Nuclear Safety Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the nuclear sector seeks experienced Nuclear Safety Assurance professionals to join their growing team. The role involves consultancy on complex systems, ensuring safety and compliance within nuclear environments. Ideal candidates will possess significant experience and a relevant degree, contributing to impactful safety assessments.

Benefits

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Income Protection (75% of salary)

Annual bonus linked to company performance

Paid membership fees to a professional institution

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years delivery experience in nuclear safety assurance.
• Chartered Status with UK Engineering Council is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist consultancy services to clients.
• Influence design, operation, and maintenance of complex systems.

Skills

Nuclear Safety Assurance

Systems Safety Activities

Deterministic Safety Assessments

Probabilistic Safety Assessments

Radiological Consequence Assessment

Education

Bachelor / Master of Engineering/Science Degree

Job description

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Location: home working with occasional to offices (HO in Bristol) / client site

Clearance Required: SC

The Opportunity

As part of our growing nuclear business, we are seeking established Nuclear Safety Assurance individuals with particular experience of submarine power plants, civil nuclear and / or naval nuclear facilities.

This is a fantastic opportunity for self-starters to join a growing company that already has an excellent reputation for delivery. The successful candidate will be integral in helping to shape a growing company.

Day to day, you will work with clients providing specialist consultancy services and support business development activities. You will use your engineering knowledge to influence the design, operation and maintenance of complex systems to ensure that technical risks are identified, communicated and managed; and that the safety of those using or relying on the system is not compromised.

Requirements

To be successful in the role, you will ideally have:

• Bachelor / Master of Engineering/Science Degree (essential).
• Minimum of 6 years delivery experience in nuclear safety assurance including:
• Delivery of Systems Safety activities (inc. operational safety case development, hazard listing and fault schedule development, safety case report authoring, HAZOP, Bow Tie, ALARP optioneering etc.) (essential).
• Delivery of Deterministic Safety Assessments (design basis assessment, beyond design basis assessment, safety functional requirement derivation etc) (essential).
• Demonstrable knowledge of Authorising Conditions and Licensing Conditions for nuclear sites (essential).
• Demonstrable knowledge of PWR2 or PWR3 (desirable).
• Delivery of Probabilistic Safety Assessments (desirable).
• Radiological consequence assessment (desirable).
• Chartered Status with UK Engineering Council (desirable).

Candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

Why work with us?

We invest in our people. You will learn and grow with people dedicated to helping you succeed. We offer diverse and structured career paths for our people as they solve some of the complex multi-disciplinary problems for our clients. You will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and help forge our path for tomorrow. We are committed to support your work life balance and hybrid working arrangements. We have a set of core values that are everything to us. They are:

• Integrity
• Relationships
• Impact

We provide our people with excellent benefits package that comprises of:

• Life Assurance (4x salary) and Income Protection (75% of salary)
• Annual bonus linked to company performance
• Paid membership fees to a professional institution