Principal Safety Case Consultant -Nuclear

Highfield Professional Solutions Ltd; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive benefits

Career progression

Job summary

Highfield Professional Solutions Ltd is recruiting a Principal Safety Case Consultant to lead safety strategy for the UK’s most complex nuclear projects. You will provide technical leadership across diverse programmes, shape safety case strategies from concept through delivery, mentor consultants and ensure compliance with UK regulatory standards.

The role requires extensive nuclear safety case experience, leadership skills and a track record of delivering high‑quality safety documentation

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering nuclear safety cases across complex engineering projects.
• Strong knowledge of multidisciplinary engineering and its integration into safety case development.
• Familiarity with specialist safety disciplines and nuclear legislation/regulatory requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience leading and mentoring technical teams; Chartered Engineer status desirable or working toward chartership.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert leadership across the full project lifecycle of safety case activities.
• Lead safety case strategy development to ensure regulatory compliance and high technical quality.
• Mentor Safety Case Consultants to build capability within the team.
• Collaborate with engineering, design and specialist disciplines to deliver integrated safety solutions.

Skills

Nuclear safety cases

Multidisciplinary engineering

Criticality assessment

Shielding & dose assessment

Environmental assessment

Human factors

Nuclear regulations

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Chartered engineer

Education

Engineering or science degree

Chartered Engineer (desirable)

Job description

Principal Safety Case Consultant

Warrington | Bristol | Leicester | Hybrid Working
£70,000-£80,000 + Excellent Benefits
Full-Time | Permanent

Lead the Safety Strategy Behind the UK's Most Complex Nuclear Projects. Are you an experienced Principal Safety Case Consultant ready to lead high‑profile nuclear programmes and influence safety strategy at the highest level? We’re looking for an accomplished safety professional to provide technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of major nuclear projects. You’ll work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams, shape safety case strategies from concept through to delivery, mentor the next generation of consultants, and ensure compliance with the UK’s rigorous nuclear regulatory standards.

The Role

As a Principal Safety Case Consultant, you will provide expert leadership across the full project lifecycle, ensuring the successful delivery of complex safety case activities while driving technical quality and regulatory compliance.

• Provide nuclear safety expertise throughout design, development, and project delivery.
• Lead and facilitate HAZID and HAZOP studies while developing robust Hazard Management Strategies.
• Manage the production of radiological safety assessments, PSRs, PCSRs, and other key nuclear safety documentation.
• Define and lead safety case strategy, ensuring compliance with UK nuclear regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical oversight of supporting calculations, assessments, and engineering reports.
• Lead safety case delivery teams and coordinate work undertaken by specialist suppliers where required.
• Manage project delivery against programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Coach and mentor Safety Case Consultants to build capability across the wider team.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and specialist disciplines to deliver integrated safety solutions.

About You

You’ll bring: extensive experience delivering nuclear safety cases across complex engineering projects; strong knowledge of multidisciplinary engineering and its integration into safety case development; understanding of specialist safety disciplines such as criticality assessment, shielding and dose assessment, environmental assessment, and human factors; relevant nuclear legislation and regulatory requirements; excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; experience leading, coaching, and developing technical teams; an engineering or science degree (or equivalent experience); Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards chartership (desirable); eligibility to obtain and maintain SC Security Clearance.

What’s on Offer?

• Competitive salary of £70,000-£80,000
• Flexible hybrid working
• Generous annual leave
• Matched pension contributions and life assurance
• Digital GP service, annual health checks and wellbeing support
• Professional membership fees paid
• Employee share scheme
• Retail discounts and shopping savings portal
• Holiday trading scheme
• Paid volunteering day each year
• Additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists
• Genuine opportunities for career progression within a growing technical consultancy