PDMS Piping Designer

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.

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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.

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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 the Design and Engineering partner for Sellafield under the PPP (Programme and Project Partners). This is a 20-year arrangement to deliver £7bn of major projects. We are looking to recruit high value expertise from across regulated and comparable sectors to work in a collaborative environment. PPP is delivering major projects, site wide improvements and provision of supporting services.

The SIXEP Continuity Plant, being delivered by the Programme and Project Partners (PPP) at Sellafield, will ensure the site's existing Site Ion Exchange Effluent Plant (SIXEP) facility can continue its vital work for decades to come.

The newbuild SCP facility will play a vital part in Sellafield's purpose to create a clean and safe environment for future generations. Once operational SCP will ensure the nuclear site will have continued availability to treat and make safe the effluent created by risk reduction activities.

As a result of increasing demand for our services, there are significant opportunities for you to support a key project within the nuclear business.

We are currently looking for a PDMS Piping Designer to join the team in Birchwood.

The candidate would provide a supporting role to the Lead Piping Engineer to deliver the process services piping design packages. These include (but are not limited to) HP steam & condensate, process water, compressed air for process plant, active drains, bulk & bottle specialist gas systems and process feeds.

• Piping design using E3D (MODEL and DRAW).

• Production / checking of piping design deliverables.

• Participation in design reviews.

• Working collaboratively with all other engineering disciplines, in particular process and mechanical engineers and other designers.

• Input to & support the Lead Piping Engineer with progress reporting and ensuring successful, timely delivery of work packages.

As a PDMS Piping Designer you will already have:

• Piping layout / design for complex process plants (new build and brownfield modification).

• Production of piping design deliverables.

• Experienced in E3D (MODEL and DRAW).

• Experience of site liaison to resolve piping and coordination design issues.

• Fully conversant with relevant industry design guides and standards.

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