System Engineer (Nuclear)

Location: Wimborne, UK

Company

Curtiss-Wright Wimborne develops sensors, instrumentation, and control solutions for harsh environments and mission-critical applications in heavily regulated markets including nuclear, aerospace, and oil and gas.

What you will do

• Support safety and systems engineering activities for projects involving reactor protection instrumentation.
• Draft and estimate systems engineering tasks for bid work.
• Apply systems engineering processes, standards, and methodologies across projects.
• Generate, maintain, and obtain formal approval for systems documentation.
• Use systems engineering tools for requirements management and design modelling.
• Represent systems engineering to project and customer stakeholders, mentor junior team members, and support design, production, testing, and process improvement activities.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, preferably electrical or electronic engineering.
• Experience in safety engineering, systems engineering, or design within a safety-regulated industry.
• Knowledge of safety system design according to IEC 61508 or similar standards, including IEC 61513 and IEC 61226.
• Good knowledge of systems engineering processes, standards, and methodologies such as IEC 15288 and UML.
• Good knowledge of DOORS for requirements management.
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or progress toward membership of a relevant institution, is advantageous.
• Effective communication across technical and business disciplines is desirable.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position supporting a flagship UK nuclear engineering development programme for Rolls-Royce SMR.
• Work in a heavily regulated environment where safety and reliability are priorities.
• The position may involve exposure to export-controlled information and additional security screening; ineligibility may result in an offer being reconsidered or withdrawn.
• No unsolicited agency submissions are accepted; agency partners must be invited and have signed terms before submitting candidates.