FEED Engineering Leader – Nuclear Projects (Hybrid)

Amentum; Risley; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amentum is seeking an experienced FEED Area Engineering Manager to support the Design Services Alliance (DSA) at Sellafield. This role sits within the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase and leads multidisciplinary teams to develop technically robust and deliverable engineering solutions from conception through Gate 2.

This hybrid role requires strong governance, engineering leadership, and collaboration across safety, operations, and stakeholders to ensure maturity for detailed design and

Qualifications

• Significant engineering leadership experience in a highly regulated industry.
• Proven track record leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience delivering FEED, concept, feasibility, appraisal or optioneering phases of major capital projects.
• Experience developing engineering requirements and translating them into deliverable engineering solutions.
• Strong understanding of engineering governance and design assurance.
• Experience managing engineering scope, cost, schedule and technical risk.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior technical and programme stakeholders.
• Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered Engineer (or working towards).
• Membership of a recognised professional institution.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams through FEED activities across multiple projects.
• Define and mature engineering scope from initial concept through Gate 2.
• Develop engineering strategies aligned to programme and business objectives.
• Ensure engineering solutions are safe, legally compliant, proportionate and fit for purpose.
• Lead engineering integration across all engineering disciplines.
• Scope definition; Requirements management; Functional specification development; Engineering option development; Value Management; Optioneering; TRL assessments; Engineering substantiation; Delivery strategy development.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Regulated Industry Experience

Team Leadership

Education

Degree in Engineering

Chartered Engineer

Membership in a professional institution

Job description

Amentum is seeking an experienced FEED Area Engineering Manager to support the Design Services Alliance (DSA) at Sellafield. This role sits within the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase and leads multidisciplinary teams to develop technically robust and deliverable engineering solutions from conception through Gate 2.

This hybrid role requires strong governance, engineering leadership, and collaboration across safety, operations, and stakeholders to ensure maturity for detailed design and