Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for a Packaging Design Engineer to join its busy team, flexible working across the NWS estate.
As an engineering manager / packaging design engineer, you will be responsible for developing and or supporting the engineering strategy within discipline in a system engineering approach for the development of safe solutions in specified areas of expertise across our programmes.
This includes supporting the coordination coordinating input from the wider engineering function into the GDF programme both across the organisation and within our supply chain.
Direct report to Packaging Design Authority / Lead for Packaging Engineering.
- Intelligent Client / Intelligent Customer for engineering design services.
- Delegated Design Authority / Technical Authority for appropriate aspects of design and management of supply change interface.
- Technical authority within area of responsibility and SQEP.
- Systems engineering approach to deliver development of safe engineered solutions from the supply chain.
- Provide professional and / or mentoring support to the Engineering Managers and peers within your knowledge base.
- Strategy, risk management and programme development.
- Delegate for Lead Engineer as appropriate.
Essential
- Aligned to organisational values and behaviours of action-orientated, ambitious, integrity, collaborative and inclusive.
- Good first degree in relevant subject or equivalent qualification.
- Chartered membership or fellowship status of relevant professional institution.
- Demonstrated ability to represent business in regulatory, commercial, professional and stakeholder environments.
- Engineering experience in a field of relevance to our Programmes.
Desirable
- Practitioner within own engineering discipline.
- Experience of systems engineering and management of contracts for safety integrated engineering design development.
- Understanding of aspects relevant to development of a containers and packages for transport and disposal.
- Experience of the client to supply chain relationship and understanding of the Intelligent Customer role.
- Experience in developing a scope of works and undertaking the specification, management, and oversight of contracts for design.
- Project / programme management experience with respect to technical direction integration ad control, including risk and opportunity management.
- Experience of design phases of engineering projects is essential, such as front-end engineering design, concept design, design strategy development or similar.
- Experience in one or more high-hazard industries.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary engineering management, with sufficient cross-discipline awareness to provide direction and coordination.
We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. We are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.
In promoting equal opportunities, we welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of disabled candidates who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.