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Role: Senior Engineer
Sector: Nuclear
Location: Thurso, Scotland
Start Date: October / November 2025
Duration: Approx. 12-Months
Rates: £22.73 to £39.03 Hourly Rate D.O.E PAYE
Clearance: Background Checks, Right to Work in the UK
Job Description
A vacancy has arisen within the Reactors engineering team for a senior Engineer (Process or Electrical Controls and Instrumentation (E,C&I) discipline, this is a temporary role for 12 months. The purpose of the post is to manage and deliver the engineering process and the job holder will provide technical oversight and engineering quality.
Hear from the Hiring Manager:
The role will lead a multi-disciplinary design team for an alkali metal treatment project. The successful candidate will be a Senior engineer with extensive experience in leading a multi-disciplinary design for technically complex projects, providing technical leadership, focused on ensuring timely and high quality deliverables.
Responsibilities:
Control and develop technical engineering strategies, plans and procedures
Deliver the engineering design package and engineering substantiation for an alkali metal treatment project
Develop and execute an engineering and safety case delivery strategy, optimising plans to respond to changes when necessary
Lead a multi-disciplinary team of engineers
Apply health, safety, environmental and waste management processes with engineering activities taking advice where necessary from appropriate specialists
Validate the completion of activities to ensure compliance with procedures, legislation and quality standards
Liaise effectively with regulators and stakeholders on specific projects
Design and evaluate the technical governance of projects
Undertake project governance roles as required
Establish and maintain Design Authority arrangements
Identify resource requirements to deliver engineering tasks
Develop an effective technical organisation to manage fit for purpose engineering design and safety project delivery in support of the Site Performance Plan
Manage the preparation, approval and issue of technical specifications
Support the project in the delivery of projects/programmes of work and sanction approvals
Identify, validate and approve engineering solutions for projects
Perform the responsibilities of Authorisations relevant to post
Manage client staff as a Line Manager
Aptitudes and Experience:
Degree in engineering or equivalent: a process, electrical or controls system degree would be preferred
Extensive experience in leading a multi-disciplinary design for technically complex projects
Extensive experience in engineering
Strong technical leadership
Experience in engineering substantiation
Previous experience and the ability to demonstrate a strong understanding of configuration management
Demonstrable practical and theoretical problem solving ability
Undertake responsible engineer duties
Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
The ability to communicate effectively with staff/contractors at all levels is essential
Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
Self-motivated and assertive
Ability to apply engineering processes to achieve engineering solutions
Post specific capability analysis number 9 Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy
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