Hitachi Automotive Systems Europe
Gloucester, United Kingdom
The post holder will be part of a team that provides the Intelligent Customer in this area for services provided by others and to deliver support to a range of projects across the organisation.
The role will be based at our Head Office in Gloucester, but may require some travel within the UK and international, including Japan.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Carry out assessments of specific aspects of nuclear power station design;
- Be the Horizon Intelligent Customer/source of technical expertise for the deterministic fault studies technical area;
- Assist with the development and maintenance of the technical competence and capability of the Nuclear Technology function;
- Support the technology provider during the Generic Design Assessment of the UK ABWR;
- Support the development of the Safety Case for the deterministic fault studies area and related aspects;
- Liaison with Operations team for assumptions and limits/ technical specifications used within the deterministic fault studies area;
- Provide oversight and verification of work carried out by the staff within the team;
- To act as an Intelligent Customer for services provided by others.
Qualifications
Knowledge and Skills:
Essential
- Track record of success and achievement within career to date;
- A relevant engineering or science qualification to degree level;
- Substantive experience in the nuclear industry, with significant portion related to development and acceptance of deterministic fault study analysis, including representation to regulators;
- Proven ability in the conduct and review of various types of performance and safety analysis, including deterministic and / or probabilistic techniques;
- Significant experience of the design, assessment and modelling of nuclear power plant performance and behaviour using deterministic fault studies analysis codes;
- Extensive understanding of nuclear power plant design, modelling and simulation of reactor behaviour, preferably in a utility environment;
- Understanding of the applications of deterministic fault studies to inform design, modification and operation (e.g. limits and conditions) and maintenance of nuclear power plants;
- Experience of implementation of deterministic fault studies into the plant safety case;
- Proven ability to liaise effectively with regulators and other stakeholders, both internally and externally;
- Understanding of engineering safety and interpretation of nuclear safety functional requirements, ideally related to Boiling or Light Water Reactors;
- Ability to technically lead the preparation of deterministic fault study related documentation;
- Experience leading small team of technical experts and leading discussions and managing 3rd parties and to provide guidance and support to other members of the team;
- Project management and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines;
- Good team working skills, able to work with a wide range of other engineering and business disciplines within and outside Horizon;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Fluency in English;
- Capacity to work independently;
- Ability to learn and deliver value in a changing and growing organisation;
- Operates consistently in line with Horizon company values which include: Safety, Courage, Integrity, Collaboration and Inspiration;
- Mobility and commitment to undertake business travel both within the UK and overseas as required.
Desirable
- Holding or working towards Membership of a relevant professional institution e.g. the Nuclear Institute, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Physics;
- Experience of selection and application of Human Reliability Analysis would be an additional advantage.