Principal Nuclear Process Engineer

Principal Nuclear Process Engineer

Location: Plymouth, Devon (2 days) + Hybrid (3 days)

Salary c£70,000 + extensive Benefits

Full time / Permanent (35 hours per week)

A fantastic permanent opportunity has arisen with one of the UK's leading Nuclear Engineering businesses based at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth on a hybrid basis. 2 days on site and 3 days working from home. Enhance your career as a Principal Engineer in Nuclear Process, where you'll lead the provision of technical support to nuclear implicated submarine maintenance activities on Western Europe's largest Naval Base and one of the UK's Nuclear Licensed Sites.

Qualifications required:

• A Degree in a Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
• Professional membership as a Chartered Engineer with a relevant institution (or evidence of working towards this with demonstrable experience)
• Ability to satisfy SC level security clearance

The role

Day-to-day, you'll support the development and operation of new facilities for defuel of decommissioned nuclear submarines, and will provide technical guidance on the safe transfer, storage, treatment and disposal or radioactive liquid effluent from in-service submarines.

Acting as subject matter expert and leading the provision of advice to the Head of Nuclear Engineering Group, other Principal Engineers and key stakeholders from the wider business on the implementation and maintenance of design documentation

• Managing and developing a team of Engineers with varying levels of seniority/experience
• Leading the delivery of work packages in accordance with the design process (Start-up, Concept, Scheme, Detailed and Implementation phases) in order to maintain and improve capabilities
• Managing the production, checking and approval of technical documentation and drawings
• Leading engineering analyses including calculations, component structural analysis and system fluid flow analysis

Essential Experience

• Knowledge of mechanical engineering principles for the design, operation and maintenance of pressure/pipework systems
• Knowledge of the considerations for safe design, operation and maintenance or nuclear/radiologically implicated systems
• Experience leading a team of engineers in a design or technical support function
• Experience using engineering software packages (e.g. for computer aided design, stress analysis or fluid flow)
• Experience in the design, operation or maintenance of pressure systems in a highly regulated industry
• Experience in the application of, and demonstration of compliance with, legislation, engineering standards and design codes
• Knowledge of the design lifecycle and experience of leading work within it

Benefits include:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.