Senior Project Engineer
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £56,596 (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 or Rotherham.
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
We are seeking a skilled Senior Project Engineer to provide leadership on engineering projects of moderate scale and significance, driving innovation and influencing the direction of the organisation and its collaborators. You will manage and deliver complex engineering projects, from proposing and defining project scopes to leading multidisciplinary teams focused on enhancement programs, future fusion devices, and related technology applications. This role involves coordinating teams to develop technical solutions, designs, and resolving critical operational challenges, while providing expert guidance and direction throughout the project lifecycle to ensure successful outcomes.
If you have strong communication and technical writing skills, excellent interpersonal abilities, and experience supervising others, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Accountabilities:
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Provide technical leadership across UKAEA projects, managing medium-scale projects independently or leading sections of larger, complex initiatives while acting as a key technical reference for internal teams and external stakeholders.
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Ensure engineering excellence by developing and implementing high-quality technical processes, designs, and procedures throughout all project phases.
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Deliver successful outcomes by meeting project milestones, quality, scope, budget, and time objectives in collaboration with project and work package managers.
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Oversee technical analysis and reporting, ensuring designs are validated, reviewed, and well-documented through reports, presentations, and stakeholder communications.
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Lead and support teams by mentoring engineers, fostering collaboration, and maintaining effective communication across UKAEA and partner organisations.
Further details about responsibilities and requirements can be found in the full Job Description.
Qualifications
- A relevant engineering degree of equivalent
- Working towards or achieved Chartered Engineer status with a suitable professional institution
- Ability to perform exploratory design calculations using first principles
- A good working knowledge of a broad range of engineering disciplines
- Experience with working to design standards
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.
