Engineering Analyst (Simulation Research)
Overview of Responsibilities
This role is being advertised at 2 different grades depending on relevant experience. The salary will be either £40,609 or £54,376 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance) and Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for Flexible Working.
Please include a covering letter detailing your motivation for applying and highlighting your relevant skills and experience.
This role is can be based at the following sites; Culham, Oxfordshire, Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
Who are we looking for?
As we are growing the UKAEA virtual engineering programme, we currently have an exciting opportunity for computational engineers or physicists who want to work at the forefront of their field leading in research and execution of integrated multi-disciplinary and multi-physics simulation tools to solve some of our most complex problems.
As an experienced engineering analyst, you will be adept in performing computational engineering or physics analyses, have experience in supervising others or leading teams, and bring enthusiasm, flair, and diversity to our dynamic team.
What will you be responsible for?
In this role you will work as part of a growing team helping to foster and implement a strategy for the development of analysis and simulation capability to provide progressive and continual enhancement to the delivery of engineering projects. You will support the development and deployment of integrated simulations and realisation of a fusion reactor `digital twin`. You will help in identifying and exploiting opportunities for growth, writing research proposals, making links between related disciplines, and holding deep knowledge of the landscape of computational analysis and simulation both within and outside the fusion community.
Qualifications
Essential skills, experience and competence required
- A Master`s degree in engineering or other relevant discipline, (eg mathematics or physics) or equivalent experience.
- Sound knowledge of the fundamentals of solid and fluid mechanics and applied engineering mathematics
- Experience in application of classical analysis techniques for understanding and solving problems from first principles and verification of numerical simulations.
- Experience in the application of numerical simulation techniques (FEA/CFD), including at least two of: thermal, structural, structural dynamics, fluid dynamics, magnetic (static or transient), neutronics, magnetohydrodynamics.
- Experience in the use of FEA/CFD software such as ANSYS Mechanical, COMSOL multi-physics, OpenFOAM, etc…
- Awareness of systems simulation and acausal modelling techniques (e.g. multi-body dynamics, quas-1d fluid flow, lumped mass models) and relevant software/languages used (eg. MATLAB/Simscape, Dymola/Modelica, etc…)
- Ability to rapidly understand, investigate and adopt existing / new software products and apply innovative solutions for integration into simulation workflows.
- Excellent communication, both technical and interpersonal skills, and a high standard of report/presentation writing.
- Some experience with programming (eg, Matlab, Python, C++, etc…)
- For the more senior grade, experience leading teams and supervising other staff.
Desirable skills, experience and competence
- Experience in multi body dynamics simulation using packages such as MSC ADAMS or similar, including familiarity with simulation of rigid and flexible body dynamics, mechanical drives and actuators.
- Experience in performing analysis with systems modelling software such as Simulink-Simscape, AMESIM or similar
- Experience with model order reduction techniques and their application
- Experience with uncertainty quantification through simulation and application of formal reliability analysis
- Understanding of the fundamentals of Tokamak operations
- Knowledge of plasma equilibrium codes and/or 2-D plasma `fluid` codes
- Experience of applying and promoting good code development practices (collaborative development, version control, automated testing, documentation).
- Experience in writing research grant proposals and/or contributing to organisational research strategy documents.
- Attained or actively working towards Chartered status with a suitable professional institution.
Additional Information
We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. 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.
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.
