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Mechanical Transport Packaging Specialist

2 months ago


Harwell, United Kingdom VINCI Full time

A vacancy has arisen for a permanent Senior Specialist with specialist experience in the field of Nuclear Transport Packaging, within the team based mostly in our Harwell office. We are looking to recruit specialists with a passion for engineering to join our growing skilled team.

Senior Specialist (Transport Packaging) Role Overview:
The Senior Specialist is principally a hands-on design and licensing/assessment documentation based role with a degree of team leadership. The Senior Specialist can be responsible for delivering a package of work within a project. You will have frequent liaison with other disciplines in the engineering team, inspectors, sites and within the client. Senior Specialists are the main interface between Container Approvals Manager and hands-on design & licensing engineers.

Senior Specialists at Nuvia are expected to be in the established stages of their career development but with a good number of years delivering engineering and licensing solutions.

Key responsibilities of a Nuvia Senior Specialist:

- Development of designs to satisfy technical specifications and requirements.
- Prepare supporting design calculations to substantiation of designs.
- Check design calculations of designers and other engineers within the team.
- Actively contribute to design & safety reviews (Risk Assessments & HAZOP’s) from technical standpoint.
- Preparation of technical specifications in liaison with client and project team.
- Produce design documentation throughout the design process including scope of works, method statements, risk assessments, technical files and other technical documentation to comply with design standards, safety legislation/regulatory requirements and those of the client.
- Prepare installation, commissioning and operating documents.
- Planning & allocation of workload to members of design team in order to deliver packages of work.
- Management of sub-contractors providing niche services to the design.
- Responsible for managing the quality of the output of their team or their own deliverables.
- Responsible for adherence to internal procedures and external codes, standards and directives.
- Possible responsible for managing project packages that are sub-contracted to third parties.
- Creating designs that are compliant with safety regulations (e.g. CDM and CE marking).
- Ensure safety of working environment via design.

Position of the Senior Specialist within the organisation:

- Reporting to Container Approvals Manager, Managing Consultant
- Often managing a small team of specialists or design engineers.
- Interaction with engineers and specialists of other disciplines, both internal and external.
- Supervises Nuvia support staff in delivery of work packages.

Ideally you will have the following qualifications, skills, experience and attributes

Essential:

- Delivered nuclear waste package documentation/designs to IAEA SSR-6
- A recognised engineering qualification such as HNC / HND / Degree.
- >5 Years’ experience in the role of design in a nuclear environment, or other equivalent highly regulated industry.
- Good knowledge of detail design and detailed drawing production within a high tech industry environment.
- Ability to working to tight deadlines & a strong team player attitude.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering design solutions.
- Concept through to commissioning experience (full lifecycle).
- Good understanding of Statutory and safety Regulations and their appropriate utilisation.
- Proven track record within a project environment with strong organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Good customer/client liaison skills and good commercial awareness.
- Demonstrable competence gained in a design delivery position.
- Knowledge of generic mechanical principle such as forces, stresses, materials selection & design principles.

For this specific opportunity, the following attributes are desirable:

- Assisting the Container Approvals Manager or Nominated engineer to deliver a concept/detail design of transport package, and ensuring design intent implemented at manufacturer.
- Checking of Concept and Manufacturing drawings.
- Production of and checking of structural calculations to recognized codes such as ISO 13001, ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, BS 2573, Eurocode, PD5500.
- Production of and checking of technical documentation including operating, handling and maintenance instructions.
- Client interaction through weekly dial ins and regular face to face meetings.
- Willing to travel to within the UK and potentially internationally to attend client design meetings and to manufacturer’s site.
- Membership of a relevant Institution (e.g. IMechE; IET; IED). Otherwise Nuvia have a program in place to mentor in order to achieve chartership.

Beneficial experience
- Worked within a manufacturing environment, design, testing and commissioning of bespoke equipment within a regulated industry.
- Production of Manufacturing drawings.
- Witness testi


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