Principal / Senior Systems Engineer

Closing Date:  05/01/2025

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

Since launching in 2021 newcleo has quickly established itself as innovator in the field of nuclear energy. newcleo is working to design, build, and operate Gen-IV Advanced Modular Reactors (AMRs) that are cooled by liquid lead and fueled by reprocessed nuclear waste.

Through an innovative combination of existing and proven technologies, and by reviving a nuclear industry model based on the manufacture and multi-recycling of Mixed Oxide fuel, newcleo aims to close the nuclear fuel cycle while safely producing clean, affordable, and practically inexhaustible energy required for low carbon economies.  

With a EUR 50m group turnover in 2024, more than EUR 400m of private funding and over 70 partnerships and collaborations across the nuclear industry, the growth of the newcleo group is supported through the targeted acquisition of key companies with strong capabilities in nuclear engineering, manufacturing, and waste management.

Through its workforce of over 800 highly qualified employees across France, the UK, Italy, Switzerland, and Slovakia, newcleo is not only developing and delivering the skills and services required for the group’s own ambitious project timelines, but also supporting the development of Small Modular Reactor supply chains in Europe and beyond. 

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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.