Cryogenics Engineer
Overview of Responsibilities
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Cryogenics Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in processing and equipment selection, development of P&IDs, heat and mass balances and other supporting documentation and ensuring robust documentation is in place, including technical notes and reports.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Selection of design standards and validating designs against those standards, by computation or experimentation
- Carrying out analysis and validating analysis by others
- Ensuring safety requirements are met
- Engaging with Industry and the wider cryogenics sector on innovative developments
- Supervising junior engineers or students.
- Vendor management
- Engagement with partnering organisations
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
- Degree or equivalent in Mechanical or Process Engineering or equivalent STEM subject
- 2 years or more current experience in cryogenics or an adjacent field such as process engineering. This experience could be from a laboratory or an industrial setting
- Member of a professional organisation with, or working towards, chartered status
- Ability to perform exploratory design calculations using first principles
- Proven capability in engineering studies and a good working knowledge of engineering materials and their properties
- Experience with relevant environmental factors such as high pressures, vacuum and transient magnetic fields.
- Good communication and technical writing skills
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
All employees at the UK Atomic Energy Authority must complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and other appropriate security checks, including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.
