Job Description

• Job Title: Facilities / Project Engineer (Mechanical or C&I Bias)
• Location: Reading Site based Full time
• Contract: 12 month contract
• Rate: £50 an hour outside IR35

Are you a seeking a skilled Facilities / Project Engineer looking to deliver defined engineering outputs on a major defence project? This is an amazing opportunity to support safe and compliant decommissioning across A1, A50, and OWMG facilities! This is a task-based role focused on resolving operational engineering issues, delivering asset improvement activities, and bridging facility engineering with project delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

Critical Asset Identification:

• Identify and define minimum critical asset sets required to support decommissioning.
• Develop asset baselines and system dependencies to subsystem level (e.g., electrical panels, utilities, controls).
• Enhance and utilise existing baseline information efficiently.

Critical Asset RAG Assessment:

• Assign RAG status to all critical assets based on availability, reliability, spares, obsolescence, failure mechanisms, remaining life, structural integrity, and operational impact.
• Provide justification, assumptions, and key risks for each rating.

Improvement Actions:

• Define proportionate maintenance, repair, refurbishment, spares strategies, modifications, replacements, or simplifications (including COTS adoption) for Amber/Red and key Green assets.
• Apply safe, pragmatic, and delivery-focused engineering solutions.
• Define recommended interventions, timescales, and delivery owners.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Strong experience in mechanical or C&I engineering, preferably within nuclear, defence, or regulated industrial environments.
• Proven track record in asset identification, improvement planning, and operational support.
• Experience performing RAG assessments, risk analysis, and system reliability evaluations.
• Ability to define and implement pragmatic engineering solutions for operational assets.
• Strong organisational, planning, and communication skills.
• Experience working with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects.

Desirable:

• Experience with decommissioning or lifecycle management of critical facilities.
• Knowledge of UK nuclear safety and operational regulations.

Please note that this role will require an active UK security clearance.
if you are qualified and interested, please apply or email (url removed)