Graduate Engineer

Location: Egremont, Cumbria / Preston, Lancashire / Haydock, Merseyside

Job type: Permanent / Full time / Hybrid (3 days per week from site)

Salary: £32k-£35k

Delkia is a specialist engineering and technology company for safety-related and mission critical systems in highly regulated sectors, including aerospace, clean energy and maritime sectors. Our offer incorporates: engineering design, technical consultancy and systems integration.

We believe that engineering is not just about technology, manufacturing and innovation. It’s about the people behind it. Delkia ensures that its teams are the focus of its business through passion, belief and simply a better way of working, resulting in great outcomes for our customers. We’re also proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and invest in future talent through supporting STEM initiatives, apprenticeships, placements and summer interns.

The company’s Head Office is at Westlake's Science and Technology Park in West Cumbria, with systems integration, assembly & testing facilities in Egremont, Cumbria and design offices in Preston, Lancashire. This is augmented by a manufacturing and test facility at Haydock, Merseyside.

Come and join a company that values our people and is growing fast.

Overview of the role:

Successful candidates will be passionate and energetic about applying scientific and engineering principles towards complex problems, contributing to a multidisciplinary team of engineers to develop ideas, and able and willing to brief and present complex issues and plans to clients.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Assist in production of conceptual designs, optioneering studies, requirements capture, user requirements specification and use cases.
• Experience in designing for functional safety systems is desirable.
• Have experience of engineering lifecycles and maturity management.
• Contribute to pragmatic systems solutions from a brief problem statement.
• Maintain compliance with Engineering Standards and applicable legislation.
• Participate in Design and System Level Reviews. Ensure that subsequent design meets the project and client requirements.
• Ensure the confidentiality and security of data and information received from clients is upheld.
• Learning and developing to enhance your skillsets!

What you’ll bring:

• Passion and enthusiasm toward solving complex technical challenges
• A willingness to learn and develop personal and professional skillsets
• A positive mindset and able to converse with people from all demographics
• Inquisitive and curious about the nuclear, defence, space and cyber sectors.

What you’ll need:

• Must be able to obtain or hold suitable security clearance
• British National (single national only)
• Conversant with the Office 365 suite of software
• Clear DBS certificate
• Able to drive

Nice to have:

Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate in the following subjects, or subjects closely related to

Aerospace Engineering

Advanced Control Systems

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Marine Engineering

Comms and Signal Processing

Nuclear Engineering

Process Engineering

Systems Engineering

Software Engineering

Safety Engineering

Technical Project Management

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working
• Training and development
• Excellent company standards
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Health care
• Company bonus scheme
• Birthday leave
• Great team spirit
• Organised social events
• Professional membership

Our Vision:

To be the UK’s leading engineering and technology partner for safety-related and mission-critical systems.

Our Mission:

To enable a safer, more resilient world through the provision of engineering and technological solutions. We take pride in our role as a partner for safety-critical systems, ensuring the protection of people, assets, and missions that matter most.

Our Values:

• Collaboration and teamwork
• Integrity, trust and accountability
• Safety and security
• Client focused
• Positive social value and impact
• Continuous improvement

Our Purpose:

At Delkia we are driven by our purpose to protect lives and critical assets.

Equal opportunities: Delkia is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Please be aware that many roles working for Delkia will be subject to UK national security vetting restrictions. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and satisfy requirements for national security vetting clearance as appropriate.

All applications will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch to discuss.

Note to Agencies: Delkia has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. Please note that any unsolicited CVs submitted will be deemed as gifted to Delkia and any terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be null and void.