Piping & Mechanical Department Head – TRIS
 
Key location: Warrington
 
Background
TÜV Rheinland is a leading provider of technical services worldwide. We provide a broad range of testing, inspection and certification services to ensure the safety, reliability and regulatory compliance of engineering assets throughout their lifecycle. If you contribute your experience to us in the future, you will experience a surprisingly broad spectrum of national and international challenges, all of which are associated with safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
 
As part of the TUV family Risktec Resourcing have been tasked to assist our sister company TUV Rheinland Industrial Services (TRIS) formerly ABB’s UK technical engineering consultancy to source a Piping & Mechanical Department Head on a permanent basis in there Warrington, UK Office.

Role Description
The suitable person must be a graduate mechanical engineer (prefferably chartered) with a min 10 years experience managing design teams. The Piping & Mechanical Department Head must also be conversant with stress analysis (but does not need to be an expert), 2D/3D modelling (Autocad, plant 3D, E3D,), design verification processes and will be the approval authority for all piping and mechanical design packages.
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead the Mechanical & Piping Engineering Team
• Supervise and allocate work to engineers and designers
• Prepare scopes of work and estimates to support proposals
• Deliver the engineering design scope to budgets and programmes
• Co-ordinate/liaise with other Engineering disciplines/client/package vendors
• Design authority for all piping and mechanical design packages
• Prepare, check and/or approve design calculations, specifications, data sheets, reports, scope of work and drawings to British/International Standards and Codes of Practice
• Monitor work for compliance to applicable codes, accepted engineering practices and client standards
• Provide specialist design input to 3D models
• Prepare Technical Analysis of proposals provided by equipment manufacturers and contractors
• Interpret vendor and other discipline drawings/information
• Attend and participate in safety reviews, risk reviews, planning reviews, model reviews and constructability reviews
• Identify and raise scope changes
• Comply with Company Quality Manager Systems
• Other professional duties as reasonably required

 
Key skills required:

• Background in Heavy Engineering/Chemical/Petrochemical/Oil & Gas Industries preferred
• Rxperience in management of mechanical & piping design teams
• University degree in Mechanical Engineering (Chartered status preferred)
• English – written, spoken and technical
• Other languages beneficial but not essential
• Ability to convert data sheets or technical communications into Engineering Documents
• Experience or knowledge of pipework stress analysis
• Ability to read drawings from other Engineering disciplines
• Ability to design/work to International Standards and Codes of Practice
• Ability to Liaise/co-ordinate work with other disciplines
• Awareness of Quality Management System philosophy
• Demonstrated expertise in mechanical design, piping layout, stress analysis, and materials selection
• Experience (minimum 8-10 years) in mechanical and piping engineering within the EPCm, sector including oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical industries
• Proficiency in industry codes and standards, such as ASME, API, and ANSI
• Deep knowledge of AutoCAD, Plant 3D, PDMS (Aveva E3D)
• Sound knowledge of M&P engineering and design, whilst also having a sound knowledge of the other disciplines (Instrumentation, Civil / Structural, and Process)
• Experience of leading design verification processes

 
Our Offer

• Standard hours Monday to Friday 40 hours per week
• Excellent Health Insurance
• Life insurance
• Group Income Protection
• Pension
• 25 days holiday
• Permanent full-time position, office, client site, and home based – hybrid working
• Accredited training to internationally recognised engineering appointment
• Company car or Car allowance
• Opportunities to work in many sectors of UK industry