Neutronics & Fluid Dynamics Team Leader

Working arrangements

Please note this role does offer hybrid working, our model sets out a minimum 60% onsite / 40% home working split

Part time working or job share options will be reviewed on an individual basis.

Working alongside the Head of Plant Prediction & Simulation, this is an opportunity for a talented and natural leader to manage a world‑class team of engineers focusing upon neutronics & fluid dynamics in order to support the development of key technologies needed for a fusion power plant. Specifically, the successful candidate will lead the development of technical capability and manage the group responsible for neutronics and fluid dynamics.

• Line-manage a multidisciplinary technical team under the neutronics and fluid dynamics group
• Support subject matter experts in Radiation Measurement and Dosimetry
• Drive the delivery of R&D activities and work with external collaborations with academia and industrial partners for developing methods, workflows, demonstrations, and analysis tools
• Ensure a safe system of work within the team with relevant hazards identified, risks assessed and mitigated with adequate departmental processes in place and ensuring these are followed, including driving continuous improvement through lessons learned and quality management.
• Operate technology development roadmaps and, work schedules – ensuring risks, costs and resources have adequate governance and technical oversight
• Work within the Plant Prediction and Simulation department, play a key role in the development of 3D models of prototype fusion energy devices and their systems
• Act as the senior authority for the technical and computational functions ensuring deliverables to programmes are On Time, On Quality, and On Cost – meeting project plans and business milestones
• Ensure all team members are suitably recruited, motivated, resourced and inspired to deliver against SMART objectives
• Identify, develop, and protect Intellectual Property with a view to commercialisation of relevant technology

• Experience performing, checking, and validating neutronics models, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD) models.
• Experience with computational methods used in radiation transport analyses – especially Monte Carlo and Deterministic methods, ideally MCNP6, GEANT4 and Attila – and the pre- and post- processing of results with structured and unstructured meshes.
• Experience with computational methods used in fluid dynamics – especially in OpenFOAM and COMSOL with some understanding of MHD
• Ability to line manage through effective communication and buy-in to a clear vision, setting SMART objectives, good motivational skills and sound resource planning.
• Substantive technical experience in the theory and modelling of computational analysis
• Proven experience of managing a team’s required deliverables and milestones against project objectives
• Ability to recruit, build, and lead a high-performing technical teams
• Experience in hazard identification, risk assessments, and ensuring safe systems of work – driving safety standards in teams
• A proven ability to communicate technical and non-technical information effectively and persuasively at all levels: to senior management, stakeholders, collaborators, colleagues and staff
• A basic awareness of the principles of Intellectual Property law and how businesses may protect their Intellectual Property would be desirable.

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays and 3 festive days to be used between Christmas and the New Year)
• Company pension scheme
• Eligible for company share option scheme
• Company bonus scheme, discretionary, dependant on performance
• A range of financial benefits including death in service and critical illness cover
• Cycle to work scheme

• Working at height (ladders, scissor lifts, cherry pickers & scaffolding)
• Night working (11pm-6am)
• Work in hot or cold environments
• Driving on Company business
• Working with ionising radiation
• Work with cryogenic fluids including liquid nitrogen
• Working with or in the vicinity of equipment that produces high magnetic fields
• Working with materials…