Design Engineering Team Leader (Facilities Management)

Job title: Design Engineering Team Leader (Facilities Management)

Job description: Company Background

What if there was a limitless, safe, clean, low-cost energy source, providing much needed global energy security? What if that energy source could also help reduce climate change? We believe that’s fusion energy. Tokamak Energy is a leading global commercial fusion energy company based near Oxford, UK. We have an unrivalled track record designing and operating spherical tokamaks; the optimal route to commercial fusion energy.

In addition to fusion energy, Tokamak Energy is recognised as the leader in High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) magnet, design, numerical modelling, and prototyping. Our dedicated HTS magnet team, in collaboration with key manufacturing partners, is focussed on becoming the leading supplier of HTS magnets to multiple markets.

The company, founded in 2009 as a spin-off from the UK’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, currently employs a growing team of over 250 people with experts from the UK and around the world. It combines world leading scientific, engineering, industrial and commercial capabilities. The company has 70 families of patent applications and has raised $250 million, comprising $200m from private investors and $50m from the UK and US governments. Our US subsidiary, Tokamak Energy Inc, was established in 2019.

Come and be a part of a dynamic and innovative team who are striving to provide a solution to one of humanity’s greatest challenges: clean and sustainable energy for all.

Overview of the role

Placed within the Facilities Engineering team, the Design Engineer Team Lead will be responsible for creating and managing their own designs, surveying, and developing new and existing system layouts and working with the projects departments to optioneer future designs and coordinate this information throughout the business using appropriate tools.

The post holder will also deputise for the Head of Facilities Engineering as and when required. You may also be responsible for the planning and implementation of facilities projects as well as overseeing installation. This is a proactive hands-on role which requires the post holder to be on site for the majority of the working week.

In this role, you will:

• Create site plans and schematic layouts, 2D and 3D
• Have overall design autonomy of the entire estate
• Carry out onsite surveying
• Design system layouts, HVAC, Piping and Power Distribution
• Co-ordinate and lead design reviews, clash detection
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers
• Schedule time, materials & cost estimates for facilities work packages
• Oversee installations, commissioning/plant acceptance/test certificates/witness testing
• Change control, documentation & asset management
• Manage the Facilities ticketing system closing out jobs in a timely manner

Hazard-specific / Safety-critical duties

This job includes the following hazards or safety-critical activities which will require successful pre-employment health screening through our occupational health service before the successful candidate will be allowed to start work:

• Working at height (ladders, scissor lifts, cherry pickers & scaffolding)
• Regular manual handling
• Driving on Company business
• Working with or in the vicinity of equipment that produces high magnetic fields

Requirements

Essential:

• Minimum of HNC in an engineering discipline
• Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems
• Knowledge of Inventor, Autocad, Vault
• Managing own workload and ability to work independently
• Project engineering – analysis and research
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working in a fast paced and demanding environment
• Experience of leading a team

Desirable:

• Use of LIDAR
• Knowledge of construction in an industrial setting
• Knowledge and use of point cloud data
• Ability to produce equipment & system specifications
• Ability to make hand calculations
• Membership of a professional body
• Engineering Degree

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays and 3 festive days to be used between Christmas and the New Year)
• Company pension scheme
• Eligible for company share option scheme
• Company bonus scheme, discretionary, dependant on performance
• A range of financial benefits including death in service and critical illness cover
• Cycle to work scheme

No terminology in the advert or job description is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

Important information for candidates

Pre-employment screening

Please note that the appointment of the successful candidate will be subject to standard pre-employment screening, as applicable to the post. This will include right-to-work, proof of identity and references.

Data privacy

Please note that any personal data submitted to Tokamak Energy as part of the job application process will be processed in accordance with the GDPR and related UK data protection legislation, for more information regarding GDPR please see:

Equality of opportunity

Entry into employment with the Tokamak Energy and progression within employment will be determined only by personal merit and the application of criteria which are related to the duties of each post and the relevant salary structure. In all cases, ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration. No applicant or member of staff shall be discriminated against because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Working arrangements

Please note, due to the nature of work for role 100% onsite working is required and hybrid working is not currently an option. There will be an opportunity to discuss hybrid working once the role holder has settled into the company.

Part time working or job share options will be reviewed on an individual basis.

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