Lead Mechanical Engineer - Production Systems

About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community?

At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.

You can be part of our vision!

Working Pattern: Permanent/ Full Time

As the Lead Engineer, you will:

• Act as the discipline focal point providing support across the business and client streams in Hydrogen, Decarbonisation, Oil and Gas, and Renewables.
• Execute engineering activities (Concept, Front End Engineering Design, Technical Study & Detailed Design).
• Assess the effectiveness of working practices and systems with a view to continuously improving systems, personal and team performance.
• Carry out work in accordance with PD&MS and project Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality systems.
• Prepare estimates and schedules and assist in their review.
• Provide technical assistance to junior team members as and when required.

The role offers:

• Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your technical department, to be appreciated, to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed.
• Varied workload: you’ll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the fully energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies.
• Opportunities for transferable skills: if your experience isn’t traditional oil & gas, we still want to hear from you! If you’ve EPC experience in nuclear, rail, utilities, petro-chemical, renewables, marine, and pharmaceuticals then please apply.
• Salary: Competitive Salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
• Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Location: Aberdeen or Glasgow – hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

About You

You’ll have experience of:

• Leading a team of engineers and coordinating work tasks to achieve required plan dates or be a senior/principal engineer looking for a step up in their career.
• Managing team budgets, producing scope estimates, and recognizing and controlling scope change.
• Performing studies, equipment selection reviews, specification, technical bid evaluations, and package management of equipment packages in an EPC environment or client role is highly preferred.
• Static, package or rotating equipment is essential. Typical equipment to be experienced within the role include: pumps, heat exchangers, power generation, gas compression, vessels, tanks, chemical injection, pig traps, cranes, mechanical handling equipment and process conditioning packages.
• Offshore and onshore gas business but similar transferable industry skills will also be considered in lieu of specific O&G experience.
• Having offshore BOSIET, MIST, and medical are preferred for the role with experience of site surveys for condition assessments, commissioning assistance, or dimensional and utility interface reviews.
• Flexible working attitude to deal with an environment that operates 24hrs/day 365 days/year is essential.
• CE/ATEX and UKCA certification of equipment is essential.
• Technically competent in own discipline and actively maintains own competence according to standards and pursues continuous professional development.
• Producing, checking, and approving deliverables that conform to all applicable industry engineering codes and standards as well as the client’s policies and procedures relative to the equipment being specified.
• Specifying mechanical package equipment, evaluating, selecting, and procuring replacement and/or upgrades to equipment.
• Producing mechanical equipment purchase specifications, datasheets, SDRLs, and Technical Bid Evaluations.
• Liaising closely with other disciplines to ensure all equipment requirements are addressed in the design, specification of equipment, construction sequencing, and commissioning.
• Experience participating in safety studies such as: HAZOP, HAZID, and design safety reviews.
• Providing value-adding knowledge to constructability reviews and taking consideration of layout restrictions, ergonomics, safety, utilities, and maintainability.
• Equipment vendor coordinating and Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT’s) is essential for the role along with an understanding of quality control requirements in line with the inspection and test plan.
• Understanding and ability to interpret system Process and Instrument Diagrams, fabrication drawings, and schematics is essential.
• Coordinating and controlling vendor document submissions and reviews.
• Generating, checking, and approving calculations against design codes and best practice.
• IT Packages such as Finglow, PV Elite, HTRI would be an advantage, but not essential. Knowledge of Microsoft packages and Mathcad is essential.

Personal attributes

• Go the extra mile
• Empower our people
• Never get complacent
• Engage our partners
• Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit.

Qualifications

• BSc or equivalent in relevant Engineering Discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status preferred.
• Significant, demonstrable experience in Detailed Design Engineering and Engineering Checking.
• Detailed understanding of all Engineering disciplines.
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant Oil & Gas Industry Codes and Standards.
• Understanding the application of Autodesk Design products.
• Competent in the use of MS Office applications.
• Survival BOSIET/FOET with CA-EBS & MIST (advantageous).

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002. Our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables, and nuclear sectors.

Be who you’re meant to be, with PD&MS

We firmly believe in a work culture in which: individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they’re part of our team and their voices will be heard. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.

We’re energized by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow, and far into the future. But we’re also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable, and sustainable ways.