ERS provide the Nuclear Defence & Civil Sector with Specialist Engineering and Nuclear Mechanical Engineering personnel, providing all levels from Junior/Graduate Mechanical and Electrical Engineers all the way up to senior Mechanical  Managers. All candidates have direct field/site based experience within the UK Nuclear Power Stations or Defence Armed Forces / Naval bases.

Specialist Engineering in the Nuclear Sector


Engineering

Specialist Engineering Firms in Nuclear Industry provide a range of Engineering Services to support the safe and efficient operation of Civil and Defence Nuclear facilities.

The principal disciplines include:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Electrical, Control and Instrumentation (EC&I) Engineering

Some of the larger specialist firms have been involved in delivering capital projects to many of the major nuclear operations and installations. By integrating  design, project management, safety and environmental skillsets, Specialist Engineering Firms are able to add real value to their clients business' in creating sustainable assets and business improvements. Being able to call upon core strengths in generation, transmission, distribution and master planning to develop innovative alliance. In addition providing safe engineering and design solutions for waste retrievals, processing and storage facilities.

These types of activities are provided to AWE, Nuclear generation facilities and Nuclear de-commissioning projects, etc.

Environment

Some specialists provide a comprehensive ‘one stop shop’ of environmental skills required to support the Nuclear Licensees, providing a service that is consistent, professional and therefore of the highest reliability and quality.

For example:

  • Compliance with requirements of Nuclear Installations Act and appropriate Site Licences.
  • Environmental legislation, including Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (RSA 93).
  • Environmental services including, Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO) studies, implementation of International Standards Organisation’s Environmental Management System 14001 (ISO 14001) implementation, radiological and environmental impact assessment.
  • Radioactive discharge monitoring.
  • Chemical and radiological contamination assessment and remediation.
  • Process, waste management and remediation engineering.

These activities are provided to such establishments and organisations as:

  • Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
  • Radiological Substances Division (RAS), 
  • Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII),
  • Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE),

and other Nuclear generation facilities and Nuclear de-commissioning projects.


Safety

Specialist Engineering Firms also provide a comprehensive and integrated range of services, often utilising a multi-disciplinary approach and industry wide best practice in:

  • Radiological protection reviews and advice
  • Human performance and behavioural safety
  • Hazard and risk assessment of nuclear generating and nuclear processing plant and operations
  • As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) assessments and reviews
  • Safety case development and assessment
  • Safety management systems and reviews
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Peer review

Atkins for example is driven by a strong safety culture and a philosophy that ‘zero is sustainable’. This has been recognised with the achievement of a ROSPA award for outstanding safety performance and have justifiably earned an enviable international reputation in this field, having provided these services to The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, AWE, Nuclear generation facilities and Nuclear de-commissioning projects, amongst others.

Support Services

Specialists in Engineering Services will generally focus on providing operational solutions by combining technological insight and business understanding. For example, to provide extensive engineering and technical support to commercial (operational and decommissioned) Reactors within the UK.  Insight into site culture and commercial operations often comes from personnel having a variety of experiences and resources to call upon, such as previous employment in Nuclear Sectors and secondments into the Nuclear Sector.

Examples of such services include:

  • Asset management solutions
  • Engineering substantiation and licence condition support
  • Operational excellence evaluation
  • Lifetime engineering and whole life costing
  • Maintenance optimisation
  • Independent Technical Advisor

These activities are provided to establishments such as AWE, Nuclear generation facilities and Nuclear de-commissioning projects and offer excellent career prospects.

Source: Atkins

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