Maintenance Engineer

About the role

Gauss Fusion is seeking an experienced mechanical engineer to lead the development of a robotic maintenance approach for their commercial-scale stellarator fusion power plant. The role involves designing automated systems to extract and replace in-vessel components like the breeder blanket and divertor within a complex and aggressive radiation environment. The successful candidate will define maintenance strategies to ensure high plant availability and lead the development of testing and demonstration systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Gauss Fusion maintenance approach to meet the requirements of a commercial scale fusion power plant design.
• Develop workable approaches to achieving high power plant availability, taking account of engineering and physics requirements across the reactor.
• Integrate these remote maintenance requirements into plant layout specifications.
• Define approaches to minimising hot cell inventory through efficient handling of removed components.
• Lead development of the breeder blanket and divertor segmentation and fixations resulting from these approaches.
• Lead development of remote maintenance testing and demonstration systems for the reactor.

Required skills

• Mechanical engineering
• CAD
• Engineering analysis tools
• Mechanical design
• Engineering mechanics
• Structural analysis
• Finite element analysis
• Kinematic analysis

Nice to have

• Remote maintenance systems
• Mechatronics
• Motion control
• Mechanical integration
• Digital mock-up
• Maintenance systems
• Inspection systems
• Intervention systems
• System engineering
• Requirements management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• Master’s degree
• Ph.D.

About the Company

Gauss Fusion is aiming to build the first commercial scale fusion power plant based on the stellarator concept.