Noise & Vibration Engineer (Senior Technical Advisor)

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KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 29 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.

KBR is looking for a Senior Technical Advisor: Noise and Vibration Engineer to join our team in Leatherhead, supporting our global design and engineering Projects.

You’ll be working as part of a wider Technical Safety and Environmental Team across a range of industry sectors to deliver world class Projects. Industrial acoustics addresses noise and vibration control in Process Equipment, Piping, Valves, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Public Address General Alarm (PAGA), and architecture. KBR is committed to helping our customers deliver a more sustainable future through the solutions we provide.

Roles and Responsibilities

• You will support design development and engineering work in the discipline of industrial acoustics. Your work will include:
  • Identifying Project specific legislation, standards, codes, practices and procedures.
  • Developing philosophies, or basis of design.
  • Developing calculations or models.
  • Compare predicted N&V levels against the required limits.
  • Support Projects in the identification of noise and vibration reduction, control or mitigation measures.
  • Supporting Package Responsible Engineers (PRE) through procurement phase particularly during vendor liaisons.
• Under broad direction, you will interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate assignments.
• Apply advanced theories, concepts, principles, and processes for an assigned area of responsibility.

Skills and experience

• Expert level understanding of several areas of noise and vibration, with a good understanding of all other areas.
• Able to check and confirm completeness of deliverables.
• Experience in leading project work on FEED or EPC projects.
• A relevant number of years of experience.

Educational experience

• BEng or equivalent in science or engineering.
• Master’s degree in engineering (preferred).
• Chartered Engineer: membership of an accredited Institution, e.g. Institute of Acoustics (preferred).

KBR Company Information

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.
 

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

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