HVAC System Engineer in Newport

Location: Bristol

Job Type: Permanent, Full time

Field: Nuclear

Education Level: Master’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical Engineering degree or equivalent qualification

Experience: at least 3 years of relevant experience

Salary: Attractive following experience

Starting date: ASAP

ABOUT US

KURY UK Ltd is part of an international company, Kury Groupe, 100% dedicated to the nuclear field with 26 years of experience in nuclear engineering. We are involved in several nuclear projects, including FA3 EPR (France), the French fleet, Taishan EPR (China), Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C. We are now looking for engineers to join our Team in the UK. Our human-sized structure (100 employees worldwide) allows us to devote ourselves to mentoring and training our engineers. We take special care of our employees’ development by ensuring them quality projects through which they will increase their skills. Our Kury values: Curiosity, Trust, Rigour, Teamwork. Our team is international, our engineers come from different countries as we are looking for the best talents!

SUITABLE CANDIDATE

You enjoy analysing concrete problems, finding solutions and then setting them up. Getting involved in significant industrial and engineering projects involving very demanding precautions regarding industrial safety captivates you. Your good analytical skills, sense of logic, aptitude for synthesising and your scientific knowledge will allow you to adapt quickly to multi-system environments. You have the ability to adapt to new technical problems. You know how to manage a small team. You like the idea of working on Projects and Quality matters to you. You are a good team player.

THE ROLE

You will be part of the HVAC Systems engineering team, your activities will comprise:

• System design and system integration into overall Projects design: Review and update the system documentation, as well as formulate the mechanical, electrical, nuclear safety, and control logic requirements in compliance with the engineering rules, methodologies, quality processes, and tools.
• Analyse and verification of input data, requirements, and lessons learnt from other stations.
• Sizing of components e.g. pumps, pipework, fans, tanks, performing thermal-hydraulic calculation and modelling with in-house or commercial tools.
• Support to procurement team in formulation of technical specification and supplier surveillance.
• Modification and configuration management: Manage requests for modifications to system(s) checking their applicability.
• Develop and present technical solutions suitable for all impacted disciplines that support design stability strategy.
• Solve technically challenging and multi-disciplinary open points in a timely pro-active manner.
• I&C design of systems including: Apply client’s engineering rules applicable for I&C design e.g. for platform allocation.
• Define the I&C functional requirements cascading the requirements from key safety inputs to ensure the safety case is respected.
• Use the I&C tools available, define the I&C logic, write the test procedure and test the control, define the HMI in the Control Room.
• Produce and update the I&C parts of the System Design Manual.
• Perform technical peer reviews of I&C documents produced by other engineers in the team.
• Participation in the preparation of commissioning strategy of systems: Attend kick-off meetings and maturity reviews.
• Produce updated documentation and/or redlines as required.
• Support the commissioning teams with system inputs needed for the production of the documentation required for the commissioning sequence.

A proactive and positive engagement with all stakeholders around the HVAC systems is needed to ensure the delivery of a product meeting the requirements set by all disciplines (layout, civil, hazard, nuclear safety, environment, configuration management, procurement etc.). During the first months, you can count on the KURY Team to assist you all along your projects. This experience will give you the opportunity to move on to other projects in the medium term: you will tackle varied but complementary projects, studies and technical topics. Your understanding of the technical and environmental challenges will allow you to take on complex and critical transversal studies.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Relevant experience in the nuclear industry.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload in order to produce high-quality documents and respect deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: ability to communicate clearly and to deal with different stakeholders, confident in communicating within an international environment and proactive in developing positive working relations with others within the project.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to improve quality of engineering studies and the subsequent documentation produced.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Knowledge of EPR system design principles, Instrumentation and Control architecture and Safety Classification.
• Experience working on an operating plant or on an industrial site.
• French-speaking and ability to write technical documents in French would be an advantage.