Nuclear Safety Case & Emergency Preparedness Consultant

ZipRecruiter; Whitehaven; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in nuclear safety seeks a professional to leverage nuclear engineering and risk management skills. Ideal candidates will have a STEM background and experience with safety cases in regulated environments. This role offers flexible working arrangements and a competitive benefits package, fostering an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

25 days' holiday entitlement plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• STEM background of experience and education required.
• Experience in nuclear safety cases preferred.
• Ability to prepare technical reports is needed.

Responsibilities

• Identify hazards and vulnerabilities.
• Author safety cases.
• Manage risk effectively.

Skills

Safety case experience

Risk management

Hazard identification

Emergency preparedness

Education

Degree in a STEM subject

Tools

HAZOP

FMEA

FTA

Event Tree Analysis

Job description

Job Description

An opportunity to build on your existing nuclear safety case experience in nuclear engineering, risk management and emergency preparedness. You will be supporting a specific highly regulated Licensee in Cumbria. This role is based in the North West with flexible working arrangements. This opportunity will involve you working as part of multi-person team, with support from colleagues across the wider organisation. Outside of that specific workstream, you will be supporting and helping to develop the capability of our team providing consultancy services spanning Safety Case, emergency preparedness and Security & Resilience. This provides a stimulating mix of consultancy, engineering and analysis, along with the delivery of challenging and sometimes unique projects to clients in the nuclear and high hazard sectors in the UK and beyond. The outputs of the projects you will be supporting will put into use by downstream stakeholders from the client site and beyond to manage the changing hazard profile of their facilities and activities and refine their risk management capabilities. Your efforts will make a difference.

Responsibilities

• Identify hazards and vulnerabilities.
• Author safety cases.
• Manage risk effectively.

Qualifications

A STEM background of experience and education. This may include a degree qualification in a STEM subject, equally valid is any other route which demonstrates credibility and competence levels.

Given the nature of current and future work, we prefer those with:

• Safety case experience relevant to that Licensee or other nuclear decommissioning and waste management experience.
• Familiarity and understanding of nuclear safety cases.
• Either the experience or the appetite to interrogate Radiological Consequence Assessments and adapt them appropriately to the contexts of specialist assessments.
• Experience in preparing Technical Reports
• Demonstrable experience in applying safety and risk engineering processes to:

• Identify hazards and vulnerabilities.
• Author safety cases.
• Manage risk effectively.

Desirable Skills:

• Hazard identification, assessment, and management techniques (e.g., HAZOP, FMEA, FTA, Event Tree Analysis, Hazard Logs).
• REPPIR (Radiation Emergency Preparedness and Public Information Regulations).
• Resilience & Emergency Preparedness.
• Severe Accident Analysis.
• Cyber Security.
• Nuclear Security Assessments.
• Personal / Mindset Specification.

Additional Information

• We offer a competitive benefits package including:
• Flexible working arrangements to suit individuals
• 25 days' holiday entitlement plus bank holidays
• Ability to sell or purchase leave
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Paid membership of two professional institutions/organisations
• Cycle to work scheme

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people's ability to dare are the only things that matter. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.