Employee Spotlight: Duncan Steel

Amentum is shining a spotlight on the talented engineers who are helping us to create a secure and vibrant future.

What is your role at Amentum?

I am a Group Director for Engineering Development at Amentum. I lead a team researching, developing, and delivering a wide range of engineering solutions to support client critical missions. 

Describe a typical workday at Amentum for you (Day in The Life):

Every day is varied. Typically, I spend most of my time between helping my team to find solutions or engaging with clients. My role now more involves spotting opportunities and then pulling our best teams together cross business. This often now involves remote handling, robotics, software or other novel engineering solutions to enable work in dangerous or harsh environments.

What do you enjoy about working for Amentum and what do you find most rewarding?

The clients we work for run mission critical projects in the energy, infrastructure and defence sectors.  These are fascinating and personally rewarding to work on. I also enjoy the collaborative and inclusive nature of how we work as a team and with our clients and that there is always something new to tackle on the horizon – we never stand still.   

What inspired you to pursue a career in engineering, and how has it shaped your journey at Amentum?

My father was in the Royal Air Force and was always making things, so I got my passion from him to explore and understand how everything works.  This means I look at everything with a curious mindset and then want to make things better.  Having performed many roles across many disciplines in my career this has shaped me to connect ideas and people to deliver integrated solutions to the markets we serve.

Any insights or perspectives you gained working for Amentum that you didn’t expect?

My previous role was customer side as CTO at Sellafield. Now working for Amentum I have developed experience looking from the other end of the telescope allowing these different perspectives to help build even stronger relationships between the company and our customers.