Senior Seismic - SSI Engineer

Amentum is currently recruiting for a Senior Seismic-SSI Engineer to join our Energy business, which is entering an exciting phase of opportunity: supporting a key client’s UK nuclear fleet through a business transformation; supporting new small modular reactor developers. Our work is varied, covering Licensing, New Build, Generation, Life Extension, and Defueling, and our capabilities are in demand across the nuclear sector.

We’re looking for a driven individual who embraces collaboration and diversity, and who shares our vision to create a secure and vibrant future by continuously reinventing, realising breakthroughs and taking on challenges with courage. Our goal is to support development of new nuclear technologies and to keep existing power stations operating safely, contributing to the UK’s Net Zero carbon target.

Your role will be to manage and deliver civil engineering analysis and design solutions to time, cost and quality on projects of varying sizes. If you’re familiar with project delivery, you’ll know that they have lots of moving parts and complexity, which is why you’ll be working alongside our Operations Managers and Engineering Managers to enable delivery of maximum value.

Centre to the success of the role will be your people skills, building effective relationships and interacting with multiple internal and external stakeholders in multiple locations. You’ll also work closely with colleagues to support activities that offer the best service to the client. Through your interactions, you’ll be able to gather useful intelligence on client needs and work with the team to deliver innovative solutions. You’ll utilise your strong communication and engagement skills to achieve client, people and business outcomes, working with your team and peers that are based in different locations across the UK.

This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Warrington, Gloucester, Bristol or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we’re happy to consider flexible working patterns.

Key responsibilities will be:

• Take ownership of technical challenges, develop a strategy and implement the solution through engagement with internal and external stakeholders
• Deliver technical solutions (analysis and design)
• Conduct soil-structure interaction (SSI) analyses and structure-soil-structure (SSSI) analyses
• Produce and review design deliverables (assumption notes, technical specifications and calculation notes, etc)
• Work with international SMR developers support them through the Office of Nuclear Regulation’s Generic Design Assessment process
• Review and justify design decisions to the ONR
• Fulfil and take ownership of CDM responsibilities

Qualifications

• MEng, MSc, BEng or BSc in Civil Engineering or other relevant degree level qualification
• Chartered with relevant institution (e.g., ICE or IStructE) or working towards Chartership
• Ability to work within a design team, and also able to collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams
• Previous experience in the design and/or construction of civil engineering solutions using American standards
• SSI capability using SASSI 2000, ACS SASSI, SHAKE, or similar (essential)
• LS-DYNA expertise (desirable)
• Concrete design expertise (American Concrete Institute ACI 318, ACI 349)
• Steel design expertise (American Institute of Steel Construction AISC 360, AISC 341, AISC N690)
• Seismic analysis (American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE 4, ASCE 43, ASCE 7)
• Understanding of the use of design tools within a BIM environment
• Demonstrable experience in the design of heavy infrastructure projects, nuclear or regulated industry
• Knowledge and understanding of UK Nuclear Regulatory process in field of civil engineering is desirable

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity.

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