Nuclear Safety & Environment (NS&E) Group Lead

Framatome; Bristol; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Professional body membership

Babbel language learning

Job summary

Framatome in the United Kingdom is seeking a Nuclear Safety & Environment (NS&E) Group Lead in Bristol to drive safety and environmental excellence across the NS&E discipline.

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, govern budgets and staffing, and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders while upholding nuclear safety culture. This is a senior UK role based in Bristol with responsibility for the NS&E scope across projects.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Proven leadership and people-management experience.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental regulations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee NS&E performance to ensure safety is the top priority.
• Ensure NS&E activities comply with standards, processes and tools.
• Coordinate interfaces with Projects, HPC, SZC and external partners.
• Support workforce planning, budgets and delivery in NS&E scope.
• Lead staff development, safety, wellbeing and performance reviews.
• Manage internal and external stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Safety culture

English fluency

French language

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Nuclear Safety & Environment (NS&E) Group Lead

Reference number: 2026-27072

Publication date: 7/13/2026

Category: S - HEALTH,SAFETY,SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - S3 - Environment

Job type: Non fixed term

Job location: United Kingdom, Bristol

Travel: No

Job family: Standard

Minimum level of education required: Master

Minimum level of experience required: Experienced

Responsibilities

• Working with the NS&E DM to ensure that safety is our top priority;
• Ensuring the quality of activities carried out across the four areas of the NS&E Discipline (including adherence to engineering manual, standards, processes, tools and methods);
• Handling internal interfaces with other parts of the Projects (HPC & SZC) Organisations in EPR-E, and external interfaces with multiple entities within the Clients (HPC & SZC) Organisations;
• Contributing to the Work Force Planning (WFP) and elaboration of Projects Task Orders (TOs), including definition of scope and associated budget, list of deliverables etc, for the NS&E scope of work;
• Ensuring that the staffing within the NS&E Discipline can meet the delivery requirements and is consistent with WFP and the budget constraints of HPC and SZC Projects;
• Managing the overall yearly budget (from HPC and SZC Projects) assigned to the delivery of activities by the NS&E Discipline;
• Delivering the NS&E Discipline in accordance with planning and quality, including definition of priorities when/if needed;
• Informing the Projects Safety Managers/Representatives of any risk, alert and technical issues on the NS&E scope of work;
• Providing the NS&E DM with input on potential risks and issues related to quality, workload, schedule, resources, competencies, budgets, etc.;
• Managing health and safety, work planning, succession management, quality assurance, skill development on the job, and budgets;
• Managing the relationship with all internal stakeholders (HPC and SZC Projects Counterparts, JDO-DT, Disciplines in Edvance and CNEPE, HR Correspondents for mother companies) and external stakeholders (Alliance Partners, NNB/SZC Co, Other Contractors) pertaining to the NS&E scope of activities;
• Recruitment of both mother company staff and partners by working with the NS&E DM to establish recruitment requirements, ensure timely review of CVs and selection decisions;
• Managing and developing technical competencies of NS&E staff: monitoring, follow-up, planning for the future and ensuring that the right training and tools are provided to all, including transfer of competencies between France and UK for HPC and SZC Projects;
• Providing pastoral care to all staff within the NS&E, including health and safety, wellbeing and creating a working environment consistent with the nuclear safety culture principles;
• Completing, for mother company staff, the required performance reviews and evaluations, professional development and objective setting.

Profile / Qualifications

• Adequate understanding of the technical environment in which the NS&E Discipline operates;
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant Health and Safety regulations;
• Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders;
• Ability to set, achieve and maintain high standards of safety and quality;
• Excellent negotiation, communication and people engagement skills;
• Exemplary team and pastoral management skills;
• Fluent in English;
• Working level of French.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per year rising by 1 day for every 2 years worked (max 30 days) + Bank Holidays
• 8% employer pension contribution with employee 1% contribution (salary sacrifice)
• Individual and family private health care
• Cashplan – Level 2 cover
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Professional Body Membership
• Tusker Electric car scheme (salary sacrifice)
• Cycle to Work scheme (salary sacrifice)
• Babbel – learn a new language
• Generous family leave – Maternity and paternity 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix. Everyone will be considered without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

The post is restricted due to the nature of the role and the export control regulations which apply. All applicants will be subject to national security and export control vetting processes.