Position – Fluid Systems Engineer

Location – Aztec West, Bristol

Hybrid – Required in the office 3 days per week and 2 days remote

Arrangement – Staffed only

Salary – Up to £60,000

NUVIA UK's Technical Services & Consulting department is fast growing with hybrid opportunities available up and down the country. We're striving to create a multidisciplinary team to offer our clients the best range of talent.

BPSS clearance will be required at basic level. Prior clearance will not be transferrable.

Fluid System Engineer consists of, or supports, the activities engineers in the Fluid Systems team. Those activities comprise:

• System design and system integration into overall HPC design;

• Produce, review and update the system documentation for the mechanical and thermos-hydraulic design, 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 I&C functional requirements of the system and production of the I&C logic:

• Writing of the Instrumentation & Control Functional Requirements

• Writing of Detailed Functional Diagram (DFD)

• Writing of FTP (Functional Test Platform procedure) specifications

• Analysis of the FTP results

• Writing of P5 text (I&C logic description

• Writing of P6.x (alarm sheets, operating images and operating modes)

• Particularly for mechanical design

• Sizing of components e.g pumps, fans, pipework, pressure relief valves, tanks

• Perform thermal-hydraulic calculation 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 datasheet

• 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 lesson learnt from other stations

• Engage proactively with all stakeholders around the system in EDVANCE 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

Essential:

• Mechanical or Chemical Engineering degree or equivalent qualification

• 5+ years’ experience of process engineering

• Relevant experience in the nuclear industry

• Ability to effectively manage own workload to produce high quality documents and respect deadlines

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Ability to communicate clearly and accurately, both written and orally, in English

• Proactive and confident in communicating with others, particularly those based in remote offices including France, and Germany.

• Proactive in developing positive working relations with others within the project

• Continuously looking for opportunities to improve quality of engineering studies and the subsequent documentation produced