Thornton Tomasetti applies engineering and scientific principles to solve the world’s challenges. An independent organization of creative thinkers and innovative doers collaborating from offices worldwide, our mission is to bring our clients' ideas to life and, in the process, lay the groundwork for a better, more resilient future. We provide support and opportunities to our employees to achieve their full potential and cultivate a rewarding career.

Our Applied Science practice leverages a unique combination of technologies and expertise to engineer practical solutions to problems of national and international importance. We apply expertise in solid and fluid dynamics, materials science, acoustics, risk assessments, and computational simulation methods to solve complex problems. We perform research, mathematical modeling, software development, and design to manage risks to life safety in military platforms and installations, ships and submarines, critical infrastructure, tall buildings, public facilities, industrial and petrochemical plants, and automotive and airborne vehicles. Military, government, corporate, and academic clients value the validation of Applied Science’s software and the critical insights gained from correlating analysis with testing.

The Role

We have an opportunity for a Senior Engineer with at least 5 years’ experience to join the Thermofluids group of our Applied Science Practice, providing specialist technical support to clients across a range of sectors including energy (oil and gas, hydrogen, nuclear and renewables), energy storage systems, carbon capture and storage, infrastructure projects and defence.

The successful candidate will help solve a wide range of challenges by investigating, analyzing and resolving a range of technical questions across the full life cycle, from the development of new facilities, to the safe operation and ultimate decommissioning of existing facilities.

The UK-based Thermofluids team also collaborates extensively with colleagues in our Thornton Tomasetti US offices, and there will be opportunities to work with international teams supporting high profile projects particularly in decarbonisation and the built environment.

To support the work-life balance of our staff the Warrington office currently operates a hybrid working arrangement subject to client and company requirements.

Responsibilities

The candidate will work on a range of consultancy projects and interface with customers in the UK and overseas.

You will support others as well as lead projects across a range of workstreams and attend client meetings to present results and help with preparing project proposals as part of the office business development activity.

The candidate should be able to use their skills, experience, and judgement to support assessment of and design and enhance and improve the performance of engineering systems and processes to add value for client companies.

Requirements

Enthusiasm to work both in a team and independently.
Comfortable tackling new technical problems and ensuring attention to detail.
Capable undertaking both written reports and oral presentations.
Background in technical consultancy.
Robust understanding of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and heat transfer.
Experience of using programming software, such as Python or Matlab.
Experience of using commercial CFD packages such as ANSYS-CFX, ANSYS-Fluent, FLACS, OpenFOAM.

Qualifications

Degree (Masters and/or PhD preferred) in a relevant applied mathematics, physical science or engineering discipline OR equivalent training/experience.

Due to the nature of the work, the successful candidate will need to be able to obtain UK government security clearance. Eligibility requirements depend on individual circumstances.

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