Senior Mechanical Engineer in UK

BOSS Energy Consulting LTD – Senior Mechanical Engineer

BOSS Energy have been retained by a leading Clean Technology company who have an opening for a Senior Mechanical Engineer. You will be responsible for contributing, guiding, reviewing and developing safe mechanical designs internally and with external contractors across numerous projects. You will have the part to join our transition from an early-stage R&D startup into a product offering, revenue-generating company poised to rapidly scale our direct-air capture technology across the world.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing, guiding, reviewing and developing safe electro-mechanical designs internally and with external contractors across numerous projects from 50 te/year research units to 5,000 te/year scale up projects and beyond.
• Specification, delegation, delivery and review of all required mechanical, electrical, and relevant interdisciplinary design deliverables.
• Working closely with key external vendors for mechanical and electrical packages, especially fabricators and site hosts.
• Support the project management team in technical delivery of detailed plant design and analysis for pilot and commercial systems, especially in respect of mechanical and electrical requirements including packaging philosophy and in the interfaces between contractor team engineering disciplines.
• Applying fundamental engineering knowledge to ensure suitable vendor boundaries are defined with the opportunity to optimise plant and product performance as we scale rapidly in the DAC space.
• Working closely at the mechanical-electrical-control interface, developing, broadening and consolidating control engineering capacity across the company.

What we need from you:

• 5 years minimum industrial experience delivering projects with significant mechanical or electrical design content across multiple industries.
• MEng Engineering Degree with Mechanical and/or Electrical focus or suitable discipline.
• Experience and understanding of the full machine/product development cycle (Conceptualisation, design, delivery/commissioning and decommissioning),
• Ability to use 3D CAD Modelling Software with a PLM system, (SOLIDWORKS & 3DEXPERIENCE preferred)
• Evidenced strong practical skills, comfortable with both hands-on work and desk-based tasks. Comfortable working with ambiguity.
• Understanding of mechanical packaging philosophy and procurement.
• Ability to design and critically evaluate GAs (General Arrangement Drawings), 3D models, P&IDs for vendor scope splits on paper and live plant scales especially from electrical and mechanical perspective.