Senior Decommissioning & Dismantling Engineer

On behalf of our Client, we are recruiting for a Senior Decommissioning & Dismantling Engineer

Within the Decommissioning and Dismantling (D&D) discipline, you will participate in core D&D engineering tasks and activities, ranging from decommissioning planning, design and waste handling studies to dismantling, demolition and delicensing tasks.

The four core pillars of the D&D discipline are:

• Retrievals
• POCO
• Investigations and Characterisations
• Dismantling and Demolition

You will intervene throughout the full life cycle of decommissioning projects: Feasibility, Preliminary Design Stage, Detail Design Stage, Construction/Commissioning. You will be responsible for delivering innovative engineering solutions to decommissioning challenges both across the UK and in an international setting.

As a Senior Engineer, you will also have the opportunity/responsibility of being a technical lead for projects and discrete packages of work. This will involve interfacing with the Client and coaching/leading more junior members of the team in delivering technical work.

• Minimum of 5 years professional engineering/technical specialist experience. 
• BSc/MSc or BEng/MEng in a relevant nuclear engineering, decommissioning, waste management or engineering (preferably with a specialist in nuclear) field. 
• Experience in nuclear decommissioning or waste management projects OR in the field of nuclear operations / nuclear power generation OR translatable experience in a similarly highly regulated industry.
• Member of a professional body is desirable.
• Chartership is desirable.

• Ability to confidently liaise with external stakeholders and team members, both oral and written. 
• Ability to independently seek out or develop one’s own answer to challenging technical questions.
• Ability to organise one’s own time and the time of others to ensure internal / external deadlines are achieved and Client expectations are exceeded.
• Desire for self-development; to learn and develop within the role.

The successful candidate must, by the start of employment, have permission to work in the UK, and be willing to undergo a security vetting process. Offers of employment will be subject to relevant security clearance being granted. 

Travel to other offices and client sites may be necessary. You should be willing to work flexibly to accommodate project and client requirements.