Thermal Hydraulicist

**Your Impact**:
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**About the Opportunity**:
The Assurance, Technology and Regulation performance unit, is a critical part of the Technology and Consulting business within CMS-I. AT&R has been providing critical services to the Nuclear Industry for over 60 years.

Do you want to play a vital role in existing and new defence and civil nuclear programmes in the UK, and want to provide key control and instrumentation support to both defence and civil nuclear sectors? Then this is the opportunity for you.

Jacobs are seeking to recruit a Thermal-Hydraulicist to join our Nuclear, Science and Engineering (NSE) team in Birchwood, Cheshire

This role provides a diverse and exciting range of opportunities, undertaking Independent Nuclear Safety and Technical assessment to support the safe operation of all classes of UK submarines across the entire plant life cycle.

From initial concept design through to plant life extension and subsequent decommissioning, this work presents interesting and unique technical challenges and therefore requires a strong commitment to deliver robust safety assurance services to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in support of the UK’s defence requirements including it’s continuous at sea deterrent.

**Key responsibilities will include**:
Providing independent nuclear safety and technical assessment of documents relating to naval nuclear propulsion plant systems and performance
- presenting advice to relevant safety and technical committees.
- Representing Jacobs at safety and technical meetings with clients, propulsion plant designers and safety case authors.

**Here’s what you’ll need**:
You will have the following skills, attributes and experience.
- Degree or Post Graduate qualification in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline;
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and provide judgements on complex technical issues clearly and concisely, based on knowledge and understanding.
- Experience of undertaking thermal hydraulics calculations of Pressurised Water Reactors and/or performance calculations, including; faults, severe accident, loss of cooling and decay heat removal conditions;
- Experience of carrying out Independent Nuclear Safety Assessments.
- Familiar with modelling codes used within the naval nuclear propulsion or civil power generation programmes;
- You will be required to hold or have the ability to achieve full UK security clearance

**Our Culture**:
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