Principal Integrity Engineer
Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK, S40 1.
Job Description
Risktec Solutions is an independent and specialist risk management consulting and training company, part of the TV Rheinland Group. We support clients in major hazard industries—including oil and gas, clean energy, nuclear and transportation—as well as commercial and public sectors, to manage health, safety, security, environmental and business risk. Our team is composed of high‑calibre professionals dedicated to meeting client expectations.
We are seeking a Principal Integrity Engineer for a permanent role. The successful candidate will join our expanding Asset Integrity Management team based in Derby, UK, and will play a key role in leading and delivering solutions for our clients in the Conventional Power and Clean Energy sectors (primarily CCGT, Biomass and Energy from Waste plants).
Duties and responsibilities
- Leading and delivering power plant integrity assessments.
- Developing risk‑based inspection strategies.
- Providing technical support and advice to clients.
- Assessing inspection results (run / repair / replace decisions).
- Producing formal technical reports and other project deliverables on time and to budget.
- Creating proposals, tender documents and developing new business opportunities.
- Mentoring and developing less experienced integrity engineers.
- Maintaining up‑to‑date knowledge of standards, legislation and good practice.
- Conducting site visits in the UK and abroad to meet project requirements.
Experience
The candidate must have experience in all, or most, of the following:
- Integrity assessment of defective power plant components—low and high temperature (e.g., reverse code calculation, fracture mechanics, finite element analysis).
- Legislative compliance (e.g., UK PSSR).
- Power plant inspection (e.g., steam and water pressure parts, boiler tube surveys, support surveys) with an understanding of materials selection, damage/degradation mechanisms and life assessment.
- Power plant mechanical engineering.
- Power plant operations and maintenance.
- Experience working in conventional power and clean energy sectors (primarily CCGT, Biomass and Energy from Waste plants).
- Excellent organisational, problem‑solving, communication and report‑writing skills.
Required qualifications and experience
- BEng / MEng degree or equivalent in engineering (preferably mechanical engineering).
- Chartered Engineer or working towards professional registration is desirable.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
Rewards
- Profit Share
- Pension (7.5% company contribution)
- Life Assurance
- Permanent Health Insurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible Leave
- Flexible Working
- Employee Discounts
- Salary Sacrifice Options
- Professional and Postgraduate Training
- Professional Subscriptions
- Skills Training
