Mechanical Pressure Vessel Engineer
Company
Arabelle Solutions offers a broad portfolio of turbine island technologies and services that are used in more than a third of nuclear power plants globally – helping customers across the world deliver reliable power as they transition to a lower-carbon future. The Arabelle steam turbine is the most advanced of its kind and the company provides turbine island lifecycle support solutions for all nuclear reactor types – improving power output, reducing environmental footprint, and lowering operational cost. Arabelle Solutions has around 3,300 employees across 16 countries and is a subsidiary of EDF Group.
At Arabelle Solutions, we’re proud to design services and solutions that are generating power not just for today and tomorrow but for generations to come. You’ll work alongside passionate bright minds. We offer a broad range of opportunities for those eager to build tomorrow’s world. We believe a supportive culture is key to reach common goals. Diversity and an inclusive mindset makes us and our business stronger.
Position
Arabelle Solutions Nuclear Heat Exchanger engineering department needs to reinforce its international team with a lead mechanical engineer. The engineer will be in charge to perform the mechanical design of heat exchanger as per standard applicable rules and standard. Also, she or he must ensure the quality of the manufacturing drawing as per calculation and good engineering practice.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities :
The engineer will be in charge of:
- Executing if required the analytical mechanical calculations for the sizing of products during tender phase
- Executing contract and specification reading to identify critical areas prior designing equipment
- Executing the mechanical sizing of products considering client specifications and directives, internal guidelines, design instructions, input data and conception rules,
- Checking the manufacturing drawing of equipment are consistent with calculations,
- Participating to internal design review
- Participating on demand to the client clarification meetings
- Working in interface with thermal engineering and manufacturing quality teams for design optimization
- Being able to challenge Mechanical integrity team by checking boundary conditions of Finite Element model and calculation results
- Being able to answer to customer issues
- Review the Concession Request(s) (CR) and / or Non-Conformity Report (NCR) related to Products in manufacturing
Profile
Qualification / Requirements :
- Experience in power plant engineering is nice to have,
- Knowledge of Nuclear industry / engineering helpful (but not mandatory)
- Knowledge in pressure vessel codes and heat exchange equipment standards and guidelines is helpful (ASME, EN13445, CODAP, AD2000, WRC107, RCCM, GB-150, TEMA, HEI helpful),
- Strong Knowledge of mechanical engineering physics
- Strong Knowledge of FEA principles, skills in FEA software (as ANSYS) helpful (but not mandatory)
- Understanding of vessels and heater exchangers thermal design concepts.
- Skills on at least one pressure vessel calculation software (AutoPipe Vessel, Compress, PVElite) is nice to have
- Good knowledge in structure codes (Like Eurocode 3, CM 66)
- High Competence in engineering technical drawings construction and drawings good engineering practices, familiar with CAD tools: CATIA, Autodesk products or equivalent.
Desired:
- Rigorous and autonomous
- Excellent communication skills in an international team,
- Good level in Solving problem
- Good analytical and synthetical mindset
- Resilient, self-confident and accountable.
- Customer oriented
- Proactive in collecting data needed
- Ability to take short duration trips
- English fluent
This role is an PB position.