System Design Stability Data Engineer

Job Title: System Design Stability Data Engineer

Employment Type: Contract

Job ID: 1831

Job Purpose / Overview

To provide professional, high quality engineering support to the HPC Project on behalf of the Plant Configuration Function of the NNB Technical Directorate and to ensure that the proposed design is compliant with UK regulations and context.

Contextual Information

There is an established UK-based New Nuclear Build team (NNB Genco) developing interests in new nuclear in the UK. The ambition is to construct and operate two new EPR's at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Each plant will cost several billion pounds to construct and at the operating stage will employ several hundred people.

The Plant Integration team is responsible for ensuring the configuration and control of the HPC Nuclear Power Plant design to underpin the timely and effective delivery of the overall project schedule. It assists with progressing aspects such as consistent design compliant to a set of agreed requirements and consistently implemented in the physical installation (also known as the "as build" configuration)

This role requires high levels of technical and organisational skills along with the ability to build strong working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

The post holder will demonstrate;

• The highest standards of focus on nuclear professionalism
• Compliance with health, safety, environment, and other statutory requirements relevant to this role
• Ability to work independently and be proactive and autonomous
• Ability to communicate effectively with various levels of the organisation and externally
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships

The post holder will be based in Aztec West Offices a minimum of 3 days per week with the rest of the time a mix of remote working or office and potential handful visits per year to the construction site

Principal Accountabilities

• Development of PowerBI dashboards drawing on databricks conformed data model
• Align business requirements, logic implemented in data model and reporting outputs
• Interface with wider IT, IIM, IDA stakeholders
• Support upskilling of team and adoption of more data-centric ways of working
• Databricks development in SQL and Python

In addition, the post-holder may be required to perform other tasks relevant for the project or to the personal development of the post holder.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Knowledge & Skills

• Degree in a relevant science or engineering subject or strong technical background preferred
• Experience within the Nuclear Industry useful but not mandatory
• Database management and coding skills
• Understanding of quality arrangements required and associated with nuclear plant construction preferred
• Proficient project management, organisational and Coordination skills
• Great communication skills and ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Decision making and escalation ability for resolution of issues
• Knowledge of budget and schedule management preferred

Qualifications & Experience

Behavioural Competences

• Relationship building skills
• Excellent communicator and be able to work independently
• Proactive
• Organisational skills
• Receptive to change
• Engineering or technical discipline experience
• Understanding of analysis tools and methods, combined with the ability to apply them
• Understand quality arrangements and preferably those associated with nuclear plant construction
• Understand engineering requirements
• Demonstrate ownership of a process and demonstrate proactivity in resolving Configuration Management issues
• Ability to extract and compile relevant data according to the task in hand, often from numerous sources
• Analysis of technical documents
• Performs analysis of data highlighting and summarising relevant issues
• Maintains accurate and timely records (systems, databases, spreadsheets).
• Can develop and adapt theories to deliver project milestones
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvements to procedures, processes and/or systems
• (optional) Possesses a broad knowledge of engineering principles in relation to power station design