Mechanical Design Engineer

Description Join Trant Engineering and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects. Trant Engineering is a leading EPC contractor with a strong reputation for delivering innovative engineering solutions across the UK and internationally.

With over 1,000 employees and a £150m turnover, we're growing—and now looking for an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer to play a key role in our project delivery teams. The Role As a Mechanical Design Engineer you would be applying advanced engineering principles and practices to design, manage, and deliver projects of moderate complexity.

This position requires independent judgment, technical expertise, and leadership skills to oversee scopes, schedules, and budgets while ensuring compliance with professional standards and sustainability principles. The role includes mentoring junior staff, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and maintaining effective communication with stakeholders.

What You'll Be Doing General Characteristics Applies broad knowledge of engineering principles and practices within a specific discipline. Independently evaluates, selects, and adapts standard techniques, procedures, and criteria for conventional projects with few complex features.

Contributes to multidisciplinary teams and acquires general knowledge of related fields. Demonstrates sound judgment in adapting methods for non-routine aspects of assignments. Acknowledges and applies concepts of sustainability to engineering projects.

Technological Responsibilities Designs complete projects, systems, components, or processes. Prepares comprehensive specifications, drawings, and project documentation. Designs and conducts site investigations; analyses and interprets survey data.

Formulates and solves engineering problems using standard and adapted methods. Oversees moderate projects or contributes to specific parts of large-scale projects. Schedule, Project & Task Management Applies leadership and teamwork skills to plan, execute, and manage scopes, schedules, and budgets.

Contributes to project meetings and presents specific aspects of engineering assignments. Develops an awareness of change management practices and commercial impact of decisions, incorporating this into design activities.

Management, Supervision & Guidance Assigns tasks to and directs junior members of project team (technical and non-technical staff). Interprets, organizes, executes, and coordinates detailed aspects of engineering work. Mentors direct reports and less experienced staff by providi...

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