Senior Manufacturing – Welding Engineer
KBR, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bristol • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £65,000 - £80,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide engineering support on welding of ferrous and non-ferrous materials, including common steels and nickel-based alloys.
- Assess and demonstrate safety/integrity of welds using appropriate evidence, arguments, and engineering judgement.
- Interpret weld and substrate microstructures and explain how they influence mechanical performance (e.g., toughness, fatigue, creep, corrosion/SSC/IASCC where relevant).
- Apply and interpret codes and standards, with particular interest in RCC-M and ASME (plus associated welding/NDT standards).
- Plan and support materials and weld testing programmes, including: Mechanical testing (tensile, impact, hardness, fracture, fatigue/creep as needed) Chemical analysis (PMI, OES/ICP as appropriate) NDT (e.g., UT/PAUT, RT, PT, MT, VT) and interpretation of results.
- Maintain awareness of nuclear regulatory expectations and industry best practice relevant to manufacturing and weld integrity.
- Prepare and review technical documentation: specifications, technical substantiation, procedures, test plans, and compliance reports.
- Collaborate with manufacturing partners/suppliers to resolve weldability issues, deviations, NCRs, and qualification evidence.
- Capability development & mentoring: As part of our growing manufacturing capability, you’ll help shape and continually improve defined development pathways—upskilling junior mechanical/materials engineers (through on-the-job learning and formal qualifications) in manufacturing, primary metal processes, and welding technologies, while actively mentoring and coaching engineers as they develop.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of welding metallurgy for steels and nickel alloys (weld processes, HAZ behaviour, typical weld defects, and mitigation).
- Demonstrable experience supporting weld integrity / safety justification (e.g., qualification evidence, defect assessment inputs, substantiation reports).
- Confidence linking microstructure ↔ properties ↔ performance for welds and parent material.
- Working knowledge of relevant codes/standards (strong interest in RCC-M and ASME).
- Experience supporting or interfacing with test laboratories and/or NDT providers; able to specify, review, and interpret test outcomes.
- Able to write clear technical documentation suitable for regulated industries.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with yearly reviews
- 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.
- A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.
- Happy to talk flexible working
- Enhanced parental benefits
- Company pension scheme
- Targeted professional development
- Life assurance
- Private healthcare membership
- Bonus scheme linked into company performance
- Paid membership fees to a professional institution
- Support in attaining professional membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season rail ticket loan
- And further optional benefits you can tailor to your personal requirements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
welding metallurgyweld integritymicrostructure analysismechanical testingchemical analysisnon-destructive testing (NDT)weld processesweld defects mitigationtechnical documentation writingsafety justification
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringcoachingcommunicationproblem-solvingtechnical substantiationplanningorganizational skillsengineering judgementinterpersonal skills