Chief Nuclear Safety Engineer

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Chief Nuclear Safety Engineer to drive innovative assurance solutions within the nuclear sector. You will lead significant projects and contribute to the business growth while ensuring the highest safety standards. This role offers hybrid or remote options, supported by a generous salary package and a collaborative working culture.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering / science / Maths or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience in nuclear safety, assurance, and licensing.
• Established leader in nuclear safety.

Responsibilities

• Leading assurance activities from major project delivery.
• Providing technical oversight to nuclear assurance projects.
• Supporting the growth of the nuclear assurance community.

Skills

Nuclear Safety

Assurance

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Safety Culture

Education

Master’s degree in engineering/science/maths

Tools

BIM

Job description

Job Description

Chief Nuclear Safety Engineer - can be based anywhere in the UK - open to hybrid or remote - £90,000 - £115,000 + £6,500 car allowance + discretionary bonus

Job Description

Join us as a Chief Nuclear Safety Engineer in 'Aerospace, Defence, Security and Technology' (ADS&T) and play a pivotal role at enterprise, platform, or system level. You can be part of some of the largest, most high-profile Nuclear Defence projects or deliver more local, niche consultancy projects. This is a role that will keep you challenged: from developing innovative Safety Management solutions, to growing new areas of the business, and enabling the individuals in your division to thrive.

Your purpose:

• Winning work in the defence nuclear sector, working with our framework and market teams to design compelling technical assurance solutions.
• Leading assurance activities – from major project delivery working with the wider client capability, through to smaller consultancy tasks to solve key client problems.
• Shaping the wider business technical strategy, working with our discipline leads to ensure that the client is at the forefront of technical innovation, and that we have a shared vision across our client domains.
• Supporting the growth of the nuclear assurance technical community in ADS&T through the development and delivery of training, mentoring and coaching; and by supporting recruitment activities.
• Providing technical oversight to nuclear assurance projects – ensuring that we maintain the highest quality standards and ‘right first time’ delivery.

What you can bring:

• Master’s degree in engineering / science / Maths or equivalent experience with Chartered or Fellow status or working towards this.
• Extensive experience in nuclear safety, assurance and licensing in nuclear industry (civil nuclear and defence) with experience across the nuclear system engineering lifecycle (from new build to end of life and decommissioning).
• Established leader in nuclear safety and sets the highest standards for safety, security, quality, environmental protection, sustainability and ED&I. Able to undertake independent reviews on behalf of projects / clients.
• Able to build positive, productive relationships and networks and successfully engage with and influence stakeholders, including regulators, to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Extensive knowledge of UK nuclear regulatory regimes and current standards of safety assessment methods, including deterministic and probabilistic methods.
• Track record in the planning and implementation of safety case programmes for complex major projects – including Safety Case Manager or Director roles on high-category safety cases.
• Able to support business development and bidding activities [market analysis, opportunity identification, solution architect for bids, programme development, cost estimating, risk management, bring knowledge or wider market, trends, competitors etc.
• Able to establish high performing teams with a strong nuclear safety culture and shared aims / objectives. Able to support competency building of a growing technical team, through design of training programmes plus effective coaching and mentoring.

The Desirable technical attributes:

• Alpha facility experience.
• PWR2 / 3 experience.
• Docking infrastructure experience. Understanding of disciplines associated with safety: e.g. criticality, human factors, nuclear fire.
• Working knowledge of digital tools such as BIM.
• HAZID / HAZOP leader.
• Peer Review / Verification / Independent Technical Assessment. Experience working as a licensee, operator or regulator (including RN Submarine experience).