21 jobs found in culham

What will you be responsible for? The job holder will lead in the specification, design, modification, procurement/construction, installation and commissioning of both continuous and pulsed power conversion plant for the UKAEA. These power converters have a range of technologies including electrical systems, power electronics, small-signal electronics and control & instrumentation. Key accountabilities include: * Capturing requirements, developing designs, chairing design reviews and implementing designs * Leading the technical and commercial management of contracts * Leading and accepting responsibility for delivery of defined parts of a systems * Analysing behaviour of existing systems to identify faults and propose solutions. * Proposing and implementing refurbishments of existing systems. * Working with other team members to design and implement control, instrumentation and protection systems for existing and new plant. * Preparation of safety and plant...

What will you be responsible for? * Performing scientific tasks on identifying and characterising the sequence of mechanisms leading to disruptions, which are likely to be relevant for the STEP device. * As part of a team, developing models describing the physical processes in the various disruption paths, including working closely with those making 3D nonlinear simulations of disruptions. * Developing real-time tools for disruption avoidance, with the aim of testing these on present experiments. * Contributing to the development of disruption detection methods with adequate fidelity to allow the disruption avoidance methods to function. * Participating in experiments on MAST-U to test real-time disruption avoidance for scenarios appropriate to the STEP device. At the higher level, you will also be responsible for: * Proposing and developing models describing the physical processes in the various disruption paths. * Planning and coordinating the development of...

What will you be responsible for? * Managing the fire alarm, fire extinguisher and fire suppression maintenance contract and day to day management of the contract's maintenance technicians. * Ensuring maintenance works on the fire alarm, fire extinguisher and fire suppression systems are delivered effectively and safely in compliance with the relevant statutory legislation and codes of practice. * Ensuring that fire alarm, fire extinguisher and fire suppression systems faults are quickly identified and addressed. * Providing engineering solutions and advice on new fire safety system installations. * Project managing the fire alarm and fire suppression upgrade projects, including assisting with production of specifications, through the tender process and supervision of contractors on site to final sign off. * Carrying out inspection, audits and sign off completed works including maintenance and new installation at point of commissioning and hand over to ensure compliance...

What will you be responsible for? * Providing support to UKAEA's internal and management system audit programmes * Action-tracking, managing programme expenditures and producing reports on these elements * Principle contact for employees and external auditors who are involved in the audit programme * Providing regular communication on the progress of the audit programme and actions, such as reports and dashboards * Providing assurance and valuable insights to the UKAEA leadership on the efficiency of the organisation In addition to the audit function, you will also support the corporate risk management and governance functions, which directly contribute to the overall performance of the organisation

You will be responsible for overseeing and providing support, additional training, coaching and mentoring to all UKAEA engineering apprentices. You will also be working with our apprenticeship standard providers to strengthen our apprenticeship programme. - To line manage & supervise engineering apprentices, including carrying out regular reviews of their progress. - To act as the technical expert supporting apprentices in the completion of competency and knowledge portfolios - To support apprentices in completing qualifications and preparing for gateway and final assessments - To support apprentices in their work placements and provide support and training to apprentice supervisors - To work with the wider Early Careers team in building effective working relationships with apprenticeship standard provider organisations

Service Support Officer - Full time - Department: Buildings and Facility Management - Salary: £22,821 to £24,539 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension - Confirmed Grade: Level 2 - Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire Company Description By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world's energy? If so, read on. Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA are at the forefront of realising energy from fusion, working with industry and research partners to deliver the ground-breaking developments that will underpin tomorrow's fusion power stations with the aim of bringing fusion electricity to the grid. Who are we looking for? We are seeking to recruit a Service Support Officer to join our friendly and growing Buildings and...

