Senior Mechanical Engineer

Job reference

1281835

Location

Farnborough, United Kingdom

Sector

Process

Function

Engineering & Design

Employment type

Contract

Date published

October 14, 2026

SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Location:

Farnborough, UK

Contract duration:

initial contract duration until 31 Dec 2027 - renewable

Start Date:

ASAP

PRIMARY PURPOSE

• 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)

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

SHE FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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

CAPABILITIES REQUIRED TO DO THE ROLE

Mental Processing Ability:

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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.

Technical Knowledge:

• 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 exceeding USD 1 billion Total Installed Cost (TIC).

• Experience working in Owners Team.

• Ability to deliver value engineering, incorporating innovation and complementary disciplines (safety, environment, operations and maintenance, sustainability, and mine closure).

• Knowledge of PMI guidelines and tools, as well as Agile and Lean Construction methodologies.

• Knowledge - following appropriate training - of IDM / ICBS / PMF frameworks.

• Proficiency in project management software such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, ACONEX, and others.

• Advanced proficiency in MS Office.

• Detailed knowledge of BIM methodology and datacentric delivery principles.

• Advanced level of English.

Technical Skills:

• Agile Discipline Management with Owner-side oversight of contractor-developed engineering scope.

• Governance and assurance of engineering scopes across the Feasibility Study and Execution phase, particularly for multidisciplinary underground mining projects,

• Change Management with formal control and approval of discipline-related technical changes

• Risk Management, including ownership of discipline risk identification, technical risk evaluation, mitigation strategies, and escalation to decision gate forums.

• Schedule Management, ensuring discipline deliverables are sufficiently mature, integrated, and stable to support irreversible project decisions.

• Engineering maturity assessment and formal validation of deliverables aligned with stage-gate readiness (FS & Execution).

• Continuous improvement leadership, embedding lessons learned and best practice into design activities

Application:

• Experience and willingness to work in Mining Operations, addressing technical aspects to ensure that user requirements are met.

• The drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply the other capability elements to deliver safe, productive, and sustainable outcomes.

• Focus on Engineering Maturity: the degree to which engineering deliverables are sufficiently defined, complete, integrated, and stable to reliably support the decisions required at a specific project stage.

• Commitment to engineering maturity: ensuring deliverables are sufficiently defined, integrated and stable to support irreversible construction decisions.

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