Graduate Regulatory Compliance 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

Technical Plant Maintenance Group (TPMG) have an opportunity for a Graduate Engineer to work as part of their Engineering Team specialising in Regulatory Compliance. TPMG provides specialist technical supervision and guidance in all aspects of Operational Plant across multiple UKAEA projects including JET Decommissioning MASTU H3AT STEP CHIMERA etc. The services TPMG provide include delivery of a comprehensive planned preventative maintenance program solutions and responsive delivery of corrective actions to minimise plant downtime and guidance to ensure technical plant is operated and maintained in compliance with all appropriate regulatory requirements. The graduate position would specialise in the regulatory aspect of TPMGs services provided.

This opportunity is primarily office based but with regular opportunities to go out on site to inspect or assess equipment or planned operations. The role requires exceptional attention to detail and diligence when checking and filing paperwork much of which will be legal documents. The role has similarities to engineering quality control audit and asset management type roles.

Accountabilities:

Primarily office based duties

• Through attending short courses selfstudy and working with the Senior Authorised Persons for Lifting and Pressure throughout the graduate program develop a detailed knowledge of the LOLER PSSR 2000 and PUWER and associated legislation like SOMSR and how they are enforced and complied with in industry.
• Become competent in using UKAEAs CMMS software to track due dates for equipment maintenance / statutory inspections and to store maintenance and inspection reports fully understanding the legal significance of these records.
• Assist with the development of internal procedural documentation guidance notes and standard forms.
• Learn how to advise and support Asset Managers with their statutory duties to ensure compliance with LOLER PSSR and PUWER including advising on Asset Management as it relates to regulatory compliance.
• Learn how to manage small public sector contracts for provision of thirdparty inspection and maintenance services.

Duties with an operational on site element

• Occasional opportunities to accompany the UKAEA SAPL and SAPP as Technical Interface in the design testing and commissioning of pressure and lifting equipment on UKAEA sites and potentially on overseas projects.
• PSSR Learn about all aspects of inspecting industrial and scientific pressure equipment inspection including how to create a written safe system of work putting in place mechanical isolations to make equipment safe to inspect and supervising third party inspectors and contractors while they work. The role will also involve learning how to carry out visual and ultrasonic surveys of pressure equipment.
• LOLER Learn the key principles of a lift plan review alongside the SAPL review lift plans submitted by external contractors. Ensure a safe system of work is established and the training and competencies of lifting teams are current and that both contractor and clients are legally compliant. Help to coordinate these operations with project managers site supervisors and other stakeholders whilst ensuring LOLER compliance.

Additional Responsibilities:

• 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 required to travel and work offsite in support of UKAEA project responsibilities and maybe temporarily colocated with our business partners.
• Engineers may be required to work at height

Qualifications :

Essential Requirements:

• Degree in engineering ideally with a mechanical process or civil engineering bias.
• A good knowledge of Microsoft Excel including writing formulae condition formatting pivot tables and other advanced features.

Desirable:

• A basic knowledge of VBA or other software for data analysis such as PowerBi.
• A basic understanding of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and familiarity with the scope of associated legislation and codes.

Additional Information :

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