Principal Structural Integrity Engineer
📍 Location: Derby

Your future team:

Due to rapidly increasing demands for new plant and equipment in the defence industry, as well as life extension programmes for existing plant, our structural integrity experts are in high demand, and we need a technical leader to drive that growth.

👥 You’ll help shape a team of smart, driven engineers
🌱 Mentor and grow future technical leaders

Your Missions:

🔧 Serve as the go-to expert for Structural Integrity . Troubleshoot issues, give technical advice, and review analysis & progress.

📄 Review calculations and reports, and confidently represent Assystem in client meetings.

✅ Act as an Independent Technical Approver, ensuring high technical standards.

🧮 Use Finite Element Analysis and hand calcs to prove structural integrity to international standards,  including pressure vessel & defect tolerance codes.

🤝 Work closely with safety case authors and cross-functional engineering teams.

📈 Help drive bids, proposals, and strategic growth initiatives.

🎓🌱 Mentor junior engineers, shaping the next generation of integrity professionals.

Why join the community of Switchers?:

🔹 The Group is currently ranked third in the world for nuclear engineering.

🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text

🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs

At Assystem, we celebrate diversity and creativity. We believe in harnessing unique perspectives to shape innovative solutions. Your skills and daring spirit are what truly matter. Join us and help shape the future! 🌟

Requirements & Qualifications

We Want Someone Who Can…

🧠 Lead on structural integrity with modern techniques
✍️ Own assessments using top tools & standards
👥 Mentor junior engineers & lead technically
🤝Work directly with clients to solve problems
📊 Expert in FE analysis for strength, fatigue, defects, and service life
📘 Skilled in ASME III/VIII, API-579, BS7910, BS7608 (R3/R5/R6 a plus)
🔁 Bonus: experience in CFD, dynamics, fatigue, degradation mechanisms is highly desirable
⚛️ Must have nuclear sector experience

Your Toolbox Should Include…

🎓 Eng. degree + CEng
🏗️ Experience in nuclear SSC assessments
🗣️ Strong communicator with commercial awareness
🧮 Expert in ABAQUS (or ANSYS, Dyna, etc.)
🧰 Used Altair Hyperworks or similar tools
📏 Familiar with code assessments (ASME, PD5500, BS2573, BS EN 13001)
⚙️ Know manufacturing methods, materials, inspections

🚀 Not a perfect match? Let’s talk anyway — we’re open to growing the right talent.

**Security Clearance**

This role requires the successful candidate to hold (or be able to obtain) a minimum of a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance.

Due to the nature of work this role will be delivering and for the protection of certain assets, the successful candidate has to be a sole UK national

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.