Principal Piping Engineer

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 and diverse 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. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

About the Opportunity

Amentum is currently recruiting for a Principal Piping 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. Your role will be to manage and deliver piping 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. This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Warrington, Glasgow, Gloucester, Stockton, Bristol, or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we’re happy to consider flexible working patterns.

Key responsibilities:

• 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).
• Produce and review design deliverables (assumption notes, technical specifications, and calculation notes, etc).

Qualifications:

• MEng, MSc, BEng or BSc in Mechanical Engineering or other relevant degree level qualification.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in relevant field of design of heavy infrastructure projects, nuclear or regulated industry.
• Chartered with relevant institution (IMechE, MIET) or working towards Chartership.
• Ability to work within a design team, and able to collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Previous experience in the design and/or construction of piping engineering solutions using American codes.
• Competent in the use of stress analysis packages (Caesar II, PipeStress).
• Stress analysis of pipe work to ASME III 1, 2, 3 and ASME codes including dynamic analysis and fatigue analysis.
• Experience with Heat Transfer Analysis.
• Experience generating layout and Isometric drawings.
• Understanding of AISC N-690 Code would be advantageous.
• Familiarity of structural analysis software, GTStrudl.

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. We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.