Senior Piping Stress Engineer

Location: Hull, GB, HU13 0GD Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF68236

As a Senior Piping Stress Engineer, you'll be at the heart of one of the UK's most strategically important nuclear programmes. This is a chance to work on a project that truly matters, while advancing your career in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment.

Cavendish Nuclear is partnering with Springfield Fuels Limited to deliver a brand new reactor facility at the Springfields site in Preston that will convert Reprocessed Uranium into UF6 at a scale of 2,500 tonnes per year. The project features a new RepU conversion plant, a Fluorine Production Plant, and modern support facilities, slated to be operational by 2031.

• Perform piping stress analysis using Hexagon Caesar II and PV Elite.
• Review and approve vendor designs, drawings, and technical documentation.
• Coordinate with piping engineers, designers, and other disciplines to ensure seamless project delivery.
• Develop and finalise stress analysis design basis, critical line lists, and support specifications.
• Attend client and subcontractor meetings, providing technical expertise and guidance.

This is a permanent, full time role working 37 hours per week based in Warrington (Cheshire) or Humberside (East Yorkshire).

• Proven experience with Hexagon Caesar II for pipe stress analysis.
• Proficiency in Hexagon PV Elite for pressure vessel analysis.
• Strong knowledge of ASME B31.1 and B31.3 piping codes, plus BS EN standards for pressure and industrial piping.

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 day special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave. This window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' provides one paid day a year (or equivalent hours) for volunteering.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package, including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

• Competitive Salary + Benefits.
• Healthcare and wellbeing support.
• Flexible working arrangements.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.