🚀 The Job Mission

We are seeking Senior Structural Integrity Engineers to lead and deliver high-impact projects, supporting both new-build nuclear plants and life extension programmes for existing infrastructure. As a technical leader, you’ll ensure the safety, integrity, and performance of critical systems.

⚡️ Provide structural integrity assessments using Finite Element Analysis and hand calculations.
⚡️ Support customer safety cases through robust technical substantiation.
⚡️ Lead internal calculation reviews and represent Assystem at external technical meetings.
⚡️ Mentor and supervise junior staff, including technical reviews and approvals.
⚡️ Deliver projects within agreed budgets and deadlines.
⚡️ Support business growth by contributing to proposals, bids, and customer engagement.
⚡️ Ensure compliance with Assystem’s quality assurance processes and standards.

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Essential Skills:
🛠 Degree in engineering or equivalent, with significant experience in structural integrity assessments.
🛠 Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or commitment to achieve it.
🛠 Leadership experience in mentoring, supervising, and approving technical work.
🛠 Proficiency in FEA tools such as ANSYS or ABAQUS, and pressure vessel codes (e.g., ASME, BS7910, R6).
🛠 Strong technical communication skills and proven experience in customer-facing roles.
🛠 Comprehensive knowledge of material behaviour, inspection methods, and manufacturing processes.

Desired Skills:
✔️ Experience in regulated industries (nuclear, defence, aerospace, etc.).
✔️ Expertise in customer-specific methodologies (e.g., R3, R5, API-579).
✔️ Familiarity with Altair Hyperworks or equivalent pre/post tools.
✔️ Knowledge of fatigue and degradation mechanisms, including environmental fatigue.
✔️ Code assessment to international pressure vessel codes (e.g., ASME B&PVC, PD5500), high integrity lifting (e.g., BS2573, BS EN 13001), BS5950 or Eurocodes, API-579, R6, BS7910 (fracture assessments), BS7608 (fatigue), and offshore codes (e.g., DNVGL, NORSOK).
✔️ Demonstrated ability to integrate structural integrity assessments with CFD and dynamic analysis.

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🌟 Why Apply?
Join Assystem’s dynamic team at Hinkley Point C and apply your electrical layout expertise to one of the most ambitious nuclear projects in Europe. You will work at the forefront of innovation, contributing to the UK’s future energy infrastructure. Apply today to shape the future of energy!

Benefits include:

• Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
• 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
• Professional fees reimbursed
• Flexible working
• Generous employee referral scheme

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.