About this role
On behalf of our Client, we are recruiting for a Senior Decommissioning & Dismantling Engineer
Within the Decommissioning and Dismantling (D&D) discipline, you will participate in core D&D engineering tasks and activities, ranging from decommissioning planning, design and waste handling studies to dismantling, demolition and delicensing tasks.
The four core pillars of the D&D discipline are:
- Retrievals
- Poco
- Investigations and Characterisations
- Dismantling and Demolition
You will intervene throughout the full life cycle of decommissioning projects: Feasibility, Preliminary Design Stage, Detail Design Stage, Construction/Commissioning. You will be responsible for delivering innovative engineering solutions to decommissioning challenges both across the UK and in an international setting.
As a Senior Engineer, you will also have the opportunity/responsibility of being a technical lead for projects and discrete packages of work. This will involve interfacing with the Client and coaching/leading more junior members of the team in delivering technical work.
Requirements
Role and Responsibilities
- Qualifications and experience needed
- Minimum of 5 years professional engineering/technical specialist experience.
- BSc/MSc or BEng/MEng in a relevant nuclear engineering, decommissioning, waste management or engineering (preferably with a specialist in nuclear) field.
- Experience in nuclear decommissioning or waste management projects OR in the field of nuclear operations / nuclear power generation OR translatable experience in a similarly highly regulated industry.
- Member of a professional body is desirable.
- Chartership is desirable.
- Skills required
- Ability to confidently liaise with external stakeholders and team members, both oral and written.
- Ability to independently seek out or develop one’s own answer to challenging technical questions.
- Ability to organise one’s own time and the time of others to ensure internal / external deadlines are achieved and Client expectations are exceeded.
- Desire for self-development; to learn and develop within the role.
- Additional
The successful candidate must, by the start of employment, have permission to work in the UK, and be willing to undergo a security vetting process. Offers of employment will be subject to relevant security clearance being granted.
- Travel to other offices and client sites may be necessary. You should be willing to work flexibly to accommodate project and client requirements.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Private Medical Insurance at Single, Partner and Family levels
- Non Contributory Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing by 1 day per year of service up to a cap of 30
- Group Life Assurance of 4 times annual salary and Group Income Protection scheme for long term sickness
- Enhanced Maternity Pay