Process Engineer

NUVIA; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension & Life Assurance

Private Medical Scheme

Employee Share Scheme

Salary Sacrifice EVs/Cycle to Work

Maternity Pay

Annual Leave Buy/Sell

Union Partnerships

Development Support

Long Service Awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

NUVIA UK is seeking a Process Engineer to join the Technical Services & Consulting team in Warrington. You will work with a small team to deliver process designs on medium/large-scale projects, focusing on effluent handling, sampling systems, and safety cases in a highly regulated environment.

The role requires a Masters or Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering, strong communication and report-writing skills, and the ability to work under time and cost constraints, with hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Strong communication and report-writing abilities.
• Experience designing/assessing fluidic systems for hazardous liquids.
• Familiarity with safety case development (BoPS) and nuclear safety considerations.
• Ability to work under time and cost constraints on medium/large-scale projects.
• Working with diverse engineering disciplines and client processes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver items against project schedule within a small team of process engineers, reporting to client process lead.
• Regularly report progress to Project Management and Engineering Manager.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary design team and non-engineering functions.
• Gather information on effluent routes and establish safe discharge limits with coordinators.
• Assess existing flushing systems and propose modifications or replacements as needed.
• Develop sampling systems for bulk pond and container sampling.

Skills

Communication skills

Report writing

Time & cost management

Fluidic systems design

Hazard analysis (HAZOP)

Nuclear safety

Project coordination

Team collaboration

Education

Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering

Job description

Arrangement

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.

Position

Process Engineer

Reference

2658

Location

Warrington / Cumbria

Travel

Hybrid

BPSS Clearance

BPSS clearance will be required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferrable.

Principal Accountabilities

• Working in a small team of process engineers to deliver the items listed above against the project schedule, reporting to client process lead.
• Regular reporting on process team progress to Project Management and Engineering Manager.
• Working closely with a multi-discipline design team, including other engineering disciplines as well as non-engineering and non-design functions (Project Management, Programme Delivery, Technical Support Safety Assessors, Plant Side Engineering, Plant Operations, Commissioning, etc.).
• Information gathering about existing effluent routes and their capabilities/compatibilities; engagement with effluent coordinators to identify safe discharge limits and agree required arrangements to be in place to allow discharges.
• Assessment of existing flushing system for use with a new container type, including pressure and flow characteristics, identifying potential issues and modifications where required, up to and including full replacement.
• Development of a range of sampling systems for bulk pond condition, individual container sampling, and an intermediate level to enable location of activity releases within a very large pond.
• Development of radiological, environmental and non-nuclear safety cases for relevant hazards; working in a highly regulated environment with an emphasis on nuclear safety. Working within existing safety cases and ensuring that design fits within those requirements and identifying if this is not achievable. Presentation of design at regular assurance reviews with process design intelligent customer, as well as at technical committee and management.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• Working with teams of process engineers, other engineering disciplines and non-engineering disciplines in delivering process designs on medium/large-scale projects.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with other team members / disciplines.
• Competent report writing skills: clearly and concisely reporting findings.
• Comfortable working under time and cost constraints.
• Designing/assessing fluidic systems to transfer radioactive liquors and effluent streams.
• Understanding of technologies to enable taking and handling of samples of hazardous liquids and safety assessment techniques (e.g., HAZOP).
• Production and checking of: Basis of Design, Process Description, Feed and Effluent Descriptions, Process Calculations (fluidics), Process Data Sheets, Basis of Process Safety (BoPS).
• Masters/ Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering.
• Working with and adherence to client processes and procedures, in particular checking and approval procedures.
• Nuclear safety case development and provision of nuclear substantiation.

Employee Staff Benefits

• 8.5% Pension Contribution & Life Assurance.
• Private Medical Scheme.
• Employee Share Scheme.
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes: Electrical Vehicles, Technology and Cycle to Work.
• 18 Weeks Full Maternity Pay (plus 21w SMP).
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service, 31 days after 10 years’ service).
• Option to buy, sell and carry over up to 5 days annual leave per year.
• In partnership with trade unions.
• Personal Development & Further Education Support.
• Long Service & Recognition Awards.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme.

Equal Opportunities

Nuvia UK is committed towards equality in employment.