Mechanical Engineer (Asset Management)

The person:
You must have experience working in a highly regulated environment such as, in the Nuclear Industry or on a COMAH regulated site. You must have a solid background in Mechanical Engineering and the appetite to learn and develop. You must be able to work independently and as part of a team of mixed skills and abilities, within your own field of expertise. You must have effective communication skills in order to effectively work alongside others and be highly motivated with excellent problem solving skills. You must have experience working in a plant front line working environment, whilst ensuring safety and quality remain the guiding principles. You must be comfortable proactively engaging with a wide range of stakeholders in order to deliver optimal engineering solutions.
You will have a degree within the discipline, and preferably be a Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and have a minimum of 5 years experience in an operational environment as a Mechanical Engineer in a highly regulated industry.
The role:
The role is a Asset ManagementMechanical Engineer working within the URENCO UK Engineering department to help set up, develop and implement an Asset Management programme to help UUK improve the way we manage our existing enrichment and infrastructure assets. The role is help deliver safe, legally compliant, reliable and efficient operational performance over the lifetime of the assets. The role is to ensure compliance with all relevant statutory regulatory and insurance obligations and any other activities which achieve good safety performance, asset technical integrity, environmental compliance and quality. The role will include measuring the effectiveness of the existing framework and implementing a new Asset Management system in line with ISO 55000 within enrichment to reduce engineering risk on the site and ensure continual improvement of managing asset risk. The role is an assurance role to ensure asset integrity is maintained in order to meet requirements to ensure process safety, HSE and ONR compliance.
The candidate will be expected to work cross functionally across a number of operations, engineering and maintenance teams, must be self-motivated and able to operate at a strategic and closer detail level.
The role holder will be expected to preferably demonstrate skills and experience in the following areas:
• Familiarity with Asset Management processes and systems, for example ISO 55000 or other engineering Asset Management systems
• Implementation of engineering risk based management systems and maintenance processes
• Experience of working with CMMS systems and preventative maintenance schedules ideally SAP
• Understanding of Nuclear/COMAH safety cases and their statutory requirements for maintenance schedules
• Operational experience in a plant engineering environment working closely alongside maintenance and operations
• Familiarity with national and international standards and legislation and their implementation into an operational environment eg PSSR, LOLER, ASME
• Ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of industry best practises and work to established standards and current legislation
• Experience of PSSR Written schemes of examination and Risk Based Inspection Techniques
• Experience of Change Control principles in a regulated environment
• Advantageous to understand reliability principles such as FMEA or RCM, Root cause analysis, condition monitoring
• Advantageous to have worked with obsolescence management, BOMS, material masters, spares criticality reviews
• Familiarity with operational plant asset life plans
• Good configuration control understanding including GA, P&IDs, isometrics etc