Process Modeller
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £42,858 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role is based at the following site: Culham, Oxfordshire
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.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Process Modeller, you will play a pivotal role in supporting fusion fuel cycle development teams in producing computational models of process equipment, integrating the models of equipment items, developing novel solutions for modelling of specialist equipment and new modelling approaches for the cases where no relevant solutions exist.
The role will also contribute to the definition and analysis of experimental work required to generate data for model validation.
Key Accountabilities:
- Ensure that your behaviour promotes the safety, health and welfare of yourself and your colleagues
- Actively promote UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Support the creation and development of models for fusion fuel cycle systems and processes to integrate into designs for a prototype fusion fuel cycle.
- Maintain and update the simulation environment as required for specific applications.
- Contribute to the development, validation, and implementation of the models of hydrogen-specific phenomena for the conditions relevant to fusion fuel cycle processes.
- Execute work packages as part of a multidisciplinary team, manging delivery to maintain standards of quality, checking, review and deadlines.
- Responsible for sourcing data for the validation of models from literature.
- Develop scope for experimental work required for model validation.
- Represent and promote the Tritium Fuel Cycle division’s innovative offerings and technical specialisms both internally and externally, working collaboratively with other UKAEA departments as well as with external partners.
- Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Degree or equivalent level in relevant STEM subject with demonstratable engineering experience.
- Ability to solve problems in a proactive manner and apply appropriate attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills - able to articulate complex technical information to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
- Experience in producing and validating computational models of process plant.
- Experience in producing and fitting kinetic models of chemical reactions or adsorption/desorption processes.
- Experience in design of process plant.
- Evidence of understanding of the technology development pipeline from concept to design.
- Ability to use statistical analysis for uncertainty quantification.
- Experience in process modelling using Aspen, including Aspen Dynamics.
Desirable:
- Desirable that the job holder be a Chartered Engineer (or demonstrably at the level of a Chartered Engineer).
- Experience working in an academic or industrial research environment, within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience with modelling processing of light gasses and rarefied gas dynamics.
- Experience of applying and promoting good code development practices (collaborative development, version control, automated testing, documentation).
- Understanding of Design of Experiments approach.
- Experience in using COMSOL package highly desirable.
- Experience desired in Python but not essential.
- Commercial awareness and evidence of delivering innovative solutions.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. 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 organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
