Plant Layout Technical Lead

Our client a well known organisation specialising within the Nuclear and Energy Sector are actively looking to hire a Plant Layout Technical Lead to work on a project based in Norttingham.

Job Title: Plant Layout Technical Lead
Location: Nottingham (Post Code can be provided for confirmed location)
Duration: 12 Months
Hybrid Working: 3 Days Site / 2 Days Home
Hourly Rates: Competitive Inside IR35 

Provide Plant Layout technical leadership to ensure the STEP Prototype Plant (SPP) is developed as an integrated, buildable, operable, maintainable, and constructible facility. The service shall lead the integration of Mechanical, Electrical, Piping (MEP), equipment, and infrastructure layouts, ensuring that plant arrangements support safe installation, operation, inspection, maintenance, and future programme development.

The capability shall facilitate effective coordination across multidisciplinary interfaces, manage spatial integration and layout risks, and support the delivery of a coherent, plant-wide physical integration strategy that enables efficient design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the facility.

Job Requirements\Outcomes:

• A coordinated and technically robust plant layout philosophy covering routing hierarchy, spatial zoning, access requirements, design margins, and integration principles.
• Integrated plant layouts and routing solutions developed within the programme 3D model and aligned to evolving system requirements.
• Physical integration risks identified, managed, and progressively reduced as design maturity increases.
• Clash-free, constructable, maintainable, and installable plant arrangements.
• Effective resolution of multidisciplinary design interfaces.
• Layouts aligned with construction methodologies, modularisation strategies, commissioning requirements, and site constraints.
• Progressive design assurance supported through controlled layout maturation and change management.

Scope of Services:

The service shall provide Plant Layout technical authority and integration leadership across the STEP programme, establishing the philosophy, governance, standards, and assurance framework necessary to deliver an integrated, buildable, operable, and maintainable facility.

The role shall provide independent technical leadership and decision-making for plant-wide physical integration, ensuring that plant layout principles, spatial allocation strategies, and integration priorities are consistently applied across all Integrated Project Teams (IPTs). Detailed engineering design and layout development shall remain the responsibility of the respective IPTs.

The service shall act as the focal point for plant-wide integration matters, providing oversight, challenge, guidance, and assurance to ensure that individual system and facility layouts collectively deliver a coherent and executable plant configuration.

Capability Expectations:

The service provider shall demonstrate extensive experience delivering plant layout, routing, and physical integration activities for large, complex engineering programmes. The provider should possess strong technical knowledge of piping layout, equipment integration, HVAC routing, constructability, modularisation, installation strategy, and maintainability principles. Experience acting as a technical authority or responsible engineer for multidisciplinary integration is essential, together with proficiency in 3D design environments and plant modelling tools.

Key Service Requirements:

• Define and maintain the integrated plant layout philosophy.
• Develop, govern, and coordinate integrated MEP layouts and routing solutions within the programme 3D model.
• Translate system and component requirements into practical physical arrangements.
• Manage plant-wide spatial allocation and integration priorities.
• Define and implement layout maturity strategies and controlled change processes.
• Ensure layout solutions support installation, commissioning, inspection, maintenance, lifting, and operational access requirements.
• Provide technical oversight of constructability, modularisation, and installation methodologies.
• Lead resolution of multidisciplinary integration conflicts.
• Facilitate design reviews and model coordination activities.
• Identify and manage physical integration risks.
• Support continuous improvement of layout methods, standards, and tools.