Graduate Mechanical Engineer (Asset Integrity - Energy)

Do you enjoy solving real-life problems and learning from industry leading experts? Do you want to work on a variety of projects that touch all aspects of the energy transition?

Here at DNV, what we do matters. Whether it’s helping the Energy Industry transition to a more decarbonised and sustainable future or helping safeguard life, property and the environment, every day, what you do will make a difference. This is our shared purpose and one our people are proud to be part of.

Our highly respected Risk Advisory department in the UK and Ireland, is primarily responsible for the delivery of consultancy-based safety, integrity and risk management services. We provide high quality advisory services to the onshore and offshore oil and gas sector (upstream, midstream and downstream) and increasingly, provide similar services to the evolving hydrogen, carbon dioxide and renewables sectors.

Within this, our specialist integrity teams deliver a range of critical consultancy services such as failure investigation, fitness for service assessment, stress analysis, life extension, risk-based inspection, asset health assessment, vibration assessment and risk management, to operators in support of their ongoing operations.

We are also leading our industry in advising clients how to repurpose their existing assets for the transportation of hydrogen or carbon dioxide to support the energy transition and deliver the innovative solutions that our industry and planet needs. This multi-disciplinary approach, with materials and integrity engineers working alongside our other discipline experts drawn from safety, flow assurance and rotating equipment, is what makes what we do, unique.

Our Opportunity:

As a Graduate Mechanical Engineer within our growing Asset Integrity Section, you will support clients across the energy industry through the provision of advisory services and consultancy, to manage the mechanical integrity of production, transmission, and distribution energy / oil & gas assets throughout our client’s asset life cycle.

With guidance from your colleagues, you will be responsible for delivering projects across all stages, including proposal preparation, methodology development, analysis, reporting, and the formulation of recommendations and solutions that fulfil client expectations.

You will have the opportunity to collaborate with both our Fitness For Service (FFS) and Vibration and Asset Health (VAH) teams, gaining comprehensive experience across our service offerings, which include:

• Development and implementation of methods for managing fitness-for-service assessments for pressure equipment, tanks, and pipelines, including identifying degradation mechanisms in pressure vessels and pipelines and delivering cost-effective remedial solutions
• Conducting pipework and structural vibration measurements and investigations across operational assets to identify root causes and assess risk, while supporting comprehensive analytical work through engineering calculations, data interpretation, and technical analysis
• Theoretical analysis of vibration, and fluid pulsation and noise issues
• Failure and mechanical integrity investigations
• Conducting plant condition assessments to support operational integrity and safety objectives, perform compressor testing to ensure safe and efficient operation, and carry out plant surveys to verify compliance of compressor safety equipment
• Technology qualification and research

Our structured Graduate Programme therefore, provides a fantastic start to your career, enhancing both your technical and professional skills, whilst supporting your journey towards chartership and becoming an expert in your field. There will also be opportunities for working across our other specialist Asset Integrity / Risk Advisory teams and wider DNV group, on a range of exciting, energy asset technology projects. You will have opportunities to travel to client sites across the UK to support on site data collection activities.

You’ll be stretched but always supported, so don’t worry if the Energy industry or some of the terminology is unfamiliar to you, we’ll teach you all you need to know. Upon joining, you’ll receive a buddy to help you settle in, a mentor to enhance your technical knowledge, as well as ongoing on-the-job coaching and support from your colleagues.

Primarily based at our office in Loughborough (Leicestershire), you’ll initially be in the office most days, helping you get fully immersed with your colleagues and the work you will be doing. Once you’re settled into the role and fully up to speed, we offer a more hybrid model of working—typically a 3/2 split between office and home—to give you the best balance of collaboration and autonomy.

The role will also include some work at customer offices and sites in the UK and overseas, with offshore assignments a possibility, and will therefore require flexibility and a willingness to work on short to medium term assignments as required.