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Senior Mechanical Engineer
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Senior Mechanical Engineer
Employer AJP Recruitment Location Newcastle Upon Tyne Salary Competitive Closing date 25 Sep 2026
Specialist area
Mechanical engineering
Function
Engineer
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Details
Our client is a leading engineering and project services company who provide bespoke solutions across a number of marine related sectors. Due to recent projects won they now require a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join their busy North East office. The successful candidates will be responsible for the coordination, technical leadership and successful delivery of bespoke Engineering projects across a variety of markets.
The Role
- Taking ownership as the design authority and provide technical leadership of a team of Engineers in the successful delivery of projects, within the specified time, budget, to the specification and the required quality standards.
- Providing supervision to a team of Engineers including coaching, mentoring, providing direction and intervention when required.
- Ensuring that the Engineering project team clearly understand their responsibilities throughout the full project lifecycle (concept through to installation), taking ownership to make key decisions, call reviews when required and approval of design documentation within the design team.
- Promoting ownership to the Engineering team, ensuring there is a focus on delivery and commitment to hitting deadlines.
- Ensuring compliance with design practices / guidelines and provide input into continuous improvement activities.
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The Person
- Experience of working in a multi–disciplinary design environment.
- In depth knowledge and experience in design and manufacture of some or all of the following: Trenchers, Cable/Pipe lay, LARS and bespoke Onshore and Offshore equipment.
- Up to date knowledge in relevant technologies and engineering design techniques.
- Ability to provide technical guidance to the project Engineering team on a day to day basis, ensuring that Engineers have technical direction and clear project deliverables.
- Flexible and knowledgeable, ability to work across disciplines and share ideas.
- Analytical and methodical approach to problem solving with the required experience to make key decisions throughout the project (concept design through to sea trials).
- Ability to lead, delegate and support the Engineering project team in order to deliver to specification, budget and timescale.
- Ability to produce high quality work even while under pressure.
- Ability to work with minimum technical supervision.
- Good communications and presentation skills.
- In depth knowledge of Engineering design and associated techniques including basic mechanics, hand calculations, analysis packages (Ansys, Staad Pro), CAD software packages (Inventor, AutoCAD).
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