Overview / Responsibilities
Wood is seeking a skilled and experienced Engineer to be based in our Bristol Business Park Office. You will be working within an established yet growing team operating within Wood's Bristol Consultancy & Defence Business, primarily supporting the Ministry of Defence in the Nuclear Submarine Programme.
Wood is committed to the continuing professional development of our staff. The role presents opportunities to develop "profile" and should be seen as providing a strong foundation for a rewarding career in the defence field or the opportunity to deepen your knowledge and skill base further.
About Wood Nuclear:
Wood's nuclear business supports customers in the energy generation, new build, decommissioning and defence sectors.
Our nuclear business has offices in Knutsford and Birchwood in Cheshire, Gloucester, Dorchester, Harwell, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bristol, Cumbria, Reading and London. We also have a strong international presence to support our growing operations in France, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, South Africa and Japan.
Our reputation for safely delivering quality projects on time and on budget is well recognised in the industries we serve. We have proven expertise in managing large, complex projects, a global reach and long-standing UK presence, strong relationships with our clients and cutting-edge processes and technologies.
What that means to you is the opportunity to experience a real variety of projects, working with people from different backgrounds. You'll work closely with our clients and committed to achieving outstanding results in a stimulating and quality-driven environment.
This role is ideal for a confident and ambitious Nuclear Engineer, several years into their career or a seasoned veteran. You will enjoy a considerable degree of autonomy and be expected to do the right thing both technically and behaviourally in terms of acting as an ambassador for the company on client premises.
Role Responsibilities:
- To provide authoritative advice to MoD in support of their internal governance processes
- To act as a Subject Matter Expert in your relevant technical areas, providing technical advice to MoD
- Representing Wood Plc at external project and technical meetings with MoD and their contractors
- Representing the Bristol - Amec Foster Wheeler team at internal project, technical and safety meetings
- Identifying commercial opportunities for Wood and ensuring that appropriate follow-up actions are taken
- Maintaining and upholding Wood codes of conduct and safety standards
Skills / Qualifications
Skills / Qualifications
- Experience within the naval nuclear propulsion programme and detailed knowledge of naval reactor plant
- Excellent communications and presentation skills
- Relevant science or engineering academic qualification
- Ability to work across a range of tasks and liaise with stakeholders at all levels
- Flexibility with the ability to travel as the demands of the role dictates
- Working knowledge of Safety Case construct and production
- Working knowledge of UK Regulatory systems and the organisations involved
- A strong self-starter mentality, able to work confidently, often un-supervised
- Must be able to obtain SC clearance
- You must be a UK Nation due to security clearances
Flexibility is absolutely key to the role and you will have the opportunity to apply your skills in a variety of submarine related applications.
What do you get?
As well as exciting roles on projects in the UK and abroad; in a supportive and professional work environment, these are some of the additional benefits you can expect at Wood:
For you:
- A competitive reward package
- Work life balance - We offer flexible working; we have core and flex hours in all our permanent office locations.
- Family friendly benefits - maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave.
- International opportunities - As an 60,000 strong community of colleagues operating in 60 counties you will have access to international career opportunities.
- For your peace of mind we offer life insurance benefit on top of a contributory pension scheme, as well as income protection and life assurance benefit.
- To support you throughout your career you will have access to an Employee Assistance programme, which can offer anything from financial advice to mental health support and counselling sessions.
For our communities:
- We give back to our communities, we have a matched funding community investment programme. In our global business our people are showing commitment and courage to care for the communities we operate in. You can do this by supporting causes and raising funds for charities that are important to you, your colleagues and your local area