Senior Engineer - Tanks and Vessels

Senior Engineer - Tanks and Vessels page is loaded Senior Engineer - Tanks and Vesselslocations: Manchester: Warrington, UK: Derby, UKtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR100639 About Rolls Royce SMR Our mission is simple but ambitious: to deliver clean, affordable energy for all. Rolls Royce SMR is developing a new generation of Small Modular Reactors a uniquely British, scalable solution to the global energy challenge. Our technology places us in prime position to become a world leader in SMRs and the UK's premier green export.We are bringing together the best of advanced manufacturing, nuclear innovation, and engineering excellence to help the world decarbonise and secure its energy future. The Team You will join our Plant Equipment team, home to experts responsible for the design, development, integration, and assurance of plant wide Tanks & Vessels used across the SMR.The team ensures that these critical components meet the highest technical, regulatory, and safety standards - enabling safe operation, cost effective manufacturing, and long term asset performance. Their work directly shapes the maturity of the SMR product, supports global customers, and enables Rolls Royce SMR to scale internationally. Role Summary Job Title: Senior Engineer - Tanks & Vessels This role provides a unique opportunity to lead the technical development of a key class of components essential to the SMR design. As a Senior Engineer, you will shape the strategy, maturity, and integration of Tanks & Vessels across the plant, ensuring they meet world class standards in performance, safety, manufacturability, and lifecycle value.Your contribution will be critical to ensuring technical excellence, supporting customer and regulatory engagement, and building a capability that will grow as the business expands. What You'll Be Doing In this role, you will: Lead the technical maturity of the full Tanks & Vessels product range. Develop and implement programmes that align product delivery with design, cost, and schedule milestones. Act as an intelligent customer, working closely with suppliers on specification development, vendor selection, and product verification. Ensure governance and quality, overseeing outputs from the Tanks & Vessels team. Apply engineering judgement across design, analysis, manufacturing feasibility, safety case inputs, verification and validation. Represent Tanks & Vessels in cross functional meetings, technical reviews, and stakeholder engagements. Build strong relationships with internal teams, customers, regulators, and suppliers. Lead and support a small engineering team, helping foster collaboration, technical rigour, and a positive, inclusive culture. Manage programme risks, dependencies, and mitigation activities. Contribute to strategic growth, supporting the future expansion of the Plant Equipment team. Travel occasionally between sites as required. The Impact You'll Make In this role, you will: Shape a critical part of the SMR design, influencing how the technology is standardised, manufactured, and deployed globally. Enable the successful delivery of a generational programme that will transform the energy sector. Contribute to a first of its kind engineering solution, with real impact on carbon reduction and energy security. Support future UK export capability in a rapidly expanding international market.This is a role where your technical expertise will directly influence a clean energy technology with global reach. Essential Qualifications & Experience You will bring: Experience in the design, analysis, manufacture, installation or maintenance of tanks, vessels, or pressure equipment. Strong understanding of product development within supply chains, including supplier engagement and specification development. Knowledge of relevant industry codes and standards (e.g., ASME III, ASME VIII, EN13445, PED/PSSR). Experience working across multiple lifecycle stages (e.g., design, verification, safety case contributions). Ability to lead integrated programmes, manage uncertainty, and drive progress. Experience communicating with a broad stakeholder set, internally and externally. Ability to lead a small team and contribute to a positive, inclusive culture. A relevant engineering degree, HND, or equivalent experience, and ideally progress toward professional recognition. Pay and Benefits We anticipate paying a salary of between £50,650 - £66,500 plus:- Bonus - Performance related target opportunity 12.5% Benefits Allowance - £2,200 per annum, enabling you to create a bespoke package Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions. Holidays - 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days. Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover health care Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay £250 - One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases Location & Ways of Working We offer flexible, hybrid working with office locations in Derby, Warrington, or Manchester. Office attendance will be discussed during the recruitment process, based on team needs and individual circumstances.You'll be joining a forward-thinking organisation that values transparency, fairness, and innovation. We offer:• A flexible, inclusive, and supportive working environment. • Opportunities for career growth in a rapidly scaling business. • A culture that values diversity, innovation, and continuous learning.We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Inclusivity is important to us, and as a Disability Confident organisation, we are committed to fair, supportive, and continually improving recruitment practices that ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive.Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch - we welcome applications from people with transferable skills. Our Application Process Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:• Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance • Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check • Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check We are Rolls-Royce SMR A career with Rolls-Royce SMR offers a unique opportunity to contribute to an exciting organisation delivering a transformational mission. Rolls-Royce SMR is a radically different approach to proven nuclear technology. Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will generate 470MW of low-carbon energy - equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes for over 60 years. With its Rolls-Royce SMRs will play a vital role in supporting renewable energy by helping to overcome intermittency and ensure a stable, sustainable energy future. We're proud to be one of the few employers that can genuinely say we're a strengths-based organisation. Our people are here because of what makes them exceptional - and our role is to help them make the most meaningful contribution of their careers, doing work they love. We offer opportunities that go beyond traditional career paths. At Rolls-Royce SMR you can develop your career by exploring roles and challenges that align with your unique talents. Our culture At Rolls-Royce SMR, we are committed to ensuring that our teams reflect the communities we serve and that everyone can be themselves at work. We know that diverse teams are more innovative and