What will you be responsible for? * Answering the Property Helpdesk and Site Operator phone * Dealing with calls and logging information. * Administration duties for the Estates Development Control Process (Internal Planning Process) and also for a Facilities Management Contract. * Coordinate works with service suppliers * Arranging meetings, minute taking, compiling KPI / SLA information for review * Day to day administration of a facilities management contract

What will you be responsible for? * Project management from concept to completion of construction projects up to circa £25m * Management of the professional design team, production of briefs, project documentation, budgets, reporting, performance, etc. * Provision of advice on and support on procurement strategy and approvals processes. * Client liaison and stakeholder management * Application and management of BIM level 2 requirements * Risk Management: strong awareness of and the ability to apply risk management tools and strategies to enable the successful delivery of construction projects and programmes * Ensuring relevant statutory and environmental approvals are obtained prior to works commencing and that relevant safety management and Culham Site working procedures are observed For more information about the Culham Science Centre see (url removed) and for more information about the UKAEA see (url removed)

What apprenticeships are available? Our exciting apprentice training opportunities are available in: * L3 Engineering Technician * L3 Electrical Installation (Electricians) * L6 Digital & Technology Solutions * L6 Product Design & Development Engineer * L6 Electrical/Electronic Support Engineer For further information on the apprenticeship standards specific to the above areas, please view: https://(url removed)/apprenticeship-standards/? If an apprenticeship in a different subject area interests you, please view our full list of vacancies, as we are offering multiple apprenticeships across several disciplines. We have a Project Management apprenticeship at Level 6 included in our Professional Support vacancy

What opportunities does the graduate scheme cover? Our graduate scheme covers the following specialisms: * Control & Instrumentation Engineering - Support in the design, installation, operation and enhancement of modular electronics, PLC systems and analogue and digital electronics at board and systems level. * Software Engineering - Support in maintaining and updating software, writing, configuring and testing of control, data acquisition, analysis and archiving systems. * Electrical / Electronic Engineering - Support in the maintenance, repair and provision of upgrades/refurbishments to major parts of the pulsed power supplies plant (400/36KV), as well as producing electrical equipment designs from specifications. * Mechanical Engineering - Support by performing a variety of engineering tasks to include systems analysis, design and review, operational analysis as well as repair and recovery of existing equipment. * Civil Engineering - Support the...

What will you be responsible for? * Specifying and leading projects (or subsections of projects) on major fusion systems, from concept through to detailed design on enhancement programs for our facilities as well as for future fusion devices. * Acting as the technical expert and lead / support in setting the direction of site level projects in this capacity, acting as an authority and advisor for design solutions and/or critical plant operational issues. * Developing and implementing organisational as well as technical improvements, ensuring compliance within own team to management systems, policies and procedures. * Using expertise and experience across a range of fields to analyse and critique engineering systems, recommending alternative design routes or courses of action, which may draw from an outside discipline or are truly novel. * Building and maintaining positive relationships with external parties such as European or international laboratories, universities,...

What will you be responsible for? We are seeking mechanical design engineers to design, develop, commission, test, maintain and operate tools and equipment for these remote handling operations. The main responsibilities of the role will include: We are seeking mechanical design engineers to design, develop, commission, test, maintain and operate tools and equipment for these remote handling operations. The main responsibilities of the role will include: * Creation and design of effective remote handling mechanical robotic devices and tooling from concept through systems specifications to detail designs * Supervision of engineers and draughts people to maintain high design standards and integrate design work * Liaison with customers to report of project progress and to agree priorities * Drive and complete complex design activities within allotted time and with high efficiency, and ensuring designs are compliant with correct design files. * Lead and manage the...

The main key areas of responsibility will include: Acting as experienced technical lead in power plant design with knowledge of all the power plant design work going on across UKAEA. Acting as a technical authority on the design tools (such as systems codes and/or computational engineering) required for proposed power plants. Using expertise and experience across a range of fields to analyse and critique systems, recommending alternative design routes or courses of action, which may draw from an outside discipline or are truly novel. Developing the group into a heavily integrated power plant design team with the ability to exploit many design tools across multiple design concepts. Acting as a focal point of contact for internal and external customers with work on fusion reactor design concepts for national (STEP) and international (EU DEMO, CFETR, K-DEMO, FNSF) programmes

What will you be responsible for? * Leading in the development of superconducting magnet concept design * Lead the definition of magnet related technology projects that support the concept design development * Develop engineering plans to meet the programme and deliver to performance, time, cost and quality criteria * Collaborate across the STEP product areas to develop an integrated fusion reactor design * Lead on communication of magnet design progress through reviews and regular communication to the STEP Product Delivery team leaders

