Senior Mechanical Engineer
Reference: PPPSRP875
Location: Hinton House, Birchwood Park, Risley
Work arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office
Capacity to support office based working arrangement for of up to 5 days per week (Typically a blended working arrangement, 3/2 Office/WFH based on work demand and by agreement with manager)
Arrangement: Permanent or Contract (Inside IR35)
NUVIA UK's Technical Services & Consulting department is fast growing with hybrid opportunities available up and down the country. We're striving to create a multidisciplinary team to offer our clients the best range of talent.
BPSS clearance will be required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferable.
The Sellafield Product & Residue Store (SPRS) Retreatment Plant (SRP) Project will provide a facility that receives Special Nuclear Material (SNM) from existing stores across the Sellafield site and processes it into a form suitable for safe and secure storage until 2120. This is a national strategic asset. This new Retreatment Plant project will make Sellafield safer sooner by;
- Safely receiving all SNM packages from their current storage locations.
- Retreating and/or repackaging those packages into 100-year packages.
- Transferring the new 100-year packages to the Sellafield Product & Residue Store (SPRS); and
- Enabling all SNM to remain safe and secure in this Store – into the next century and beyond.
The SRP project is currently in the execution phase which incorporates procurement, design, manufacture, works test, installation, and commissioning. This role is required to provide both design support activities to the supply chain, along with completion of outstanding design scope from earlier project phases. Furthermore, the role will include overseeing implementation of formal Design Change.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning and co-ordinating engineering and design activities.
- Developing and implementing engineering solutions for complex engineering projects, from concept design proposals through to design for manufacture, the full project life cycle.
- Identifying design, statutory and regulatory requirements, and contributing to risk assessments.
- Supporting resolution of conflicting design requirements.
- Producing technical reports, technical specifications and scoping calculations.
- Reviewing technical deliverables, including reports and drawings.
- Presenting engineering solutions to stakeholders and as part of design reviews.
- Delivering your scope of work to time and budget.
