Senior Consultant

**Location**: Warrington, GB
**Category**: Engineering
**Job ID**: EST00034J

**Your Impact**:
We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Consultant at our Birchwood laboratory facilities who has knowledge and experience of mechanical testing and the mindset to develop new test methods/programmes. Our customers come from a wide range of industries, predominantly from the nuclear and conventional power generation sectors, but also aerospace and automotive.

In MSSI, we are developing advanced mechanical testing methods to generate data that ultimately inform advanced structural integrity assessment methods. These methods are required to support the safe operation of high integrity components, in highly regulated industries. Achieving our objectives requires the support of motivated and competent engineers and scientists. We are seeking driven individuals who are inspired by challenge, are motivated by continuous learning and who strive to make a societal impact through their work.

This role will provide the opportunity to give technical oversight of the development of novel mechanical testing facilities and ultimately, the individual in this role will be expected to manage the development and subsequent use these facilities to produce important test data.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Managing a R&D programme - from conception and experimental design through to delivery of verified test results and reports
- Undertake a range of technical activities including but not limited to the operation of complex mechanical testing equipment.
- Work with programme planers and engineers to deliver test facility development and mechanical test results on time and to budget.
- Comply with existing internal and where applicable, external controls/procedures (e.g. HS&E regulations, quality assurance procedures, international standards, working instructions)
- Effective communication of complex technical concepts to a range of audiences including the production of scientific/technical reports
- Effective and frequent communications with internal and external stakeholders
- Drive continuous improvement practices across the full gamut of activities - specifically testing technologies, health and safety management and quality assurance processes.

**Here’s what you’ll need**:

- Extensive experience of working in a similar highly regulated industry eg. Aerospace, nuclear, oil/gas
- A degree in a materials science and/or engineering, mechanical engineering, or physical sciences.
- A Chartered member/working towards chartership of a relevant institution.
- An appreciation of mechanical design principals
- An appreciation pressure systems design and operation.
- Working knowledge of mechanical testing and/or structural integrity assessment methods with a drive to learn more about both.
- Appreciation of materials science and materials characterisation techniques.
- Experience working in highly regulated industry sectors.
- Good understanding of safe working practices in a laboratory environment.
- Good appreciation of quality control systems adopted in mechanical testing laboratories.
- Experienced with the analysis and presentation of scientific data - familiarity with programming languages typically used in scientific analysis (for example, python) would be beneficial.
- A flexible approach to working and a willingness to be multidisciplinary.

**Our Culture**:
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people