Senior 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 Senior Cryogenics Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the design of cryogenic systems for STEP, the UK’s prototype fusion powerplant. You will be responsible for the development of P&IDs and numerical models, heat load analysis and mass flow modelling . You will also be ensuring robust documentation is in place, 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 and working to best practices.
• Engaging with Industry and the wider cryogenics sector on innovative developments 
•  Supervising junior engineers or students. 
• Vendor management, including managing significant contracts. 
• Engagement with partnering organisations 
•  Preparing papers for journals and conferences, presenting at seminars and conferences 
• Other duties that are reasonable and commensurate with this role that may not be specifically referred to in this document 
• Budget responsibility of up to £250,000 

Essential Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent in Cryogenic, Mechanical or Process Engineering or equivalent STEM subject 
• Significant experience in cryogenics. This experience could be from a laboratory or an industrial setting 
• Excellent collaboration skills including  written, verbal, and interpersonal communication  
• A solid understanding of modern standards in Quality Assurance, Safety, Health and the Environment 
• Demonstrable ability to work and communicate with an multi-disciplinary team 
• Demonstrable understanding of modern project management tools and methodology 
• Proven capability in engineering analysis and a good working knowledge of engineering materials and their properties 
• Experience with relevant environmental factors such as plasmas, vacuum and transient magnetic fields 

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.