Senior Design Engineer

Senior Design Engineer (Oil and Gas sector) required for a global designer and manufacturer of some of the industry’s most reliable and sought-after completions solutions in downhole technology and resource-based in Northeast Scotland. Responsible for Providing solutions to the energy sector, your career to date will evidence previous employment gained working in a similar field. This is a permanent, full-time post, offering an annual salary up to £90k, plus an attractive range of employee benefits and future career progression.

Working as part of a talented and highly experienced team of engineers, this role focuses on the overall setting of Engineering standards and processes. You will be responsible for the provision of technical draft drawings, the creation of new assemblies, re-creating disassembly equipment, and the redressing of procedures.

As a Senior Design Engineer this client is looking to attract a candidate who is educated to bachelor’s degree Level in design/engineering with at least 10 years of previous, relevant design experience in the Oil and Gas sector. Ideally seeking an engineer with QHSE/API Q1 Awareness and experience gained working on product requirements to include API 11-D1, ANST and/or AWS. You will need to demonstrate previous knowledge of AutoCAD, CAD Works or/and SolidWorks, with an advanced knowledge of downhole manufacturing principles and methods.

You will have strong working knowledge of completion equipment design calculations, reviewing design plans through to final approval, participating in the product development process and overseeing of prototype design and testing. Naturally, there is a requirement to ensure conformance with engineering design and applicable design standards, collaborating with customer drawing control systems looking at intricate drawings and specifications. Able to identify manufacturing and design issues and solve at root cause, having full accountability for the maintenance of design changes, delivering well-communicated responses to key stakeholders and customers