Graduate Mechanical Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

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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

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