Hydraulic Engineer

One of our core clients, an expert in Hydraulic Systems and Solutions, is looking for a Hydraulic engineer to join their team in Gateshead

The Hydraulic Engineer’s duties are to lead a job or a project from the enquiry stage to its successful completion and supervise technicians to ensure quality, lead time and financial objectives are met or exceeded. Engineering projects will require a high level of attention to detail, responsiveness, technical check, and management of documentation. The scope of the engineering builds may include hydraulic power units, control consoles, bespoke hydraulic systems, and manifolds.

The Hydraulic Engineer will be responsible for providing the technical information to the customer, suppliers, subcontractors, and on-site/workshop hydraulic technicians. They must ensure a clear system functional understanding from all the different persons involved in the project, approve sub-contractors’ design, and get the customer design approval via the produced documents and following our design procedure.

The Hydraulic Engineer will be responsible for maintaining communication and documentation control between the customer, suppliers, sub-contractors, on-site/workshop hydraulic technicians, preparing all the technical documents, work instructions and RAMS, technical specifications, tracking material shortages, compiling document packs (paper and electronic), and assisting with material and equipment preparation.

As part of this role, the Hydraulic Engineer will work in the workshop and on-site. They will be involved in activities such as commissioning, fault finding, mechanical assembly, hoses manufacture, rigid piping, flushing and pressure testing.

Main Responsibilities

• Project Management
• Project planning
• Keep the job on track to meet financial objectives and deadlines
• Review and clarify customer requirements
• Make quotations
• Ensure feasibility
• Provide technical guidance to the customer
• Prepare hydraulic schematics & bill of material
• Prepare engineering drawings or give clear design instructions to the draughtsman
• Work out calculations
• Select and size components
• Optimize system performance and cost
• Resolve problems and improve manufacturability and serviceability of products
• Procurements following projects technical, financial and time requirements
• Prepare technical specification for sub-contractors
• Approve subcontractor’s design
• Check delivered goods on projects
• Preparation of the work file prior to start the job:
• Prepare detailed work instructions & risk assessments
• Prepare drawings, hydraulic schematics and BOMs

• Plan workshop/onsite work and prepare required tooling
• Plan resources on the workload
• Brief operational team prior to starting a job
• Support operational team for technical operations
• Filling/Verifying paperwork during the job
• Ensure compliance with customer requirements
• Control work after completion and issue the as build final documents
• Prepare the OMM Operation and Maintenance Manual
• Compilation of the Documentation Pack
• Review the project KPIs for debriefing