Principal / Senior Ec&I Engineer

Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for a Senior & Principal EC&I Engineer with a background in the nuclear sector to be engaged on a permanent basis in Whitehaven or Warrington with hybrid/remote working.
The Role:
You will join an existing EC&I team and be responsible for the delivery of complex design packages for key nuclear clients. You will be required to have a role in overseeing and developing current engineers and integrating with the wider disciplines within the engineering group.
The role is specific to taking a lead/Senior role on projects or be able to demonstrate that you have strong capabilities in becoming a EC&I lead that can contribute to multi-disciplinary design delivery autonomously, with minimal oversight.
Key skill sets shall include:

• Support the development of estimates for the scope of work and resources required to deliver it in order to support bids.
• Develop design solutions to agreed time, cost, and quality in accordance with project or business milestones.
• Understand the contractual and performance requirements for various systems and support the definition and associated acceptance criteria and events through design, build, integration, installation, and commissioning activities.
• Produce documentation required to support the design review process, including diagrams; technical specifications; supporting calculations; design evidence and justifications.
• Ensure design proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management.
• Ensure compliance against contractual requirements and that work is undertaken in accordance with company, safety, environmental, contractual, and local business processes, standards, procedures, and documentation.
• Review relevant supplier documentation and ensure it is captured and recorded appropriately.
• Undertake design reviews and presentations to customers.

The Individual:

• Experience of full lifecycle engineering.
• Technical report writing skills.
• Design Justification Reports.
• Technical presentations.
• Attending factory acceptance tests.

An in depth understanding of at least one of the following areas:

• Instrumentation and control system theory including PID control.
• Electrical circuits design, EMC precautions and power supply characteristics.
• Safety Integrity Levels and BS EN 61508 or 61511.
• Machinery Safety and UKCA Marking.
• PLC programming.
• Fieldbus technology (Profibus/Profinet).

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