Senior Engineer – Engineering Capability, Governance and Assurance

Role Overview

• Supporting and delivering governance reviews and assurance activities across engineering, ensuring processes are being applied consistently and effectively.
• Developing, reviewing, maintaining, and continuously improving engineering processes, templates, guidance, and associated governance documentation.
• Collaborating with assurance, quality, design, and engineering stakeholders to identify gaps, non-conformances, process inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Investigating process-related issues, undertaking root cause analysis, gathering evidence, and producing high-quality reports supported by clear recommendations.
• Tracking, prioritising, and supporting the implementation of improvement actions, ensuring recommendations are translated into meaningful outcomes.
• Facilitating stakeholder engagement activities, gathering feedback, promoting best practice, and supporting organisational learning.
• Supporting change implementation activities to ensure new processes and ways of working are embedded successfully across the business.
• Using data evidence, and insight to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement across engineering capability.

Requirements

• An engineering degree or equivalent professional experience within engineering, governance, assurance, quality, operational excellence, or a related discipline.
• Working towards Chartered Engineer status or another relevant professional accreditation would be advantageous.
• Experience contributing to governance, assurance, compliance, quality, continuous improvement, operational excellence, or process improvement activities.
• Experience working within engineering, manufacturing, nuclear, aerospace, defence, infrastructure, energy, or another highly regulated environment would be beneficial.
• Experience supporting investigations, audits, assessments, process reviews, or assurance activities and translating findings into practical recommendations.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to implement improvements and drive organisational change.
• Knowledge of governance frameworks, process management principles, assurance methodologies, quality management systems, or business process improvement techniques.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build credibility and productive working relationships across diverse teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present findings, recommendations, and technical information clearly.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with the ability to assess complex information and identify root causes.
• A structured and organised approach, maintaining high attention to detail while managing competing priorities.
• A continuous improvement mindset coupled with curiosity, resilience, and a desire to challenge existing ways of working constructively.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Performance related target opportunity 12.5 %
• Benefits Allowance – £2,200 per annum, enabling you to create a bespoke package
• Pension
• 12% employer and 6% employee contributions.
• Holidays
• 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days.
• Private Medical Insurance
• BUPA single cover health care
• Life Assurance
• 6x pensionable pay
• £250
• One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases