Equipment Lifetime / Qualification Engineer - Hinkley Point C

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Are you ready to apply your engineering judgement to some of the most important technical challenges on the Hinkley Point C project?

We are looking for an experienced and outcome-focussed engineer to support the HPC Equipment Lifetime team and help accelerate effective collaboration with DT. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong qualification knowledge, a practical problem-solving mindset, and the confidence to lead technical discussions on complex issues.

The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting equipment lifetime topics, qualification activities and RD engagement, helping to ensure that technical issues are progressed efficiently, risks are understood, and decisions are made using robust engineering evidence.

Why Join Us?

• Make a real impact: Support key technical decisions that underpin the safe and effective delivery of HPC.
• Work on complex engineering challenges: Help resolve issues across equipment lifetime, qualification and design interface topics.
• Collaborate across organisations: Work closely with the Equipment Lifetime team, DT, engineering teams and other project stakeholders.
• Develop your UK nuclear experience: Build your understanding of the UK nuclear context, safety case expectations and project delivery environment.
• Be part of a delivery-focussed team: Join a team that values clear thinking, practical solutions, technical integrity and collaboration.

The Role;

• Support the HPC Equipment Lifetime team in the resolution of complex technical issues relating to equipment lifetime, qualification and associated design topics.
• Act as an effective interface between the Equipment Lifetime team and DT, helping to improve collaboration, clarify expectations and accelerate issue resolution.
• Use knowledge of the qualification process to support the development, review and closure of technical positions, qualification deliverables and supporting evidence.
• Apply understanding of the qualification role in the UK safety case context to ensure that qualification responsibilities, technical inputs and decision routes are clearly understood and effectively managed.
• Lead or support technical discussions where multiple stakeholders are involved, ensuring that issues are framed clearly and progressed towards practical outcomes.
• Review technical evidence, identify gaps or inconsistencies, and work with relevant teams to define proportionate and achievable resolution plans.
• Support decision-making on complex technical issues, balancing engineering evidence, project priorities, safety case expectations and delivery constraints.
• Prepare clear summaries of complex technical topics for senior stakeholders, including key facts, risks, options, recommendations and required decisions.
• Challenge assumptions and opinions constructively, using engineering data and technical evidence to support robust conclusions.
• Promote a problem-solving culture, helping the team move from issue identification to agreed actions and closure.
• Contribute to the prioritisation of equipment lifetime and qualification topics, ensuring that effort is focussed on the areas of greatest technical or delivery risk.
• Work collaboratively with engineering, project, safety case and delivery teams to ensure that technical positions are understood and aligned.
• Support the production of briefings, reports, meeting notes and decision papers in professional English.
• Help maintain clear visibility of technical issues, actions, owners and due dates, supporting effective governance and escalation where required.

Requirements of the role;

• Experience working in DT or a closely related nuclear engineering environment.
• Good knowledge of the equipment qualification process, including the purpose of qualification evidence and the importance of demonstrating compliance with project and safety case requirements.
• Knowledge of the qualification role in the UK safety case context and how it contributes to the management, review and resolution of qualification topics.
• Strong engineering judgement, with the confidence to lead technical discussions and make or recommend decisions on complex issues.
• A practical, outcome-focussed mindset, with the ability to identify the real issue, define options and drive progress towards resolution.
• Ability to understand and summarise complex technical issues for senior stakeholders, including presenting risks, options and recommendations clearly.
• Comfortable working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural project environment, with the ability to build effective relationships across teams and organisations.
• Confident to challenge technical positions constructively, using engineering data, evidence and logical reasoning.
• Strong team-working skills, with a collaborative approach and willingness to support colleagues across organisational boundaries.
• Professional level of English, with the ability to read, write and discuss technical material confidently.
• Knowledge of the UK nuclear context, including the importance of the safety case, regulatory expectations, nuclear safety culture and proportionate engineering substantiation.
• Experience of major project delivery, design, commissioning or equipment lifetime topics would be beneficial.
• Experience preparing technical reports, senior-level briefings or governance papers would be advantageous.

If you are motivated by solving complex engineering problems, working collaboratively across teams and helping to deliver one of the UK’s most important nuclear projects, we would like to hear from you.

Please use this link to apply today and one of our team will be in touch in due course.

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