Senior Stress Engineer

Your mission

Assystem is growing fast — and our stress and structural integrity capability is growing with it. We’re looking for a Senior/Principal Stress Engineer who is ready to take the next step into a technical and capability leadership role, helping to strengthen, grow and develop our UK stress engineering community.

This is a hybrid role: you’ll deliver high-value technical work for clients while also shaping the direction, tools, talent and strategy of our stress capability.

What You’ll Do:

🔧 Lead complex stress and structural integrity assessments using FEA and hand calculations

📄 Review and approve technical work, representing Assystem confidently with clients

🎓 Mentor and develop engineers, building future stress specialists

🌱 Drive capability growth — training, methods, best practices, recruitment and retention

📈 Support bids and business development, working closely with Engineering Directors and Sales

🤝 Collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams in the nuclear and defence sectors

What You’ll Bring:

🤝 To lead, build and guide a community of highly skilled stress engineers

🔧 Strong background in stress analysis / structural integrity

✨ Expertise in FEA (ABAQUS, ANSYS, etc.) and relevant assessment codes (ASME, BS7910, R6 etc.)

📚 Experience in the nuclear or similar highly regulated sector

🎓 Chartered Engineer status (CEng) or working toward it

⚡ Ability to develop and implement technical strategy and capability development

Why join the community of switchers:

📚 Ongoing training with numerous career opportunities.

📈 70% of our managers are promoted internally!

✨8% company pension contributions

⚡Discounts on restaurants, days out, and high-street brands

Additional information

Due to the nature of work to be undertaken applicants will be required to meet certain residency criteria in order to attain a minimum level of UK security clearance if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.