Responsible for coordinating and managing technical interfaces, design queries, assumptions, and decisions across multidisciplinary project teams. Acting as a key link between client product teams, internal design disciplines, and project stakeholders, the role ensures that integration risks, dependencies, and interface issues are identified, communicated, and resolved in a timely manner. The Integration Engineer supports effective project delivery by maintaining robust governance of design coordination processes and ensuring that critical assumptions and decisions are appropriately escalated and tracked throughout the project lifecycle.
What you will be doing:
Own and manage the Design Queries, Assumptions and Decisions (DQAD) process across the project.
Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of design queries, assumptions, actions, and decisions within the DQAD register.
Ensure timely progression, coordination, and close-out of actions assigned to DQAD entries.
Escalate key assumptions and decisions to the Project Risk Register where potential project impacts or uncertainties are identified.
Escalate significant assumptions and decisions to the Project Major Decisions & Assumptions Log in accordance with project governance requirements.
Liaise closely with the client product team to clarify requirements, validate assumptions, and support alignment on project objectives.
Coordinate with multidisciplinary design teams to resolve technical queries and integration challenges as they arise.
Identify, manage, and escalate issues affecting critical project interfaces and integration points.
Support cross-functional collaboration to ensure design consistency, interface alignment, and effective communication between stakeholders.
Contribute to risk mitigation activities by proactively identifying integration conflicts, gaps, or dependencies.
Support project reporting activities by providing updates on integration risks, open actions, and key decision items.
Formal qualifications or training:
Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Project Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Experience working within complex engineering, infrastructure, rail, construction, manufacturing, or multidisciplinary project environments.
Strong understanding of interface management, systems integration, and design coordination processes.
Experience managing design queries, assumptions, risk registers, or technical decision logs within a project setting.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across multiple teams and clients.
Make a Difference with DBD:
At DBD, we know you're looking for more than just a job - you aspire to make a real impact in the nuclear industry. We offer unique opportunities for growth, empowering you to take influential roles within client organisations.
Our dedicated team collaborates with clients to positively influence projects across Defence, Decommissioning and New Builds. Having doubled in headcount year-on-year, over the past two years, we continue to welcome new, talented individuals to our team.
We're committed to your success. DBD invests in your development and supports your career trajectory in any direction you want to take it.
Join us to play a key role in shaping the nuclear sector's future.
Make a difference today with DBD.
Benefits: up to 20% bonus, 25 days holiday, enhanced pension, private health insurance, private dental, and more
DBD is an independent global enterprise providing innovative solutions to complex technical, engineering and strategic challenges in highly regulated industries. Our success since launch in 2004 has been built on the quality of our delivery to our Clients, provided by our management and technical expertise. This consistent high quality delivery has led to the establishment of trust based, long term relationships with our Clients.
Since 2004 we have had an unswerving focus on recruitment of leading management and technical specialists who, on average, have over 20 years international experience in front end design, process and systems engineering, commissioning, decommissioning, safety and regulation in the nuclear, power and chemical plant sectors.
Today, our specialists operate across many major processing and power sites, including key nuclear sites in the UK. We also provide services to Clients and Partners in North America, Europe, Japan and South Africa. Whilst we guard our independence fiercely, we work with or alongside most major companies without becoming in any way biased towards any individual technologies, designs or operators.
A key differentiator for DBD is our dedication to building a clear understanding of the Client’s requirement, their objectives and success criteria. The expertise of our personnel underpins this quality-assured approach to all of our work.
