Project Engineer

Project Engineer Location: Bridgwater, 2 days per week on site, 3 days working from home Contract: Full-time Start Date: ASAP Rate: £290 per day PAYE / £390 per day Umbrella The Opportunity We are seeking a proactive and experienced Project Engineer to support a major nuclear new-build project within its Critical Technical Programmes team.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes, supporting the delivery of a new generation of nuclear power stations and the UK's transition towards reliable, low-carbon energy.

The role will play an important part in supporting the project's regulatory and licensing commitments, specifically through the development and delivery of a Post-RC2 Stress Report Strategy. This work is essential to demonstrating the structural integrity and mechanical adequacy of the plant design, ensuring that engineering documentation reflects the evolving as-built plant and associated loading conditions.

Working closely with the Stress Reports Task Force Lead, you will coordinate activities across multiple engineering disciplines, stakeholders and supply chain partners to ensure the effective delivery of agreed workstreams.

In addition to supporting the technical programme, you will provide operational quality management (QML) support, helping to ensure that quality requirements are consistently understood, implemented and maintained across the supply chain and wider project functions.

Key Responsibilities Project Engineering & Workstream Coordination Lead one or more defined workstreams, coordinating multidisciplinary teams to achieve agreed objectives and deliverables. Work closely with the Stress Reports Task Force Lead to support the development and implementation of the Post-RC2 Stress Report Strategy.

Coordinate stakeholder engagement, ensuring actions, deliverables and dependencies are clearly understood and progressed. Monitor programme progress, identify potential risks, issues and blockers, and proactively support their resolution.

Maintain project trackers, action logs, Gantt charts and reporting documentation. Prepare meeting agendas, minutes, presentations and progress updates for internal and external stakeholders. Collate, analyse and manage information from multiple engineering teams to support informed decision-making.

Support the review and ongoing management of Stress Report documentation to ensure alignment with evolving plant design, configuration and loading conditions. Quality Management & Supply Chain Support Provide QML operational support for quality-related activities associated with the supply chain.

Work collaboratively with project functions, engineering teams and suppliers to ensure compliance with applicable project quality arrangements. Support the effective implementation and monitoring of quality requirements throughout the supply chain...

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