews.
• Experience in EPCM environments and multidisciplinary integration. Including engineering development, procurement, contract management, site support, and vendor engineering review, as a Senior Engineer or Engineering Coordinator on large-scale projects, including at least one project exceeding USD 500 million, and preferably one…