Process Engineer

Overview

In this role you will contribute to delivering process designs for nuclear projects within a multidisciplinary team. You’ll work to tight schedules, collaborating with engineers and non-engineering staff to ensure safety, compliance, and successful project delivery. Your work will span effluent handling, sampling system development, and safety case development in a regulated nuclear environment. This position offers challenging problems, cross-functional collaboration, and the chance to influence nuclear safety and operational performance.

Pay / Benefits

• 8.5% Pension Contribution & Life Assurance
• Private Medical Scheme
• Employee Share Scheme
• Salary sacrifice schemes (EV, Cycle to Work)
• 18 weeks full maternity pay
• 25 days holiday (rising with service)

Responsibilities

• Work in a small team of process engineers to meet project schedule and report to the client process lead
• Provide regular progress updates to Project Management and Engineering Manager
• Collaborate with a multi-discipline design team across engineering and non-engineering functions
• Gather information on existing effluent routes and engage with effluent coordinators to define safe discharge limits
• Assess the current flushing system for a new container type, identify issues, and implement modifications or replacement
• Develop sampling systems for bulk pond conditions, container sampling, and intermediate locations for activity releases
• Create radiological, environmental and non-nuclear safety cases for relevant hazards within a regulated environment
• Ensure designs fit within existing safety cases and present designs at assurance reviews to stakeholders

Key requirements

• Experience delivering process designs on medium/large-scale projects in a team setting
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines
• Clear report writing to document findings
• Ability to work under time and cost constraints
• Designing/assessing fluidic systems for transferring radioactive liquids and effluents
• Knowledge of sampling technologies for hazardous liquids and safety assessment techniques (e.g., HAZOP)
• Producing and checking Basis of Design, Process Description, Feed/Effluent Descriptions, Process Calculations, Process Data Sheets, BoPS
• Nuclear safety case development and nuclear substantiation
• Adherence to client processes and approval procedures
• Bachelor in Chemical Engineering

• Strong communication
• Team collaboration
• Structured report writing
• Fluidic system design for radioactive/hazardous liquids
• HAZOP and safety assessment techniques
• Development of safety cases and BoPS documentation

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