Fluids Engineer
BH-322620
Posted: 27/03/2026
- Competitive Salary and Benefits
- England North East Thornaby-on-Tees
- Permanent
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Manufacturing
About the Business
A global engineering and technology organisation delivering complex, large-scale industrial projects across the metals sector. They design, build, and upgrade production facilities, combining mechanical, electrical, and process engineering expertise to deliver full turnkey solutions from concept through to commissioning.
Fluids Engineer – Role Overview
As a Fluids Engineer, you’ll play a key role within the engineering team, you will take ownership of a defined scope within a project, with responsibility for delivering high-quality technical output while ensuring productivity, progress, health & safety, and full compliance are maintained throughout.
This is a hands-on, project-focused role where you’ll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, and clients to drive successful project delivery from design through to commissioning
Key Responsibilities
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.
A global engineering and technology organisation delivering complex, large-scale industrial projects across the metals sector. They design, build, and upgrade production facilities, combining mechanical, electrical, and process engineering expertise to deliver full turnkey solutions from concept through to commissioning.
Fluids Engineer – Role Overview
As a Fluids Engineer, you’ll play a key role within the engineering team, you will take ownership of a defined scope within a project, with responsibility for delivering high-quality technical output while ensuring productivity, progress, health & safety, and full compliance are maintained throughout.
This is a hands-on, project-focused role where you’ll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, and clients to drive successful project delivery from design through to commissioning
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and delivery of fluid systems across allocated project scopes
- Produce and review high-quality engineering documentation (P&IDs, schematics, calculations, BoMs, manuals)
- Act as the technical focal point for all fluid-related aspects within project teams
- Support project delivery by managing progress, technical output, and change control
- Ensure compliance with all relevant standards, regulations, and internal procedures
- Contribute to design reviews, safety assessments, and risk evaluations
- Provide hands-on technical support through manufacturing, testing, installation, and commissioning phases
- Work closely with procurement, suppliers, and subcontractors to ensure efficient delivery
- Support tendering and proposals by developing technical specifications and cost inputs
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams, clients, and external partners
- Solid experience in industrial fluid systems or hydraulics, ideally within heavy industry
- Strong design capability with a practical, hands-on engineering mindset
- Ability to deliver robust, manufacturable solutions suited to harsh operating environments
- Experience producing engineering calculations (Excel or similar)
- Good understanding of health & safety and regulatory requirements
- Confident working both independently and within multidisciplinary teams
- Background in fluids design engineering within heavy industry environments
- Experience across the full project lifecycle (design through to commissioning)
- Exposure to iron & steel or similar process industries
- 3D CAD experience (Autodesk Inventor, CADWorx, Siemens NX)
- Professional membership or working towards accreditation
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.