Senior Systems Engineer

Closing Date:  25/10/2024

Role Title:  Senior Systems Engineer

Location:  London / Manchester / Gloucester

We have a hybrid & flexible working policy of 3 days per week in the office. There are also travel opportunities to our offices in Turin (Italy) and Lyon (France) to collaborate with our Global Engineering Team.

About the Role and the Systems Engineering Team:

As a senior systems engineer, you will be responsible for delivering a range of systems engineering activities in newcleo’s LFR projects, such as managing requirements, interfaces, and V&V, maintaining design coherence, liaising with stakeholders, and developing architecture.

Our Systems Engineering Team is composed of highly skilled engineers from a diverse range of technical backgrounds who enjoy the challenge of complex projects and playing a pivotal role in the design, development, and integration of advanced nuclear systems.  This is an opportunity to join a supportive and open team where your work will have an impact on the future of sustainable nuclear energy.

What You’ll be Doing:

Reporting to the Head of Unit – Systems Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Creating, updating, or coordinating artifacts such as the operations concept, functional and physical architectures, requirement and compliance statements, verification and validation planning, optioneering assessments, design risk assessments (safety and CDM), and FMEA’s.
• Supporting integrated technical management (technical and project risks and issues, technical assumptions, interfaces, design configuration).
• Liaising with stakeholders and technical teams to ensure design coordination.
• Responding to technical queries as required.
• Supporting the implementation of a model supported engineering approach.

Your Skills and Experience: 

Please note, if you meet some but not all of the points below, we are still keen to hear from you!

• Strong systems engineering experience across the product lifecycle.
• Experience with software tools for requirements and system architecture.
• Understanding of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Experience in fission nuclear, although other highly regulated backgrounds will be considered.
• Understanding of power plant design and operations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with a multi-national multi-cultural team and to attain and maintain the respect and confidence of all stakeholders.
• Right to work full time in the UK & can achieve a national security clearance equivalent to a BPSS standard, or higher, within a reasonable period

What We Offer:

A competitive salary and benefits package including performance related share option scheme, private medical insurance, group life insurance, chartered membership funding & more!

The opportunity to be part of a revolutionary clean energy company working with a dynamic, international work environment with a team of experts.

The chance to make a significant impact on the future of nuclear energy and the environment.

About newcleo

Privately funded and headquartered in London, newcleo was launched in 2021 – and since raised a total of EUR 400m – to be an innovator in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean, economic and practically inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.

With visionary co-founders, newcleo capitalises on thirty years of R&D activity in metal-cooled fast reactors and liquid-lead cooling systems, and our senior management and advisory team can boast hundreds of years in cumulative hands-on experience.

newcleo’s technology, mostly comprising a novel approach to already qualified solutions, addresses equally well the three challenges affecting the nuclear industry to date: waste, safety and cost.

• Waste: fast reactors are capable of efficient use of depleted uranium, plutonium and Minor Actinides. When operated with MOX fuel generated from reprocessed nuclear waste, newcleo’s reactors not only ensure sustainability by closing the fuel cycle, but can also boost energy independence.
• Safety: lead-cooled reactors operate at atmospheric pressure. The properties of lead (thermal capacity and conductivity, boiling point, chemically inert, low neutron activation, shielding properties) together with newcleo’s passive safety systems ensure very high levels of safety.
• Cost: newcleo’s reactor design has been optimised over the last 20 years leading to the concept of an ultra-compact and transportable 200MWe module with improvements in energy density compared to other technologies. Costs are kept low by means of simplicity, compactness, modularity, atmospheric pressure operation and elevated output temperature.

newcleo is also working to significantly invest in MOX fuel manufacturing in developed countries, extracting energy from the current nuclear industry by-products.

newcleo is ready to develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will help humanity reach zero emissions, and mitigate of global warming.

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If you are not ready to apply just yet, or have a few questions? Contact Cameron Emerson at Cameron.emerson@newcleo.com

Please note, all applications will need to be made via our online portal.