Mechanical Engineer Wokingham, England
Job description
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
Critical Mission Solutions
Your mission is our mission.
We're invested in you and your success. Everything we do - whether Aerospace, Defense, Intelligence, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Nuclear, Automotive, or Telecommunications - is more than just a project. It's our challenge as human beings, too. That's why we bring a thoughtful and collaborative approach to every one of our partnerships.
It's our promise to challenge the status quo as we redefine how to solve the world's greatest challenges and transform big ideas into intelligent solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.
Design your career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed –today and into tomorrow.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Assist the Engineering Manager / Responsible Engineer in managing cross discipline interfaces.
- Ensuring adequate interfacing between other technical discipline.
- Ensure the design meets the operational / design requirements, and any Safety Functional Requirements.
- Ensure a H&S risk assessment is carried out as required under the CDM regulations.
- Prepare and control Development Specifications and associated documents.
- Check, verify and approve engineering documents in line with the technical and quality plan.
- Specify all installation, inspection, test and commissioning requirements for all relevant equipment specified in the design.
- Produce substantiation documentation to demonstrate all operational and functional safety requirements have been met by the design.
- Carry out site surveys of mechanical plant and equipment and document the results.
- Provide input to design documents, detailed equipment specifications / proposals and production of technical specifications to define quality levels.
- Quality control of design and documentation.
- Hazard and operability studies (HAZOP).
- Ensure all technical documents and data are prepared and structured in accordance with relevant procedures.
- Design change management.
HNC, HND or Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or a Professionally Registered Mechanical Engineer.
- Membership of an appropriate Institute.
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry.
- Previous experience as part of a dedicated or multi-discipline design team.
- Installation, test and commissioning experience would be advantageous.
- Committed to Continuous Professional Development.
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Must be a sole UK national.
- Must be at able to achieve SC/DV clearance.
Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here.
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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