Senior Mechanical Engineer – Whitehaven or Warrington (Sellafield Projects)
💰 Rate: c.£50 per hour (Inside IR35)
📍 Location: Whitehaven or Warrington (with Sellafield site visits)
📅 Contract Role
The Role
Join our team delivering mechanical design solutions for Sellafield projects. Solve mechanical handling and lifting challenges, ensuring designs meet cost, schedule, and safety standards.
Key Requirements
✅ CEng/IEng status
✅ Strong mechanical design experience
✅ Skilled in BS 2573 calculations & BS 8888 drawings
✅ Knowledge of SOMSR 2008, CDM, PUWER, LOLER
✅ Excellent problem-solving & stakeholder communication
Desirable
🔹 Experience with manufacturing specs, EO packs & Technical Files
🔹 Familiar with safety case development

MEICA SIte Supervisor
Warrington
£300.00 / £400.00
6 Months
We require MEICA Site Supervisors with experience in water and/or infrastructure project delivery to support projects within the Core Projects delivery stream. The role will report to the Works Superintendent.
Individual project values will typically range between £200k – £3M. This is a site-based position, with all sites located in the North West of England (UU region).
Responsibilities:
- Supervision of site mechanical, electrical, instrument, control, and automation (MEICA) installations
- Active contribution to the production of site safety documentation related to overall site management and the MEICA package of works
- Ensuring SHE standards are continuously improved and that safe systems of work are adhered to
- Driving a positive safety culture and promoting engagement with the Subcontract delivery team(s)
- Ensuring high-quality products are produced in line with current standards and specifications
- Ensuring ITPs are in place and check sheets are completed on-site throughout the construction and commissioning phases
- Contributing to the production of appropriate records for hazardous area or safety-critical systems, e.g., COMPEX certification, tightness testing for mechanical installations
- Delivering site inductions and toolbox talks where appropriate
- Ensuring MEICA safety rules are adhered to and supporting documentation is produced in line with MSP mechanical and electrical safety rules
- Actively contributing to isolation planning and isolation management (mechanical and electrical)
- Monitoring the competency of Subcontractor site resources
- Undertaking UU “Work Authorisation Training” and acting in the capacity of UU Person Coordinating the Work (PCW) where agreed
- Overseeing the issue of permits (where required), or ensuring the implementation of UU/Subcontractor permits where necessary
- Carrying out regular MEICA safety inspections on temporary and permanent equipment
- Overseeing works within hazardous environments, including areas with biogas presence, high-pressure systems, etc.
- Overseeing on-site testing, such as cable testing, pressure testing, hydrostatic testing, software/telemetry testing, etc.
- Assisting with the compilation of handover documentation, as-built drawings, O&Ms, etc.
Required:
- HNC or higher within Mechanical or Electrical Engineering discipline
- Previous water/wastewater site experience (preferred) or familiarity with process industries
- Familiarity with WIMES and United Utilities MEICA standards (preferred)
- Experience working in hazardous environments, with knowledge of DSEAR and COMPEX requirements
- SSSTS/SMSTS qualifications
