Equipment Integration Lead Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the nuclear field is seeking an Equipment Integration Lead Engineer in Bristol. The role involves ensuring design maturity and coordinating cross-functional teams, with a focus on leadership in a highly regulated environment. Ideal candidates will possess a Master's degree and extensive experience in engineering and project management, and are expected to uphold high safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in a senior engineering role.
• Robust knowledge of EPR design and engineering processes.
• Understanding of UK laws and regulations in the nuclear industry.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design maturity and configuration management within the Equipment team.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
• Lead and manage the Open Point Coordinator network.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent in Engineering or Scientific discipline

Job description

Job Description

Location: Bristol

Job Type: Permanent, Full time

Field: Nuclear

Way of working: Hybrid (2 days remotely)

Education Level: Master’s degree or equivalent in an Engineering or Scientific discipline

Experience: at least 5 years of relevant experience

Salary: Attractive following experience

Starting date: 02/06/2025

ABOUT US

KURY UK Ltd is part ofan international company, Kury Groupe, 100% dedicated to the nuclear field with 23 years of experience in nuclear engineering.

Since then, we have been working with EDF (French Electricity Producer). We are involved in several nuclear projects, including FA3 EPR (France), the French fleet, Taishan EPR (China), Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C.

We are now looking for engineers to join our Team in the UK. Our human-sized structure (100 employees worldwide) allows us to devote to mentoring and training our engineers. We take a special care of our employees’ development by ensuring them quality projects through which they will increase their skills.

Our Kury values: Curiosity, Trust, Rigour, Teamwork

Our team is international, our engineers are coming from different countries as we are looking for the best talents!

SUITABLE CANDIDATE

You enjoy analysing concrete problems, finding solutions and then setting them up.

Getting involved in significant industrial and engineering projects involving very demanding precautions as regards industrial safety captivates you.

Your good analytical skills, sense of logic, aptitude for synthesising and your scientific knowledge will allow you to adapt quickly to multi-system environments.

You have the ability to adapt to new technical problems. You know how to manage a small-sized team.

You like the idea of working on Projects and Quality matters to you.

You are a good team player.

THE ROLE

As Equipment Integration Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for the integration topics within the Equipment team, setting objectives and driving performance of the teams with regards to design maturity and configuration management as well as offering support and technical direction for complex and cross-cutting topics.

You will be in charge of the following activities:

• Act as ambassador for the Equipment team to drive design maturity and stability to challenge technical impacts of open points and design changes.
• Ensure the resolution of various cross-functional technical issues including OP, UKDC and IDT by coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders between building/system/contract.
• Reporting to Control Tower/ EMM on the yearly design maturity and stability objectives and escalating topics needing support.
• Lead & manage the OP coordinator network.
• Act as Level 2 Open Point Coordinator, attending coordination meetings and responsible for validating the status in OPM for Level 2 OPs.
• Lead the decision-making on L2 OPs that do not need arbitration in Governance Committees or advise the proper governance for the OP (NIAM, CMB, PHPC, ITB OP Forum, etc).
• Act as Entity Interface Manager, participating in ad-hoc meetings and forums as needed and supporting teams with escalation of blocking points with regards to technical interfaces (IDT).
• Maintenance & reporting of OPEX, OP, PHOP and DC (TDI) progress through KPI production and dashboard preparation.
• Sharing and cascading of good practices regarding integration and configuration management across other ITBx entities.
• Leads & manages the Mods Coordinator network.
• Facilitates the day-to-day implementation of the UKDC process for ITBE, especially when it comes to the challenge of UKDC and assurance of maturity of impact analyses.
• Reports to the NI Configuration Manager about DC activities and performance.

During the first months, you can count on the KURY Team to assist you all along your projects.

This experience will give you the opportunity to move on to other types of equipment or projects in the medium term: you will tackle varied but complementary projects, studies and technical topics. Your understanding of the technical and environmental challenges will allow you to take on complex and critical transversal studies.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Experience in senior engineering/leadership/project management.
• Robust knowledge and extensive experience of the EPR design and engineering processes.
• Good understanding of requirements and expectations of UK laws, regulations, nuclear industry operating experience and best practices.
• Leadership experience in a highly regulated, technical environment.
• Ability to set objectives, drive performance of teams and report progress to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to set, achieve and maintain the highest standards of safety and quality.
• Excellent leadership, communication and collaborative skills; pro-active and ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders within a multicultural environment.
• Positive, calm and can-do attitude. Able to find pragmatic resolutions to multiple and often conflicting requests for resource and technical expertise, when under considerable time and delivery pressure.
• Experience interfacing with regulators would be an advantage.
• French-speaking would be an advantage.