Plant Layout Engineer

Are you an experienced engineer ready to take the next step in your career? Do you have expertise in areas like piping, mechanical, HVAC, or safety engineering, along with a solid grasp of industrial project layout standards? Are you confident in navigating complex environments, proactively resolving issues, and collaborating with a diverse team to ensure balanced solutions? If so, come and join EDF as a Plant Layout Engineer!

The Opportunity

EDF EPR Engineering UK (EPR-E) is tasked with delivering the design for several nuclear island (NI) buildings, systems, and equipment contracts for the Hinkley Point C EPR Project. This involves working through an integrated team, supporting HPC construction and commissioning efforts, and preparing design replication feasibility and engineering activities for the Sizewell C Project. As a result, a Technical Directorate is being established to oversee the engineering disciplines and technical expertise needed to successfully deliver these projects through EPR-E's integrated teams.

As a Plant Layout Engineer, you'll support building design projects by managing essential layout data and ensuring technical accuracy across process diagrams, equipment data, cable lists, and load information. You'll enhance layouts by coordinating the placement of mechanical and electrical systems, designing routes for pipes, HVAC ducts, and cable trays within a 3D model alongside a CAD team. Additionally, you'll produce technical documents such as progress reports, equipment notes, and impact analyses, issuing layout drawings to project teams and overseeing layout activities to meet compliance standards., Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

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We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing

You'll support the design and layout of building projects by ensuring technical accuracy and consistency in input data, such as diagrams, equipment data, and cable lists. You'll collaborate with a CAD team to position equipment, design pipe routes, and integrate HVAC and electrical components within a 3D model.

You'll also be responsible for preparing essential technical documents, including reports, equipment notes, and design procedures, and will distribute layout drawings to project teams, ensuring they meet compliance standards.

You will manage project changes effectively and oversee requested modifications, address technical issues, coordinate layout reviews, and support design companies in creating manufacturing deliverables.

Who you are

Being a Plant Layout Engineer means bringing expertise in engineering areas like piping, mechanical, HVAC, and safety to support complex projects in an industrial setting. You'll apply a solid understanding of layout standards for industrial projects, with a particular emphasis on safety protocols, especially within nuclear facilities, addressing aspects such as flooding, fire protection, and radiological safety.

You'll be comfortable identifying and communicating issues while working with diverse stakeholders to develop practical solutions that balance project needs. In a dynamic technical environment, you'll prioritise tasks by gathering input from multiple sources, always keeping the broader project context in mind to optimise cost and timelines.
We're looking for someone who thrives in technically challenging environment and is skilled in prioritising demands across teams.

EDF Energy is a core part of the EDF Group, one of the largest energy companies in Europe with key business operations in the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. We're the UK's largest producer of low-carbon electricity, the biggest supplier of electricity by volume in Great Britain, the largest supplier to British businesses and we employ more than 13,000 people. We operate nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat & power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We are playing a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK to secure a bright future for the combined business and its employees.
Aztec West, Bristol
- with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office.

Alongside a salary from £52,000 to £58,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We're talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.