Senior Mechanical Engineer
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £54,376 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days each 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 Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in providing technical support to projects to facilitate the escalation of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) by leading the requirements capture, component and system design, assessment, and commissioning for the tritium fuel cycle plant and associated equipment to deliver safe and viable solutions and facilities for tritium research.
Key Accountabilities:
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- Lead the engineering delivery of a Supplier Engineering Package, ensuring designs meet requirements and standards.
- Support the development of project strategies and prioritisation, contributing technical expertise to shape project direction.
- Prepare and manage procurement specifications, including scope of work, bid evaluations, supplier document reviews, and technical queries.
- Oversee supplier interactions, including factory acceptance tests (FATs), change management, contract support, and compliance with technical control standards.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Relevant qualification in mechanical engineering.
- Demonstratable experience in a systems-engineering approach to long-term plant performance and availability.
- Demonstrable knowledge of thermal and structural design, plant engineering, design of experiments, manufacturing and joining, additive manufacture, synthesis of materials and magnetics and superconductors.
- Experience of safety management systems, including hazard identification, risk assessments and hazard elimination and mitigation.
- Able to demonstrate excellent and adaptive interpersonal and communication skills – engage effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience of, and excellent, technical report writing skills.
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload.
- Good IT literacy and competency in utilising SharePoint and MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
- Ability to use initiative to resolve queries or issues and improvements.
Desirable:
- Chartered engineer or scientist or be able to demonstrate working at that level.
- Experience in the maintenance / or operation of a process plant, or in a laboratory environment, and handling radioactive materials or other hazardous materials.
- A basic understanding of radiological hazards.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/.
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.
