Jackson Hogg are delighted to be supporting a leading supplier of maritime technology based in Newcastle, who are seeking to appoint a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer within their Offshore Energy Product group. This role is full-time and permanent, and the successful candidate will be responsible for the coordination and successful delivery of bespoke Engineering projects across a variety of markets including pipelay, handling systems, subsea technology and defence equipment.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the technical lead of a team of engineers and take ownership of design authority to ensure successful delivery of projects, within a specified time frame and budget to specification and quality standards.
• Supervise, coach, mentor and provide support to a team of Engineers when required.
• Ensure the team clearly understand their responsibilities throughout the full project lifecycle from concept through to installation, making key decisions, approving and reviewing deign documentation with the design team.
• Ensure compliance with design practices/guidelines, providing input to continuous improvement activities.

Requirements:

• Experienced working in a multi-discipline design environment and able to share ideas within the team.
• In depth knowledge and experience in design and manufacture of some, or all the following: Cable/Pipe lay, Trenchers, and bespoke Onshore and Offshore equipment.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to the project Engineering team day-to-day. Ensuring that Engineers have clear project deliverables and technical direction.
• Relevant, and up-to-date knowledge of technologies and engineering design techniques.
• Analytical and methodical approach to problem solving with experience of making key decisions throughout the project from concept design through the sea trials).
• Ability to lead, delegate and support the engineering project team to deliver specification, budget and timescale.
• Able to produce high quality work under pressure.
• In depth knowledge of Engineering design and associated techniques including basic mechanics, hand calculations, analysis packages (Ansys, Staad Pro), CAD software packaged (Inventor, AutoCAD).

If this is an opportunity you are interested in, please apply online or speak to Lily Campbell Hewson at Jackson Hogg.