Graduate Engineering Analyst - Graduate Scheme 2025

The salary for this role is £32,729.

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

UKAEA’s two-year graduate scheme is split by 80% of your time developing both your general work-related skills and professional qualifications and 20% of your working time dedicated to graduate training and development.  Within the graduate training and development, there is a core suite of activities designed to develop your professional and business skills. Elements of this programme are flexible and can be tailored to your personal development needs and to those of your specific job role. 

The Role

The Modelling and Design Team provides design and analysis services for the Office of the Chief Engineer in support of the experimental facilities, MAST and JET, as well as the wider UKAEA in support of ITER, DEMO and STEP.

The purpose of the role is to carry out electro-magnetic/thermal/mechanical engineering design and analysis activities with a particular emphasis on tasks requiring expertise in the use of computer aided engineering (CAE) tools to simulate design functionality and qualify performance.  As this is a graduate/entry level role, the role holder is primarily responsible for delivering such packages of work with some level of supervision.

• Calculations - Use established calculation tools and classical methods to evaluate design concepts. 
• Code Writing - Undertake code testing and validation work for new analysis code modules. 
• Design Simulation - Create FE models of components and simple assemblies for single-physics analyses and use them to explore and optimise performance of design concepts. 
• Design Verification - Use calculation tools and FE analyses for functional verification of design concepts against defined load specifications. 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Documentation - Complete process documents and write technical reports. 
• Expertise - Become familiar with the routine analyses required for design of Fusion Engineering Systems. 
• Checking - Work with checkers to ensure use of appropriate methods and models. 
• Training - Work with trainers to gain knowledge of UKAEA methods and processes. 
• Supervising - Work with supervisors to develop required skills. 
• Processes - Ensure own work is completed in accordance with UKAEA processes. 
• Management - Manage small work packages for self and work with assigned CAD designers or technicians. 
• Testing - Potential participation in experiments and testing campaign.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline 

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.