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DOCAN is an Engineering Consultancy working in the UK and beyond. Our HQ is in Northwich at Gadbrook Park / Cheshire. Due to growth, we have a new role in the company of Business Administrator.

The DOCAN company has a can do attitude, and this is essential for the role.

This person will be working directly with the Management Team and will help scale the back office with the Commercial Director.

This is a role which for the right candidate can grow with the business as it scales potentially leading to a senior role within the company.

You will be working with Engineering Consultants, helping solve some of the most complex problems in industry.

For this role, noting it is a new role in the company, we will be selecting from a wide range of excellent candidates.

For successful candidates, with the right attitude, this role could develop in due course along a number of streams – from business development and sales, financial control, human resources, to senior management and beyond.

We require the Business Administrator to have at least 2 years relevant work experience, but not more than 5 years work experience, and to have some form of qualification; the minimum being A level’s or BTEC, but could equally be Degree or MBA level.

What will you do on a daily basis? The full range of activities which a Business Administrator does. From answering the phone, to streamlining business functions, to invoicing clients, to help getting deals done, and helping the company become more successful and have fun on the way.

DOCAN is an Engineering Consultancy working in the UK and beyond. Our HQ is in Northwich / Cheshire and we also have Offices in South Humberside local to many industrial clients.

Due to growth, we are now looking for a staff Piping Designer who will work with our Pressure Systems Team and help grow this part of our business. Our Piping Engineering Projects include both brown and green field, but are generally of an industrial nature, and quite often working on COMAH sites or if international working for non-trivial systems.

DOCAN has a long history of Pressure Systems, and as we grow the business our scope sizes and complexity grow, including FEED and Detailed Engineering, but also modifications, remediations, uprates, as well as Business as Usual.

We work directly with a number of Blue Chip operators, as well as other Engineering firms. As a DOCAN Piping Designer, you will be involved in designing and contributing to a wide range of areas which will include equipment, piping, tanks, vessels, and structures.

We are a technology led company, and equip our Designers and Engineers with the most appropriate technologies to make our people and processes a cut above the rest and be efficient.

DOCAN use a wide range of technologies for design, including SolidWorks, SolidEdge, AutoCAD, CADWorks, Tekla and more.

We expect you to have a wide range of experience, to have a fundamental understanding of piping, and how it links to an overall system. You will have experience of designing from scratch, to designing modifications and considering deconstruction and construction.

We expect you to have a good design background with an understanding of the B31 codes, have a thorough knowledge of reading relevant engineering drawings, from PFD’s, P&ID’s to detailed fabrications and schedules and to be able to create these drawings and documents.

Most of your time will be spent within a Consultancy Environment, but from time to time, you may have to go to site, and complete and manage surveys.

The ideal candidate will come from an apprentice background and worked up from the shop floor, to draftsman and then to designer. However, you may have come from an alternative route.

We expect at least 10 years practical relevant experience, of Piping Design, and ideally with a HNC or HND in Plant Design or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent. Experience using and administering 3D piping design packages such as CADWorx or AutoCAD Plant 3D would be advantageous.

We are a modern technology led company, with a customer focus, working generally on very challenging projects, producing a very high standard work.

We equip our Engineers and Designers with the best technology and tools, and enable you to succeed.

We have some of the best minds in Industry, and work on some very interesting projects, adding significant value to our clients.

The range of projects we work on include Oil and Gas, Renewables, Nuclear, Power Gen, Manufacturing, and more. This is an opportunity to contribute, learn and add value from one of the up and coming top Consulting firms in the UK.

If you have a can do attitude, come to team DOCAN.