Principal EC&I Engineer

At Amentum, we're not just solving problems; we're engineering the future. Our team is driven by an unyielding commitment to innovation, integrity, and collaboration, tackling some of the most significant challenges in science, security, and sustainability. If you're passionate about making a real impact and want to be part of a community that values ethical excellence, this is the place where your ambition can thrive.

Here, we believe that success comes from continuously pushing boundaries and working together to deliver on our promises. We embrace challenges with confidence and are dedicated to creating a secure and vibrant future for all.

We'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

Amentum is currently recruiting for a Principal Electrical, Control and Instrumentation (EC&I) Engineer to join our Energy business, which is entering an exciting phase of opportunity: supporting a key client's UK nuclear fleet through a business transformation; supporting new small and advanced modular reactor developers. Our work is varied, covering nuclear projects (Licensing, New Build, Generation, Life Extension, and Defueling), Renewable Energy projects and high energy industrial projects, such as data centres and hydrogen production facilities. In addition, we have opportunities across the wider business to help us to keep work interesting as you develop your career with us.

We're looking for a driven individual who embraces collaboration and diversity, and who shares our vision to create a secure and vibrant future by continuously reinventing, realising breakthroughs and taking on challenges with courage.

Our goal is to support development of new nuclear technologies and to keep existing power stations operating safely, contributing to the UK's Net Zero carbon target.

Your role will be to manage and deliver EC&I engineering solutions to time, cost and quality on projects of varying sizes. If you're familiar with project delivery, you'll know that they have lots of moving parts and complexity, which is why you'll be working alongside our Engineering Managers and Operations Managers to enable delivery of maximum value.

Central to the success of the role will be your people skills, building effective relationships and interacting with multiple internal and external stakeholders in multiple locations.

You'll also work closely with colleagues to support activities that offer the best service to the client. Through your interactions, you'll be able to gather useful intelligence on client needs and work with the team to deliver innovative solutions.

You'll utilise your strong communication and engagement skills to achieve client, people and business outcomes, working with your team and peers that are based in different locations across the UK.

We're continuously evolving and growing the business, so there's plenty of opportunity to evolve and grow your skills and career too.

This role will be based at one of our Energy offices (Newcastle, Warrington, Gloucester or Knutsford). We put flexibility at the heart of what we do and we're happy to consider flexible working patterns. Key responsibilities could include:

• Act as the Responsible Engineer and Technical Authority on major energy projects of varying sizes.
• Lead the definition of EC&I strategies, standards, and best practices across projects.
• Lead project delivery teams across the project lifecycle from bid generation, through concept and detailed design development to installation and commissioning.
• Take accountability for delivery of complex EC&I engineering packages to cost, time, and quality.
• Provide technical leadership, governance, and quality assurance for safety-critical systems.
• Work on systems integration, testing and validation of PLC, SCADA and simulator systems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the practical aspects of implementing engineering designs and understand the use of standards and compliance with regulatory requirements in an engineering environment.
• Produce high-quality technical reports.
• Engage with clients, regulators, and industry bodies at a senior level, building and maintain valuable relationships.
• Mentor and develop the engineering capability of the wider EC&I team.
• Drive innovation, digital tools, and continuous improvement in engineering delivery.
• Support business development, proposals, and client relationship management.
• Built and manage client relationships and leverage those relationships to deliver continued opportunities and new business leads.

Skills and Qualifications (the following list outlines desirable skills and qualifications. While these attributes are valued, we understand that applicants may not possess all of them. We therefore encourage applications from individuals with relevant experience and potential):

• MEng, MSc, BEng or BSc or equivalent in EC&I or another relevant discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional body.
• Previous team leadership, line management, technical lead or Responsible Engineer experience.
• Extensive experience in EC&I design and leadership within the nuclear sector or highly regulated environments.
• Deep knowledge of nuclear safety, regulation, and quality assurance processes.