Standardisation Design Engineer in Derby, Derbyshire

Standardisation Engineer

Location: 1 day a week in the office - Derby or Manchester

Permanent

£40,000 - £ 60,000 depending on experience.

ARM are supporting on an exciting opportunity that has arisen for a Standardisation Engineer to join a pioneering clean energy programme focused on delivering innovative low-carbon power solutions. This role sits within the Standardisation & Standard Parts team, which is responsible for reducing product variation, improving engineering efficiency, and supporting deployment across a complex, highly regulated engineering environment.

You will play a key role in shaping standardisation strategy across multidisciplinary engineering teams, helping ensure products and components are repeatable, cost-effective, and aligned with programme-wide objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive standardisation strategies across components, systems, and plant-wide engineering activities.
• Promote product and process consistency through standard rules, tools, and procedures.
• Review engineering artefacts to identify opportunities to reduce variation and improve repeatability.
• Support optimisation of engineering workflows, improving efficiency and reducing resource and time requirements.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of standard parts catalogues and associated engineering tools.
• Provide technical guidance and governance relating to standardisation principles and decisions.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams to align design approaches and resolve variation issues.
• Support integration and consistency across multiple engineering disciplines and delivery partners.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in engineering standardisation, configuration control, product optimisation, or related disciplines.
• Background in complex engineering environments such as nuclear, energy, aerospace, automotive, defence, rail, or manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of engineering processes, component interfaces, and product lifecycle considerations.
• Heavy mechanical product knowledge.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Must be a driven individual who is able to take full accountability for delivering set work packages.

Experience Required

• MEng Degree or HNC with proven experience in Mechanical Engineering.
• Knowledge of engineering data management systems and standard parts catalogues.
• Familiarity with regulated industries and quality assurance processes.
• Experience working with suppliers and external engineering partners.
• Six Sigma is desirable but not essential.