Senior Engineer, Reactor Island Layout & Systems

Jobtailor; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior engineer to lead the Reactor Island holistic layout from concept to detailed design, coordinating cross-disciplinary teams and ensuring alignment with safety, quality and commercial objectives.

You will drive design governance, stakeholder alignment and delivery strategies across civils, systems, architecture and manufacturing interfaces, enabling buildable, operable plant layouts for nuclear projects.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex engineering, layout, installation or integration programmes from concept to detailed design.
• Demonstrable systems engineering experience, including requirements management and gated design review processes.
• Experience leading teams, work packages or multidisciplinary engineering programmes.
• Experience planning, monitoring progress, managing risks and delivering milestones.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of the Reactor Island Holistic Layout.
• Ensure design solutions meet programme, safety, quality and commercial objectives.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop integrated, optimised and buildable reactor layouts.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across engineering disciplines.
• Support engineers through technical leadership, coaching and governance.
• Develop and maintain the overall Reactor Island layout strategy.
• Lead multidisciplinary Integrated Project Teams across Civils, Architecture, Systems, Mechanical Handling, Components, CAD, Human Factors, Operations, E3S, Supply Chain and Build Certainty.
• Drive holistic layout solutions through the gated design lifecycle from concept to detailed design.
• Optimise plant layouts using engineering decision-making, trade studies and DfX methodologies.
• Manage technical interfaces between systems, structures, components and operational requirements.
• Develop delivery strategies balancing buildability, maintainability, operability and programme requirements.
• Plan and coordinate layout activities against cost, quality and schedule commitments.
• Lead technical reviews, design assessments and governance activities.
• Monitor programme risks, lessons learned and engineering assumptions.
• Provide technical checking, assurance and approval activities.
• Support development of standards, processes and best practices for Reactor Island design.
• Build a collaborative and inclusive engineering environment.
• Travel to Rolls-Royce SMR offices and stakeholder locations as required.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Stakeholder Management

Multidisciplinary Leadership

Engineering Decision-Making

Trade Studies

Education

Degree in Engineering Discipline

Chartered Engineer Status

Tools

CAD

E3S

Human Factors

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a senior engineer to lead the Reactor Island holistic layout from concept to detailed design, coordinating cross-disciplinary teams and ensuring alignment with safety, quality and commercial objectives.

You will drive design governance, stakeholder alignment and delivery strategies across civils, systems, architecture and manufacturing interfaces, enabling buildable, operable plant layouts for nuclear projects.