Principal Engineer Regulation & Licensing

jobs24.co.uk; Bristol; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of the energy sector, where your expertise in safety leadership and regulatory frameworks can shape the future of nuclear energy. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence change at senior levels and deliver innovative consultancy to clients, ensuring the success of critical national infrastructure projects. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, you'll thrive in a collaborative environment that values your contributions and supports your professional development. If you're ready to tackle exciting challenges and make a real impact, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong influencing skills with a track record of senior-level engagement.
• Deep understanding of regulatory frameworks in safety-critical industries.

Responsibilities

• Provide collaborative advice to solve complex organizational change issues.
• Lead teams on complex projects delivering critical national infrastructure.

Skills

Safety Leadership

Influencing Skills

Interpersonal Sensitivity

Social Intelligence

Leadership Skills

Education

Chartered or Professional Engineer

Relevant Training and Experience

Job description

Let's shape the future of nuclear together. You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise, and knowledge. When you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. This is a great place to be. Ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life.

You are in a prominent position in your current job, with management and governance responsibilities and authority, and a strong expectation on your Safety Leadership competences. You have a track record of influencing at a senior level to achieve improvements. You make sound decisions when under pressure and are comfortable reaching conclusions based on limited information.

Your Purpose: Your strong influencing skills support an ability to persuade others by working collaboratively and flexibly with all stakeholders, especially those with the authority to support change. You show an appropriate balance of interpersonal sensitivity, self-awareness, and assertiveness and carefully choose your approach to match the situation. These skills are allied with social intelligence, humility, and leadership skills, including being comfortable with giving and receiving advice at all levels within a business, from those delivering operations to senior management at up to (potentially) Board executive levels.

You have a deep and demonstrable understanding of the regulatory framework for a high hazard and/or safety-critical industry and a track record in applying or helping others in applying it to facilities and operations and/or proposals for new facilities and activities - that may be UK based or may be another national framework. You are probably of Chartered or Professional Engineer status, possibly at Fellow level, or you have equivalent previous experience and history of responsibility supported by an appropriate training route and breadth of professional experience.

What You Can Bring:

• Can you provide collaborative and supportive advice and leadership to help solve complex permissioning and organizational change issues in a safety-critical utility industry?
• Are you energized by supporting our clients from operational to executive level in delivering critical national infrastructure capabilities including Carbon Net Zero ambitions?
• Do you have experience of helping people be a key part of assuring success in both programme and safety delivery, independent of the technology?
• Do you have experience of leading teams of staff of different skills and levels to deliver complex and evolving objectives?

The people we are looking for will be expected to deliver creative and innovative consultancy advice to existing and new clients who are critical to the success of future energy delivery. We have 2 posts to fill in early 2025, and we know that people of your quality do not come quickly. The posts are at either Chief Engineer or Principal Engineer level, with reward packages aligned to those roles, and with a differentiator of experience, ambition, and leadership behaviours.

The professional delivery context is against the UK's national regulation and licensing regimes, but we are looking for diversity in experience, education, and professional qualification such that who you are is at least as important to us as where you come from. You can expect to be leading teams on complex projects or being engaged with clients' leadership cohorts almost immediately, so you will not lack for interesting challenges.

Why Work for AtkinsRéalis? The UK is the first major economy to legislate for a Net Zero target by 2050. To achieve this, our Energy Teams are ensuring a mix of secure and sustainable energies that can meet our industry and lifestyle demands today, and in 30 years' time. We help to power our world through exciting new technologies and intelligent cybersecurity systems on projects that vary greatly in size, scope, and scale.

We value your diversity and believe that everyone deserves to thrive - no exceptions. You'll be part of a culture committed to finding new talent from underrepresented groups. We're Disability Confident, an Inclusive Employer, and support STEM Returners. We also want to see more women in senior roles at AtkinsRéalis.

Security clearance: This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.