Senior Containment Layout Engineer – Nuclear SMR

Rolls-Royce SMR Limited; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 12.5%

Benefits allowance

Pension 12%/employee 6%

Holidays 28 days

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Home office allowance

Job summary

Rolls-Royce SMR is recruiting a Senior Layout Engineer – Containment Block to lead the Containment Block layouts, installation assemblies and modularisation within the Reactor Island team. This role will influence how the plant is designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned across its lifecycle.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary activities, optimise layouts and installation methodologies in a constrained nuclear environment, and drive design maturity and safety compliance across the

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status or clear pathway towards professional registration.
• Experience developing complex layout and installation solutions, managing multidisciplinary interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Leading Containment Block layouts, installation assemblies and modularisation solutions meeting safety and operability requirements.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary activities across Systems, Components, Mechanical Handling, Civil, Structural, Architecture, Human Factors, Operations and Supply Chain.
• Developing and optimising plant layouts, equipment arrangements, cable routing, piping routes and HVAC systems in a nuclear environment.
• Driving technical decisions through concept development, trade‑offs and detailed design.
• Managing interfaces and resolving clashes to achieve design maturity on programme milestones.
• Developing manufacturing, installation and maintenance strategies for Rolls‑Royce SMR modular build philosophy.

Skills

Systems thinking

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

GDA processes

Job description

Rolls-Royce SMR is recruiting a Senior Layout Engineer – Containment Block to lead the Containment Block layouts, installation assemblies and modularisation within the Reactor Island team. This role will influence how the plant is designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned across its lifecycle.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary activities, optimise layouts and installation methodologies in a constrained nuclear environment, and drive design maturity and safety compliance across the