Senior Layout Integration Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead integrated plant layouts for Fusion and Modular Nuclear programs, acting as the technical focal point across plant areas. You’ll drive multidisciplinary coordination, resolve interfaces, and advance design maturity through studies, reviews and key decisions. You will own layout work packages, ensuring quality, integration and delivery while collaborating with cross-functional teams. This is a chance to shape critical nuclear projects and contribute to global energy innovation in a dynamic environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
• 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
• Professional fees reimbursed
• Flexible working
• Employee referral scheme

Responsibilities

• Lead plant layout development from concept through detailed design
• Develop equipment, piping, cable tray, access and maintenance layouts
• Lead piping routing studies and layout optimisation
• Own delivery of assigned layout work packages and plant areas
• Manage requirements, assumptions, constraints and interfaces across scope
• Coordinate interfaces between systems, buildings, structures and supporting infrastructure
• Facilitate model reviews, layout reviews and multidisciplinary workshops
• Lead clash detection and interface management
• Support Human Factors, Fire, Architectural and Civil & Structural integration
• Ensure layouts satisfy system, operational, safety, construction and maintenance requirements
• Lead multidisciplinary activities to resolve requirements conflicts and integration challenges
• Author technical reports, optioneering studies, design philosophies and recommendations
• Present and defend technical recommendations to stakeholders
• Support modularisation, transportation, lifting and construction assessments
• Mentor engineers and designers
• Support development of layout standards, methodologies and best practice

Key requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent industrial experience
• Significant experience in plant layout, piping layout, plant integration or multidisciplinary engineering delivery
• Experience leading plant area development and multidisciplinary coordination
• Experience facilitating design reviews, model reviews and technical workshops
• Experience using CAD/BIM platforms: E3D, PDMS, Plant 3D, Siemens NX, Revit, Inventor or similar
• Experience using Navisworks or equivalent clash detection software
• Strong understanding of equipment arrangement, piping layout, constructability and plant integration
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, requirements management and interface management
• Experience supporting gated design review processes and technical governance
• Strong report writing, presentation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to author, defend and implement technical recommendations
• SC Clearance or capable of achieving it
• Desirable: nuclear, fusion, SMR or AMR sector experience
• Desirable: experience leading major work packages or plant areas
• Desirable: modularisation and construction studies

• stakeholder engagement
• communication
• mentoring and leadership
• E3D
• PDMS
• Plant 3D

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