Full-Time Principal Design Engineer

Your future team:As a Principal Design Engineer within the Client's core engineering team, you will take on a leading role in overseeing and ensuring the technical integrity and engineering direction of multiple projects.

Your missions:

• Manage engineering processes, ensuring all requirements are captured, understood, and integrated with stakeholders.
• Offer technical expertise across project and programme-wide engineering issues.
• Ensure projects are established with appropriate engineering management frameworks and followed consistently.
• Facilitate requirement capture and management from stakeholders, integrating into design and delivery.
• Provide high-level engineering support to project teams, resolving technical challenges and upholding engineering principles.
• Contribute to the wider technical and engineering assurance, ensuring design solutions are safe, compliant, and deliverable.
• Quickly identify root causes of engineering challenges and implement solutions.
• Maintain understanding of Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) and Nuclear Safety.

Why join the community of Switchers?

Assystem offers a competitive benefits package.

• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• 8% company pension contributions
• Healthcare cash-plan
• Employee assistance programme

Qualifications/Skills:

• Degree qualified in a core engineering discipline
• Chartered Engineer status
• Proven experience in delivering projects using structured design processes, aligned with the RIBA 4 stages of work.
• Extensive experience in managing complex engineering and construction projects.
• Ability to distil complex engineering challenges and provide practical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills
• In-depth understanding of CDM regulations and Nuclear Safety requirements

Security:

Sole UK national with BPSS or ideally SC security clearance.

Working pattern:

Able to be based from home with an expectation to attend Client site in Plymouth once every 3-4 weeks for 2-3 days at a time.

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