Mechanical Engineer at Amec Foster Wheeler

Job description

Amec Foster Wheeler is currently recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer with experience in the mining and minerals industry. Responsibilities will include:

• Produce designs in accordance with project, discipline, statutory regulations, good practice and company procedural requirements
• Prepare technical specifications, calculations, reports, design criteria and other documents as required by the project / study
• Ensure design is completed within design man-hour and procurement budgets
• Ensure designs produced are optimal in terms of maintainability, serviceability, equipment operating cost and safe operation
• Ensure design engineering standards are maintained and adhered to on all projects
• Provide technical design guidance to Project staff on various aspects of design
• Review equipment and installation contract tenders and produce technical adjudications / recommendations
• Review and comment on design documents and drawings from own discipline from own and other disciplines
• Review and approve vendor documentation for compliance with project / study specifications
• Attend factory acceptance tests and provide input to vendor's test documentation
• Assist with plant installation and commissioning
• Liaise with client to ensure that design is in accordance with agreed requirements including liaise with Site construction staff on resolution of engineering design issues
• Provide timely reports regarding all discussions held and progress made
• Input into progress reports, including listing achievements and highlighting issues as required
• Work closely with other consultants and other disciplines and Project / Study Managers to ensure that client's objectives are met in a timely manner

Skills / Qualifications

• BSc, BEng or B.Tech or National Diploma with a minimum of 5 years' experience
• ECSA registered or eligible for registration
• Minimum of 5 years Mechanical design experience in the mining and minerals processing area in the design office and the field
• Well-developed computer skills and knowledge of word, databases spreadsheets and discipline related application software
• Technical Competence - in terms of core engineering theory from first principles and ability to extend theory to new and complex equipment
• Slurry pumping experience
• Mechanical package management
• Materials handling experience
• Site experience

Amec Foster Wheeler (www.amecfw.com) designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers across the global energy and related sectors.

Employing around 36,000 people in more than 55 countries and with 2015 revenues of £5.5 billion, the company operates across the oil and gas industry - from production through to refining, processing and distribution of derivative products - and in the mining, clean energy, power generation, pharma, environment and infrastructure markets.

Amec Foster Wheeler offers full life-cycle services to offshore and onshore oil and gas projects (conventional and unconventional, upstream, midstream and downstream) for greenfield, brownfield and asset support projects, plus leading refining technology.

Amec Foster Wheeler shares are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and its American Depositary Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Both trade under the ticker AMFW.