Nuclear Waste Services has two vacancies for Senior Engineering Managers within the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) and Higher Activity Waste (HAW) Engineering Management team.
As senior engineering manager, you will be responsible for developing engineering strategy, programme and leading a system engineering approach to development of safe solutions in specified areas of expertise across our GDF and HAW programmes. This includes coordinating input from the wider engineering function into the GDF programme where specialist discipline input is needed.
You will contribute to:
GDF site evaluation, leading engineering feasibility evaluation of potential sites:
- To understand whether the requirements for construction, sustainable design, retrievability and the ability to accommodate the inventory for disposal can be satisfied.
- To enable a government decision on sites to proceed to borehole characterisation.
Ensuring Nuclear Waste Services has the capability and knowledge needed to begin initial GDF concept design on sites selected for characterisation. This includes:
- Engineering input to GDF system requirements definition.
- Development of GDF design strategies.
- Being the customer for GDF engineering design process development.
- Engineering input to site characterisation planning, consents and permits.
- Engineering input to our GDF delivery operating model, business cases and procurement of our design delivery partner.
- Pre-concept design, including development of the engineering knowledge base needed to inform early design decisions.