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Amentum

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Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join their Energy business, supporting the UK's nuclear fleet and modular reactor developments. The successful candidate will work in a dynamic environment, delivering engineering solutions and engaging with diverse stakeholders to maintain high safety and quality standards. With a commitment to safety and diversity, Amentum offers a competitive benefits package, including flexible working arrangements and support for professional development.

Benefits

Free medical cover

Enhanced parental leave pay

Support for professional development

Paid volunteering time

Qualifications

Degree qualified Mechanical Engineer or relevant experience through apprenticeship.
Experience in civil, nuclear or regulated industries.
Knowledge of ASME standards.

Responsibilities

Deliver complex engineering solutions on various projects.
Contribute to project lifecycle from bid to commissioning.
Manage client relationships to create new business opportunities.

Skills

Project Delivery

Engineering Design

Technical Problem Solving

Stakeholder Engagement

System Analysis

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

IMechE Chartership (or working towards)

Amentum Tyne And Wear, England, United Kingdom

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W e’ll 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.

About the Opportunity:

Amentum is currently recruiting for Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our Energy business.

The department is entering an exciting phase of opportunity by supporting our key client’s UK nuclear fleet through a business transformation, and by supporting new small modular reactor developers. Our work is varied, covering New Build, Generation, Life Extension, and Defueling, and our capabilities are in demand across the nuclear sector.

The successful candidate must be highly motivated and proactive and looking to develop their technical capabilities.

Centre to the success of the role will be your people skills, building effective relationships and interacting with multiple internal and external stakeholders in multiple locations.

This post is for those with experience of working within the civil, nuclear or other highly regulated industries. Candidates will be familiar with the requirements of working in a regulated environment with providing engineering support, you will deliver work to high HSSE standards in compliance to HSSE regulations.

The role offers good variety of work and opportunities to become involved in reviewing design/design substantiation, production of calculations, providing advice on wide ranging technical issues and queries and supporting refurbishment/modification projects to extend life of plant & equipment.

Your role will be to deliver complex engineering solutions to time, cost and quality on projects of varying sizes.

This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Warrington, Gloucester, Bristol or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we’re happy to consider flexible working patterns.

Key responsibilities will be:

Contribute to project delivery teams across the project lifecycle from bid generation, through concept and detailed design development to installation and commissioning
Working within integrated multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high profile projects
Take ownership of technical challenges, develop a strategy and implement the solution through engagement with internal and external stakeholders
Produce and review design deliverables (assumption notes, technical specifications and calculation notes, technical reports, etc)
Built and manage client relationships and leverage those relationships to deliver continued opportunities and new business leads
Demonstrate knowledge of the practical aspects of implementing engineering designs and understand the use of standards and compliance with regulatory requirements in an engineering environment
Simplify complex problems and build and maintain valuable relationships
Degree qualified Mechanical engineer (or accomplished engineer through apprentice route with relevant expertise) Chartered or Incorporated member (or working towards Chartership) of IMechE or equivalent
Knowledge of and ability to apply standards and regulations related to one of the technical disciplines
Experience of design and/or design substantiation
Demonstrable experience in one or more of the following technical disciplines: Pressure Vessels, Pipework (designed to ASME code)
Proven history of system analysis which leads to making recommendations of how a system is performing and where improvements can be made
Knowledge of Civil nuclear plant systems, structures and component and associated design and assessment guidelines a distinct advantage
Self-motivated, with an ability and desire to work collaboratively with other organisations to create new opportunities
Able to think innovatively and solve complex problems

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity.

We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team .

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