Graduate Mechanical Design Engineer - Graduate Scheme 2025

The salary for this role is 32729.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

UKAEAstwoyear graduate scheme is split by 80% of your timedeveloping both your general workrelated skills and professional qualifications and 20% of your working time dedicated to graduate training and development. Within the graduate training and development there is a core suite of activities designed to develop your professional and business skills. Elements of this programme are flexible and can be tailored to your personal development needs and to those of your specific job role. 

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Graduate Mechanical Engineer you will play a pivotal role and do a variety of engineering tasks designed to provide experience & familiarization with staff methods practices & programs of the organisation. This may include operating maintaining & demonstrating equipment. The role holder will be expected to manage their own development continuously working towards buildingtheir knowledge & skills.

• System Analysis
• Design & Review
• Procure & Commission
• Operational Analysis
• Support the repair and recovery of existing equipment
• Report
• Plan & Coordinate
• Support Business Development

Additional Responsibilities:

System analysis: 

• Remote compatibility & design assessments 
• Requirements capture 
• Market & technology surveys

Design & Review:

• Writing functional specifications 
• Concept generation & selection 
• Preliminary design and component selection 
• Structural thermal kinematic fluid flow & vibrational analysis 
• Integration 
• Peer review 
• Detailed design & drafting 

Procure & Commission:

• Coordinating the procurement ensuring value for money and budget compliance. 
• Developing & writing assembly procedures & testing and commissioning procedures.  
• Identifying key quality requirements and creating corresponding inspection documentation in line with UKAEA 
• Monitoring progress and quality of both subcontract and inhouse manufacturing & assembly ensuring compliance to UKAEA site standards 
• Identifying manufacturing nonconformances and discuss them with the associated stakeholders. 
• Arranging or enacting inspection by relevant departments. 
• Commissioning & troubleshooting hardware builds 
• Signing off completed work packages 
• Writing maintenance and operator manuals 

Operational Analysis:

• Working with the VR Engineer to create simulations demonstrating the feasibility and efficiency of operations  
• Operational Sequence descriptions  
• RAMI analysis  

Support the repair and recovery of existing equipment:

• Analysing faults on equipment based on design information and anecdotal accounts of the failure form operational team. 
• Determining and managing a methodical approach to problem diagnosis 
• Identifying and agreeing appropriate corrective action in consultation with operational team and equipment experts. 
• Organising and oversee corrective action 
• Ensuring appropriate design files are updated and spare stock replenished. 

Report:

• Reporting work and results back to customer in project defined way 

Plan & Coordinate: 

• Planning work programs and projects 
• Coordinating instructing and enabling assisting staff in execution of project work 

Support Business Development:

• Generating work proposals base on tender specifications and customer and bid team discussions 
• Estimating resource effort and hardware costs 
• Delivering conference presentations and publishing paper 

Qualifications :

Essential Requirements:

• Recognised suitable engineering degree 
• Demonstrates a good understanding of engineering principles and how they a can be applied. 

Additional Information :

Other Duties:

• Engineers may be required from time to time to enter radioactive controlled areas to support the diagnosis and execution of corrective action on JET equipment. Appropriate PPE and training will be provided in advance. 
• Engineers may be requested to be on call to support operations. 
• Engineers may be required to travel and work offsite in support of UKAEA project responsibilities and maybe temporarily colocated with our business partners. 

A full list of our benefits can be found here

We welcome applications from underrepresented groups particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds people with disabilities and women. Our Executive team supported by our Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime