Position: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Milton Park Oxfordshire or Birchwood Park, Warrington.
Arrangement: Permanent
Work arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

NUVIA UK's Technical Services & Consulting department is fast growing with hybrid opportunities available up and down the country. We're striving to create a multidisciplinary team to offer our clients the best range of talent.

BPSS clearance will be required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferable. 

Consulting Services provides a variety of specialist skills to support clients and other parts of the NUVIA business. It consists of around 30 technical specialists, engineers and project support to deliver high value advice or specific deliverables to clients and maintains NUVIA’s portfolio of radioactive transport containers.

NUVIA have a new vacancy for a permanent Mechanical Engineering Specialist who would grow into the field of Nuclear Waste Packages (Type B / IP). The primary objective of this role would be to deliver project work as a Mechanical Engineer, working towards a specialist in the field of engineering nuclear waste packages & the licensing of these packages. You would be joining our burgeoning team, within which you will build experience and design techniques and appreciate the whole life cycle of engineering consultancy projects.

Most of this is achieved through closely working with more senior colleagues and receiving day-to-day guidance in live projects of varying size and complexity across multiple client organisations. This will include opportunities to experience delivery phases from initial concept design through optioneering, detailed design, substantiation of designs, license applications to regulators, manufacturing of the waste packages across the UK, and supporting operational fleets.

As part of the team, you will gain the experience required to develop your skills and responsibilities for delivering and planning engineering tasks of increasing size /as your career progresses. The area of Engineering and Licensing (in particular, Licensing Assessment/Applications and Hand Calculations) is treated as a part of the formal design process and is also vital for achieving regulatory acceptance for our customers.

• You will interface with other engineering disciplines, project managers, production engineers, inspectors, nuclear safety and engineering analysis specialists.
• You will adhere to both NUVIA and client governance processes and deliver to these accordingly.
• The portfolio of projects has many waste packages in the manufacturing phase or which have been recently manufactured, therefore you get to see your hard work come to life!
• In addition, NUVIA can offer exposure and the opportunity to contribute to projects within other areas of the nuclear industry including decommissioning, new build, energy innovation and the MOD.

Position of the Specialist within the organisation:

• Reporting to Senior/Principal Engineers Specialists / Container Approvals Manager.
• Opportunities to develop towards managing a team of designers and / or design engineers.
• Interaction with engineers/QA of other areas in the business
• External Stakeholder engagement through the delivery process
• Supervises NUVIA support staff in delivery of work packages.

Occupational Skills and Knowledge:

Essential

• Mechanical Engineering (or similar) Degree, HNC/HND.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Use of CAD systems (e.g. Autodesk Inventor) for production of 3D models and 2D drawings.
• 1 year design experience.
• 2 years’ experience post education.
• Ability to work flexibly and to tight deadlines.
• A strong team player.

Desirable

• Experience of design within a highly regulated industry.
• Manufacturing / detail design experience.
• Small design team management/supervision.
• A full UK driving licence.
• Knowledge of Nuclear Transport Regulations or other highly regulated industry.