Graduate Process Engineer - 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.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As a Graduate Process Engineer in the Integrated Engineering Division, you will play a pivotal role in performing a variety of process engineering tasks designed to provide experience & familiarization with fusion systems, practices, and programs within the organisation. The role holder will be expected to manage their own development continuously working towards building their knowledge & skills.

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 20% 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

Accountable for process engineering deliverables and activities across a wide range of projects including:

• Requirements capture and management over project lifecycle
• Creation, review and update of:
  • Heat and Mass Balance Calculations
  • Block Flow Diagrams
  • Process Flow Diagrams
  • Process and Instrumentation Diagrams
• Process Simulations
• HAZID & HAZOPs
• Process Design Basis.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Accountable for originating and progressing designs, from concept through to detailed design on enhancement programs for UKAEA’s facilities and systems as well as for future fusion devices.
• Take an active role in producing technical specifications and tender documentation for a wide range of fusion sub-systems and components.
• Work effectively to maximise design performance within written design requirements and/or design brief for gas and liquid distribution systems.
• Take an active role in producing technical specifications and tender documentation for a wide range of fusion sub-systems and components.
• Design and Concept Studies: Work effectively to maximise design performance within written design requirements and/or design brief for gas and liquid distribution systems. Where design requirements are undefined, work with staff from other disciplines to determine design requirements sufficient to progress the design study.
• Produce technical reports, departmental notes and journal / conference papers and delivering presentations where relevant.
• Coordinate, instruct and enable staff in execution of project work.
• The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties that are reasonable and commensurate with this role that may not be specifically referred to in this document.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or related discipline as a minimum. 
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of process engineering principles and how they a can be applied, relating them to previous work experience where applicable. 

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.