Description
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Position Description
- Provides Mechanical engineering judgement and guidance to the Chief Engineers department to enable decisions with respect to safety and longevity of infrastructure.
- Applies a breadth of knowledge, skills and experience of Mechanical engineering and company approaches, techniques and governance.
- Applies experience to design & develop solutions, resolve engineering issues and problems for waterfront asset infrastructure at the Naval Base
- Carries out and advises on Mechanical surveys and assessments reporting overall condition and developing recommendations for defects and design improvements.
Core Duties
- Undertake Mechanical appraisals and inspections to provide direction with regards the future of the Naval Base infrastructure
- Undertake engineering feasibility assessments, vetting and approving preliminary and final designs with justification for decision[s]
- Assist project teams to ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget and to the required quality.
- Prepare requirement specifications, oversee and manage the work of consultants, including checking their production information.
- Lead and assess Design Reviews and other peer review meetings as required.
- Contribute to team planning, risk management, Quality and SHE to support the effective functioning of the Engineering Team.
- Establish and maintain relations with Waterfront Survey and Operations and Maintenance teams.
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement developing skills which improve and enhance the business capability.
- Manage and deliver the maintenance and development of engineering processes.
- Maintain and improve expertise and knowledge over a wide range of work areas with particular expertise in Mechanical Engineering.
- Document engineering decisions providing governance over engineering issues relevant to their discipline.
Functional Knowledge
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Incorporated Engineer (I.Mech.E.) or equivalent experience
- IOSH Managing Safely, knowledge of PUWER, LOLER and Safe systems of work for high risk operations.
- Technical Understanding and knowledge of the operation of the Mechanical Waterfront assets with respect to support to ships.
- Knowledge of safe systems of work of lifting operations and able to comment on Lift plans.
- Understanding the Technical issues with operating and maintaining Waterfront assets in a Maritime environment
- Auditing and incident investigation skills.
- Preparation of reports, repair schedules, communicates using Windows, MS Word, Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
- Knowledge and experience in the use of AutoCAD software.
AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.