What will you be responsible for? This role is required to support both internal assessment with the completion of competency and knowledge portfolios and support apprentices in preparing for gateway and final assessments. Some of the main responsibilities include: - To support apprentices in their roles, including performance monitoring and content of work being undertaken. - To monitor the performance and progress of apprentices and apprenticeship providers, working with the wider Early Careers team to address any problems as soon as they arise. - To create effective working relationships with training providers to ensure delivery of the apprenticeship standard and the provision of a high quality apprenticeship scheme, working closely with the Early Careers Business Partner. - To ensure the college timetables work with the UKAEA placement element of the apprenticeship scheme. - To co-ordinate and deliver the apprentice supervisor training and apprentice supervisor panel...

What will you be responsible for? This role may span a broad range of tokamak integrated modelling applications and is likely to require the integration and validation of new transport models. On-the-job training, as appropriate, will ensure that you can fulfil the key accountabilities for this post, which may include any of the following: * Exploit and validate JETTO core transport code and its integrated models. * Integrate and test new or upgraded models in JETTO as they become available. Collaborate pro-actively with universities and other international collaborators to improve models. * Share knowledge, support other users with their simulations. * Propose and lead/contribute to the research programmes of MAST-U, JET and JT-60SA. * Propose and lead/contribute to scenario development efforts for ITER and DEMO. * Propose and lead/contribute to design programme for STEP. The definitive key accountabilities and the balance between scientific research and software...

What will you be responsible for? Depending on your experience and abilities, some of your responsibilities will include some or all of the following: * Planning, coordinating and performing work on the modelling of fast particle behaviour in tokamak plasmas, focusing in particular on fast particle drive of plasma instabilities, non-classical transport of fast ions due to MHD and fast particle-driven instabilities, the effects of fast particle-driven instabilities on bulk plasma transport and the effects of fast particles on plasma turbulence; * Contributing to the development of codes describing the interaction of fast particles (in particular fusion alpha-particles and injected beam ions) with tokamak plasmas; * Where possible, validating fast particle models experimentally on MAST-U; * Contributing to and helping to formulate the research programmes on STEP, MAST-U and other tokamaks supported by EUROfusion, implementing research strategy in these areas; * Reporting...

What will you be responsible for? Depending on your level of experience, your key responsibilities will include: * Planning, coordinating and performing work on the modelling of radio-frequency waves and their effects on electrons in tokamak plasma, implementing research strategy in this area. * Contributing to the development of codes describing the propagation, mode conversion and damping of radio-frequency waves in tokamak plasmas, together with the effects of these waves on electron populations. * Using existing and/or upgraded codes to model the propagation, mode conversion and damping of radio-frequency waves in tokamak plasmas. * Modelling heating and current drive resulting from the launch of radio-frequency waves into tokamak plasmas. * Contributing to and help to formulate heating and current drive elements of the research programmes on MAST-U, other tokamaks funded by EUROfusion and STEP, implementing research strategy in these areas. * Reporting results at...

What will you be responsible for? * Leading aspects of modelling and experimental understanding of runaway electron physics, with particular reference to their occurrence in Spherical Tokamaks. * Planning and developing methods to avoid runway electrons during disruptions and mitigate their consequences, should they occur. * Writing refereed journal articles and attend international conferences on magnetic fusion as agreed with management

Key areas of responsibility will include: * Delivering procurement support across the organisation, providing advice, guidance and completion of projects and complex tenders for the growing R&D portfolio within UKAEA. * Ensuring UKAEA is compliant with European Commission and UK directives for procurement in the public sector * Negotiating with the relevant parties (internal and external) to arrive at appropriate commercial agreements. * Providing advice to senior managers on contractual strategies * Managing contracts from tender through to closure. This will include evaluation of bids, ensuring that value for money is obtained at all times, negotiation of appropriate commercial agreements, resolving claims and disputes. * Contributing to the evolution of UKAEAs commercial terms and conditions, policies and working practices. * Identifying opportunities for improvements and propose solutions in order to contribute to continuous improvement