Senior Stress Engineer (Permanent)

ZipRecruiter; Etwall CP; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company is seeking an experienced Senior Stress Engineer to engage in integrity assessments on nuclear projects in Derby. The ideal candidate will have significant finite element analysis skills and a background in the nuclear sector. You'll be joining a dynamic team focused on ensuring quality and business targets, with opportunities for career progression and participation in exciting global projects.

Benefits

Employee assistance programs

Discount vouchers for events and health services

Dynamic career management policies

Qualifications

• Experience in the nuclear industry or transferable skills from other disciplines.
• Demonstrable expertise in fatigue, fracture, thermal, and structural stress assessments.
• Knowledge of structural integrity and defect tolerance assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide integrity substantiation using Finite Element methods.
• Assist in calculation reviews and proposal writing.
• Work within man-hour budgets for assigned tasks.

Skills

Finite Element analysis

Python scripting

Structural integrity assessments

Fatigue analysis

Tools

ABAQUS

CRACKEN

Job description

Job Description

Westlakes Recruit is currently recruiting for an experienced senior stress engineer to be engaged on a permanent basis in Derby. Our client's stress capability is looking for enthusiastic Senior Stress Engineers to join us. You will report to the Stress Technical Lead and work in an embedded team based at the client's site in Derby.

Responsibilities include:

1. Providing integrity substantiation using Finite Element methods and/or code assessment.
2. Assisting in calculation reviews.
3. Modeling experience.
4. Adhering to Assystem quality system.
5. Working within man-hour budgets for assigned tasks.
6. Assisting in proposal writing and related bidding activities if required.

Successful candidates will be expected to help achieve business targets by ensuring their analysis work meets quality, time, and cost requirements.

Why join the community of Switchers?

• The Group is ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.
• Dynamic career management policies to enable progression across various business lines.
• Opportunities to work on exciting, global projects.
• Access to employee assistance programs, including mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources, and a confidential support line 24/7.
• Discount vouchers for days out, restaurants, eye tests, glasses, cycle-to-work schemes, and free flu jabs.

Qualifications:

• Nuclear industry experience (preferably defence), but transferable skills from other disciplines are accepted.
• Demonstrable expertise in fatigue, fracture, thermal, and structural stress assessments using finite element analysis.
• Finite Element analysis experience in ABAQUS (explicit/implicit) and ABAQUS/CAE or equivalent pre/post-processor (desirable).
• Knowledge of structural integrity & defect tolerance assessments.
• Python scripting in ABAQUS environment (desirable).
• Crack assessment experience (CRACKEN or alternative).
• Fatigue crack growth & initiation experience (desirable).
• Familiarity with the Gated review process.

Why We're Different:

Westlakes Recruit is a people solutions business that understands the complexities of nuclear and the importance of our clients' mission-critical objectives. We are smarter, faster, and more agile, with a laser focus on nuclear sector knowledge.

We develop nuclear talent pools proactively. We do Nuclear. We only do Nuclear.

Powering a Diverse Nuclear Future:

As an equal opportunities employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.