Senior CS&A Engineer

Amentum CMSI; England; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design and engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Senior CS&A Engineer to join their team. This role involves leading projects, conducting engineering calculations, and ensuring compliance with all necessary requirements. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in civil and structural design, managing project deliverables, and team leadership. This position offers opportunities to work on significant infrastructure projects at one of the most complex industrial sites.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Free medical cover

Family-friendly benefits

Professional development support

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in relevant project design work.
• General all-round civil and structural design experience.
• Experience managing project deliverables and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional input to projects ensuring quality and delivery.
• Perform engineering calculations and check junior staff's work.
• Coordinate CS&A design tasks and deliverables.

Skills

Civil and structural design experience

Project deliverables management

Static and seismic design of structures

Team leadership capability

Job description

Amentum will inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched‑funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work‑life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part‑time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity for a Senior CS&A Engineer

Amentum are the Design and Engineering partner for Sellafield under the Programme and Project Partners (PPP). This is a 20‑year arrangement to deliver £7bn of major projects. We are looking to recruit high‑value expertise from across regulated and comparable sectors to work in a collaborative environment. PPP is delivering major projects, site‑wide improvements and provision of supporting services.

We provide the front‑end design and engineering capability across the PPP portfolio. Being part of the PPP Team offers a unique opportunity to drive change and innovation in engineering, safety, and delivery solutions in one of the most complex industrial sites in the UK if not the world.

The role of the PPP is to help deliver a programme of nationally significant major infrastructure projects to the Sellafield site as quickly and safely as possible, creating new facilities that allow Sellafield to treat, manage and store waste safely for decades to come. Together, we are helping Sellafield to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.

The Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) Future State Programme is one of the most complex challenges facing the NDA in dealing with the UK’s nuclear legacy – managing the stockpile of separated civil plutonium.

The SNM Future State Programme will deliver capabilities to ensure the right material, is in the right package, in the right store to maintain the safe and secure storage of plutonium. To deliver the programme mission there are several tranches that must be delivered. The SNM Future Storage tranche will focus on providing additional modern standard, resilient storage capacity to store 100‑Year Packages until the final disposition solution is implemented.

For this new team, we are seeking a Senior CS&A Engineer.

Senior CS&A responsibilities will include:

• Lead functional input to own projects, including where relevant leading the input of other engineers, to ensure engineering delivery meets scope, time, cost and quality
• Carry out engineering calculations and check the work of more junior staff to deliver a quality functional input to projects
• Ensure that own work and that of more junior engineers on a project complies with all necessary corporate, departmental and legislative requirements and procedures, to guarantee that the necessary consistency and quality of delivery is maintained
• Specify and procure equipment to meet requirements
• Provide functional support and guidance to more junior staff to develop both them as individuals and the capability of the team as a whole
• Carry out commissioning activities at client site as required, to ensure successful engineering handover.
• Coordinate and deliver CS&A design tasks (designs, assessments, drawings, and reports), checking and approving the output.
• Undertake site inspections to confirm design scope and to develop design solutions.
• Produce design and assessment calculation packages, CS&A documents and inputting into multi‑discipline documents (e.g. NFRs, BoD, DJRs)

As a Senior CS&A Engineer you’ll need:

• Substantial experience in relevant project design work
• General all‑round civil and structural design experience required, with experience working on alterations and modifications to existing structures amongst other asset‑care type projects.
• Experience of managing project deliverables, working as part of a team and managing stakeholders.
• Experience required in the static and seismic design of concrete (to ACI 318), steel and masonry structures.
• Team leadership capability