Lead Engineer- Service Engineering
Company
Arabelle Solutions offers a broad portfolio of turbine island technologies and services that are used in more than a third of nuclear power plants globally – helping customers across the world deliver reliable power as they transition to a lower-carbon future. The Arabelle steam turbine is the most advanced of its kind and the company provides turbine island lifecycle support solutions for all nuclear reactor types – improving power output, reducing environmental footprint, and lowering operational cost. Arabelle Solutions has around 3,300 employees across 16 countries and is a subsidiary of EDF Group.
At Arabelle Solutions, we’re proud to design services and solutions that are generating power not just for today and tomorrow but for generations to come. You’ll work alongside passionate bright minds. We offer a broad range of opportunities for those eager to build tomorrow’s world. We believe a supportive culture is key to reach common goals. Diversity and an inclusive mindset makes us and our business stronger.
Position
We are currently seeking a Lead Engineer- Service Engineering to join our Core Services ITR (Enquiry to Remittance) team based in Rugby. Within this role you will play a key role in the team, dedicated to enabling the Global Business and European Region to tender and execute projects to a high quality and provide customer facing engineering support at all phases of the ITR process.
As a Lead Engineer- Service Engineering, you will be expected to work with Sales & CSLs through the tendering phase of the Inquiry to Order or Order to Remittance process, collaborate with the Global Repair Network & Sourcing to determining costs, support the outage planning and scoping of customer projects. Assure compliance with design standards/ practices/ internal processes, and be on-time in fulfilling program objectives, schedules, cost and quality requirements. You will also support projects through execution with engineering requests and dispositions.
Other Responsibilities will include;
- Provide primary support through the above tendering phases as the technical lead for the bid, including scope description, BOM, Request for Quote review, technical clarifications, technical risk identification, TRS and when appropriate provision of costing and schedule.
- Escalate issues as required acting as the liaison between the field and design engineering to drive specific technical resolution and to help engineering identify, drive corrective actions.
- Provide outage planning and RTS for the regional fleet of Steam Turbines.
- Support technology transfer into the GRS/ Field Core networks and region engineering teams.
- Provide technical guidance, both through collaboration and consultation, to less experienced engineers and to other individuals responsible for Steam Turbine service/ repairs.
- Provide guidance for development of and improvements to existing Steam Turbine maintenance, and repair processes and procedures.
- Support cost reduction, cycle reduction, and product quality enhancement projects.
- Author or contribute to the development of FSI procedures/ work instructions/ standards and design practices associated with this technology area. Highlight lessons learned and makes repair practices/ design standards changes or other appropriate changes in practices to prevent reoccurrence.
- Ensure technical risks are managed effectively to the successful delivery of the system.
Profile
Qualifications
- Degree qualified, or equivalent, in Mechanical Engineering.
- Experience of steam turbines would be ideal especially around outage planning and processes, including routine inspections, overhauls, repair activities, product knowledge and associated measurements. Although applications from individuals with Power Industry knowledge are also of interest to us.
- Experience or Understanding of Catia V5 or other 3D modelling software
- Has contributed to the solving of significant technical problems in engineering and execution processes.
- Excellent communication skills (presentations, written and verbal).
- Focused on quality, cost, on-time, and on-budget performance. Metric focused.
- Decisive problem solver with a strong customer service mindset.
Desired characteristics:
- High-energy team player with strong interpersonal skills who can liaise with a wide range of people, from operations through to senior management.
- Strong analytical thinker with process discipline.
- Creative and innovative mindset with an ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment.
- Ability to demonstrate effective project & time management skills, working with a high degree of autonomy and self-motivation.
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