Process Engineer

Overview

In this role you will join a small team of process engineers to deliver design work within a regulated nuclear environment. You will collaborate with multi-discipline teams to assess effluent handling, sampling systems, and safety cases, ensuring alignment with existing safety documentation. You will contribute to project milestones, present designs at reviews, and support a culture of safety, innovation, and regulatory compliance. This is a hybrid position based in Warrington/Cumbria with clear opportunities to influence safety and process performance across medium/large-scale projects.

Pay / Benefits

• 8.5% Pension Contribution & Life Assurance
• Private Medical Scheme
• Employee Share Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes: Electrical Vehicles, Technology and Cycle to Work
• 18 Weeks Full Maternity Pay (+21w SMP)
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 28 after 5 years, 31 after 10)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a small team to deliver process design work to project schedules
• Regularly report progress to Project Management and Engineering Manager
• Coordinate with multi-discipline teams including non-engineering functions
• Gather information on existing effluent routes and safe discharge limits
• Assess flushing systems for new container types and identify required modifications
• Develop sampling systems for bulk pond conditions and location of releases
• Create radiological, environmental and non-nuclear safety cases for relevant hazards
• Present designs at assurance reviews with clients and technical committees
• Ensure designs fit within existing safety cases and identify any gaps

Key requirements

• Teamwork with process engineers and other disciplines
• Good communication skills
• Competent report writing
• Comfort with time and cost constraints
• Design/assessment of fluidic systems for radioactive liquors and effluent streams
• Understanding of sampling for hazardous liquids and safety assessment techniques (e.g., HAZOP)
• Production and checking of Basis of Design, Process Descriptions, Process Calculations, Process Data Sheets, Basis of Process Safety

• Strong communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Ability to work under pressure
• Fluidic system design for radioactive materials
• Radiological and environmental safety case development
• Hazard and operability (HAZOP) understanding

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