CS&A Responsible Engineer

Amentum; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Responsible Engineer to join their team for the SRP Project. This role involves leading a CS&A team to maintain and update design tasks, ensuring safety and functional requirements are met. Ideal candidates will have a Higher Education qualification in Engineering and experience in a regulated setting. The company values integrity, collaboration, and offers a supportive work culture with flexible working options.

Benefits

Free single medical cover

Enhanced parental leave pay

Professional development reimbursement

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong background in engineering with a successful delivery record.
• Experience in a regulated and quality-assured environment.
• Proven ability to influence professional engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the CS&A team in design maintenance and updates.
• Ensure delivery of CS&A design through construction.
• Manage project assurance with internal/external regulators.

Skills

Leadership

Construction Design

Safety Management

Project Management

Education

Higher Education Qualification in Engineering (MEng preferred)

Chartered Engineer / Architectural Technologist membership

Job description

At Amentum, we're not just solving problems; we're engineering the future. Our team is driven by an unyielding commitment to innovation, integrity, and collaboration, tackling some of the most significant challenges in science, security, and sustainability. If you're passionate about making a real impact and want to be part of a community that values ethical excellence, this is the place where your ambition can thrive.
Here, we believe that success comes from continuously pushing boundaries and working together to deliver on our promises. We embrace challenges with confidence and are dedicated to creating a secure and vibrant future for all.

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Amentum is the Design and Engineering partner for Sellafield under the PPP (Programme and Project Partners). This is a 20-year arrangement to deliver ~£7bn of major projects. We are looking to recruit high value expertise from across regulated and comparable sectors to work in a collaborative environment. PPP is delivering major projects, site wide improvements and provision of supporting services.

The Project

We are currently looking for a Responsible Engineer to join the team to work on the SRP Project.

SRP is a new retreatment plant that will treat and re-package all nuclear material into new 100 year packages to be transferred, safely and securely into the existing Sellafield Product and Residue Store through a connecting transfer corridor.

The project is currently in the 7th year of build on site with the project moving towards more architectural, building services and equipment fit out phase. Ongoing detailing design and support to manufacturing design require a large CS&A team to support construction design and manage any project design change requirements resulting design or product development.

The CSA team is a mixture of Structural and Architectural resources involved with both production of the functional design information and support of site-based operations which includes reviewing TQs, attending constructability reviews and acceptance of vendor produced design information.

The Role

As a CS&A Responsible Engineer you will be expected to lead the CS&A team in maintaining or updating the baseline design, implementation and delivery of specified design tasks to support work on site that achieves safety, functional and business requirements to support the Project Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities could include;

• Leading a team of CS&A engineers and architects in the definition, implementation and delivery of specified functional works that achieves safety, functional and business requirements.
• Delivery of the CS&A design through construction including updates to the project assurance with internal and external regulators.
• Production of Schedule and identification of key milestones.
• Develop deliverables list and format (drawings, specifications, reports, BIM etc.)
• Resource identification, forecasting and management.
• Reporting into project leadership team including Area Engineering Manager(s), Project Engineering Manager (PEM), Project Managers, Information managers and Programme managers as appropriate

As a CS&A Responsible Engineer you will already have;

• Higher Education Qualification in Engineering (or equivalent) subject- MEng (preferred)
• Appropriate (Engineering or Scientific) Institution Membership- Chartered Engineer / Architectural Technologist
• Background engineering experience demonstrating a record of successful delivery including recent positions influencing professional engineers and guiding technical personnel
• Experience of working within a regulated and quality assured system (preferably nuclear) in roles where professional judgement is the key attribute

Our Culture

Our values are built on a strong foundation of safety, integrity, and respect for every individual. People are at the heart of our mission, and we believe in supporting one another through a culture of care and collaboration.

We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. Supporting mental wellbeing and fostering a sense of connection are essential to how we work.

When we embrace different perspectives and work together, we become more innovative, more agile, and more successful.
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