Cryogenics Engineer

This role can be based at can any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Cryogenics Engineer, you will play an important role in designing cryogenic systems for STEP, the UK’s prototype fusion powerplant. You will participate in the process and equipment selection and development of P&IDs, heat and mass balances and numerical modelling supporting documentation, including technical notes and reports.  

Additional Responsibilities:

• Selection of design standards and validating designs against those standards, by computation or experimentation 
• Carrying out analysis and validating analysis by others 
• Ensuring safety requirements are met 
• Engaging with Industry and the wider cryogenics sector on innovative developments 
• Supervising junior engineers or students. 
• Vendor management 
• Engagement with partnering organisations 
• Other duties that are reasonable and commensurate with this role that may not be specifically referred to in this document 
• Budget responsibility for up to £100,000 

Essential Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent in Mechanical or Process Engineering or equivalent STEM subject 
• Some relevant experience in cryogenics or an adjacent field such as process engineering. This experience could be from a laboratory or an industrial setting 
• Ability to perform exploratory design calculations using first principles 
• Proven capability in engineering analysis and a good working knowledge of engineering materials and their properties 
• Experience with relevant environmental factors such as high pressures, vacuum and transient magnetic fields. 
• Good communication and technical writing skills 

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.