Mechanical Engineer

Location: Bristol

Job Type: Permanent, Full time

Field: Nuclear

Way of working: Hybrid (2 days remotely)

Education Level: Master’s degree in Mechanical / Process Engineering or equivalent discipline

Experience: 3+ years’ experience

Salary: Attractive following experience

Starting date: ASAP

ABOUT US

KURY UK Ltd is part ofan international company, Kury Groupe, 100% dedicated to the nuclear field with 23 years of experience in nuclear engineering.

Since then, we have been working with EDF (French Electricity Producer). We are involved in several nuclear projects, including FA3 EPR (France), the French fleet, Taishan EPR (China), Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C.

We are now looking for engineers to join our Team in the UK. Our human-sized structure (100 employees worldwide) allows us to devote ourselves to mentoring and training our engineers. We take a special care of our employees’ development by ensuring them quality projects through which they will increase their skills.

Our Kury values: Curiosity, Trust, Rigour, Teamwork

Our team is international, our engineers come from different countries as we are looking for the best talents!

THE ROLE

As a Mechanical engineer, you will be in charge of the following activities:

System design and system integration into overall project design:

Produce, Review and update the system documentation for the mechanical and thermo-hydraulic design, electrical, operator instructions, human-machine interface, safety and environmental, control logic design, as well as periodic testing in compliance with the engineering rules, methodologies, quality processes, and tools:

• Particularly for Instrumentation and Control, performing the analysis for defining the Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Functional Requirements of the system and production of the I&C logic: defining the I&C Functional Requirements, drafting Detailed Functional Diagram, writing of the Functional Test Procedure, testing the I&C logic and feeding results back into specification, definition and description of human-machine interface.
• Particularly for mechanical design: sizing of components, perform thermal-hydraulic calculations and modelling with in-house or commercial tools, ensuring the 3D model is consistent with the intended system design, formulate equipment specification and provide the data in respective database or data sheet, support to procurement team in formulation of technical specification for contract documentation, support to procurement team in technical surveillance of supplier documentation.
• Analysis and verification of input data, requirements, and lessons learnt from other stations.
• Engage proactively with all stakeholders around the system in the project to ensure the delivery of a product meeting the requirements set by all disciplines (layout, civil, hazard, nuclear safety, environment, configuration management, procurement …).
• Contribute to topics around good practices, innovation, improvement of processes, and quality.
• Participate in experience sharing activities within the discipline.

Management of configuration related to the system including:

• Managing requests for modifications to system(s) issued by various external parties by producing specifications and following engineering cycle.
• Analysis and verification of the applicability of these modifications and challenging them as appropriate.
• Developing technical solutions and presenting them to internal or external stakeholders / the client to help resolve technical issues.
• Utilising the electronic databases supporting configuration management.

Support handovers to detailed designers or customers:

• Liaising with other stakeholders through participation at kick-off meetings, gate reviews etc relevant to the system.
• Producing and updating process diagrams with all relevant design changes for handovers with detailed designers.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Relevant experience in the nuclear industry.
• Advanced knowledge of EPR system design principles, Instrumentation and Control architecture and Safety Classification.
• Experience of working on an EPR project, operating nuclear power plant or on an industrial site.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload in order to produce high-quality documents and respect deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• French-speaking would be an advantage.