Senior Process Modeller

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£56,596 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance)

Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week; flexible working requests are supported.

Culham, Oxfordshire

As Senior Process Modeller you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and updating the simulation environment and developing models for fusion fuel cycle systems to integrate into designs for a prototype fusion fuel cycle. The role will also contribute to the definition and analysis of experimental work required to generate data for model validation.

Requirements: completion of an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks. Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager.

• Responsible for development, validation, and implementation of models of hydrogen‑specific phenomena for fusion fuel cycle processes.
• Defining work packages for the multidisciplinary team, managing delivery to maintain quality standards, checks, reviews, and deadlines.
• Responsible for sourcing data for model validation from literature.
• Developing scope for experimental work required for model validation.
• Collaboration with other UKAEA departments and external partners.
• Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager.
• Ensure behaviour promotes safety, health and welfare of yourself and colleagues.
• Actively promote UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Represent and promote H3AT’s innovative offerings and technical specialisms internally and externally.

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a relocation allowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working options including family‑friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of employment.
• Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
• Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2½ privileged days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
• Wide range of career development opportunities.
• A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.

• A relevant engineering degree or equivalent.
• Experience in producing and validating computational models of process plant.
• Experience in producing and fitting kinetic models of chemical reactions or adsorption/desorption processes.
• Experience in design of process plant.
• Evidence of understanding of the technology development pipeline from concept to design.
• Ability to use statistical analysis for uncertainty quantification.
• Experience in process modelling using Aspen, including Aspen Dynamics.

UKAEA’s mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under‑represented from some groups and want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds, and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI networks actively promote inclusion and take steps to increase diversity within our organization.

We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email  if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on. Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon‑free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements.

Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow’s power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values:
Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.

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