Overview
In this role you will lead plant layout integration for fusion and modular nuclear programmes, acting as a subject-matter expert and coordinating across disciplines. You will shape complex layouts, support capability growth, and drive engineering best practices while remaining hands-on in project delivery. Your work enables safe, constructible, and lifecycle-aligned solutions that advance critical nuclear projects. This is a chance to influence design standards and engage with cross-functional teams in a high-regulation environment.
Pay / Benefits
- Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
- 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy/sell days
- Professional fees reimbursed
- Flexible working
- Employee referral scheme
Responsibilities
- Lead plant layout development from concept through detailed design for complex facilities and plant areas
- Act as technical lead for major buildings, systems or programme-level integration activities
- Lead development of equipment, piping, cable tray, access and maintenance arrangements
- Lead piping routing studies and layout optimisation activities
- Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and programmes
- Lead requirements-driven layout development and multidisciplinary integration activities
- Define layout integration methodologies, standards and engineering approaches
- Lead major optioneering, constructability, modularisation and plant integration studies
- Lead complex multidisciplinary reviews and technical workshops
- Provide technical assurance and review of layout deliverables
- Lead resolution of complex layout, routing, requirements and integration challenges
- Ensure layout solutions satisfy operational, safety, constructability and lifecycle requirements
- Support bids, proposals and client engagement activities
- Develop layout standards, procedures and best practice guidance
- Mentor engineers and support capability development
- Support recruitment, succession planning and capability growth
- Author and review technical reports, engineering strategies and client-facing documentation
Key requirements
- Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent industrial experience
- Extensive experience in plant layout, piping layout, plant integration and multidisciplinary engineering delivery
- Experience leading complex engineering studies and technical decision-making
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, requirements management and interface management
- Strong understanding of constructability, maintainability, modularisation and lifecycle considerations
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, workshops and design reviews
- Experience supporting major design reviews, technical governance activities and engineering assurance processes
- Experience using E3D, PDMS, Plant 3D, Siemens NX, Revit, Inventor and Navisworks, or equivalent platforms
- Excellent report writing, presentation and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, clients and project teams
- Ability to define engineering strategy whilst remaining engaged in technical delivery
- SC Clearance or capable of achieving it
- stakeholder management
- leadership and mentoring
- communication and presentation
- E3D
- PDMS
- Plant 3D
Senior/Principal Plant Layout Engineer in Derby employer: Assystem
Assystem is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Warrington that fosters innovation and collaboration among its 8,000 experts. With a strong commitment to employee growth, Assystem provides opportunities for professional development in the highly regulated nuclear engineering sector, ensuring that team members are equipped with the skills needed to excel in their roles. The company's inclusive culture values diverse perspectives, making it a rewarding place for those looking to make a meaningful impact in project risk management.
