Senior Mechanical Stress Engineer

Job description

A vacancy has arisen for a Senior Stress Engineer within the Analysis Team based at either our Risley (Warrington), or Milton Park (Abingdon) offices. We are looking for a focused, enthusiastic and skilled Senior Engineer to join the Analysis Team and to integrate with project design teams as required. You will be delivering finite element solutions and manual calculations to support design and installation consultancy projects for internal and external clients.

Senior Stress Engineers are responsible for a complete package of work, normally in the form of a Calculation or FE Analysis report.  You may be responsible for the checking and approval of deliverables as well as ensuring that industry standards and quality procedures are met. Safety in design is Nuvia’s highest priority and the Senior Engineer is a fundamental role in achieving this.

Reporting into: Analysis Team Leader 

Key Responsibilities:

• Carrying out FE analysis and hand calculations for consultancy projects for the substantiation of designs.
• Supervise colleagues and coordinate small teams, depending on experience, and be responsible for the output of others.
• Creating analysis reports, technical requirements, plans and estimates.
• Ensure tasks are carried out to the required scope and budget constraints.
• Checking calculations and analysis by other Engineers.
• Developing Junior Engineers or subcontractors through task supervision.
   

Position of Senior Engineers within the organisation:

• Reporting to Principal Engineers or Engineering Managers.
• Responsible for defining and managing quality, progress and cost of the work undertaken.
• Regularly interacts with clients and managers of other engineering disciplines.

Desired profile

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential:

• A passion for engineering and problem solving, with an excellent grasp of mechanical concepts and all types of loading, stress and failure.
• Expertise in hand and FEA calculations and either ANSYS, CAESAR II, LS-DYNA, Hyperworks, or Staad Pro/Robot.
• Understanding of Industry codes and standards.
• Demonstrable performance in technical leadership, delivery within time and budget constraints, rigour and commitment to customer requirements, desire to improve our business, development/supervision of other Engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing roles, to present results and formal analysis reports, adapting styles as appropriate.
• Aptitude for working creatively within multi-disciplinary project teams, integrating stress analysis into the design process.
• First or upper second-class degree in a relevant mechanical subject.
   

Desirable:

• Experience in the nuclear sector.
• Experience of wider design process, ability to develop technical deliverables such as drawings and specs outside of analysis work, with broad experience of requirements, drawing production, materials and manufacturing methods.
• Understanding of Inventor & AutoCAD of general 3D design tools.
• Knowledge analytical principles and methods related to Dynamic loading and response, Fatigue & Fracture, Seismic, Blast, Thermal or Fluids.
• Ability to apply the following Industry Standards: Eurocodes, BS 5950, BS EN 13001, BS 2573, ASME III & VIII, BS EN 13480, ANSI B31.3 or B31.1
• CEng / Member of a relevant institution (IMechE or IET).

About NUVIA UK

NUVIA est une branche de VINCI, plus grand groupe intégré de concessions et BTP du monde. NUVIA est plus particulièrement l'entité nucléaire du Groupe VINCI et est impliqué dans le cycle de vie tout entier des installations nucléaires, du New Build au démantèlement, en passant par la maintenance et l'exploitation.

NUVIA est en croissance constante, avec plus de 2700 salariés dans le monde. En moyenne, 100 hommes et femmes nous rejoignent chaque année. Maintenant, plus que jamais, nous recherchons de nouveaux talents pour soutenir la croissance du groupe.