Principal Safety Case Engineer

Simpson Booth Limited; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking a Principal Safety Case Engineer to manage safety cases on high-hazard projects. The role involves developing strategies, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and mentoring junior staff. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and have experience in safety case documentation. This is a full-time position, offering the chance to work on mission-critical projects in the nuclear sector.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of nuclear facilities and compliance arrangements.
• Experience managing teams delivering complex safety cases.
• Mentoring and developing junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide safety input to design projects and manage project delivery.
• Prepare and agree the Safety Case Strategy.
• Produce and approve technical documents and reports.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Hazard Management Strategy

Radiological Safety Assessments

ALARP Justification

Education

Bachelor Honours Degree in relevant science or engineering related discipline

Job description

Principal Safety Case Engineer (staff)

Role: Principal Safety Case Engineer (staff)

Description: Our client ensures security of energy supply and helps protect populations across the world by providing specialist project development, engineering and safety solutions across the nuclear lifecycle.

Are you experienced in developing safety cases for high‑hazard projects in the oil and gas, petrochemical, or pharmaceutical arenas? Our client is keen to review applications from experienced high‑hazard safety case personnel eager to transition into the nuclear sector for their mission‑critical, high‑stakes projects.

The Role

As a Principal Safety Case Engineer, your day‑to‑day responsibilities will cover all aspects of the business, from business winning to subsequent project delivery. You will be a key member with responsibility for developing the team, both internally and within the customer organisations.

You will use your expertise and knowledge to help develop the next generation of Safety Consultants throughout the client’s business portfolio.

Project Delivery

• Providing the nuclear safety input to design projects, ensuring that nuclear safety requirements are incorporated
• Preparing and agreeing the Safety Case Strategy
• Managing delivery for the work undertaken within their agreed remit against cost and programme to the satisfaction of the key stakeholders (Safety Case Managers, Safety Case Owners, client team, safety committee, INSA/Peer Review, NSC, regulators)
• Producing, verifying and approving calculations, analyses, design basis documentation and technical reports
• Acting as the point of contact for the key stakeholders, ensuring adequate communication between the engineering delivery team, construction experts, operators, safety assessors, site safety case managers and other stakeholders
• Leading and participating in hazard identification studies
• Co‑ordinating production of the safety submission including all specialist safety input
• Supporting submissions through the various review and approval stages
• Review and approval of design changes, concessions and technical queries
• Managing project risks by closing out safety items on the technical issues and risk register database
• Raising quality plans for single discipline work packages
• Producing, verifying and approving technical scopes of work, assessing tender returns, then verifying/assessing and/or approving the outputs to ensure that the requirements of the design sub‑contract are met
• Feeding back lessons learnt for use on future stages of the current project and other projects

Bid Support

• Providing safety case input to bids
• Peer reviewing bids and designs
• Producing estimates for bids
• Independent assessment of the technical basis of claims and disputes

Growth

• Building and maintaining customer relationships
• Growing the business through the identification and development of opportunities
• Representing the discipline to customers, regulatory and external bodies

Functional

• Maintaining awareness of wider industry processes and project developments
• Reviewing industry best practice for implementation
• Undertaking any special duties as may be specified from time to time by the functional leader
• Ensuring that deployed resources are suitably qualified and experienced personnel
• Directing and supervising the work of technical specialists within the same discipline

Processes

• Input to development of processes and procedures that are pragmatic, proportionate, scalable and widely applicable
• Ensuring that processes and procedures are correctly applied to technical activities

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor Honours Degree (minimum) in relevant science or engineering related discipline
• Demonstrable knowledge with cross‑industry experience and in‑depth knowledge of a wide range of nuclear facilities, their operations and site licence compliance arrangements
• Demonstrable experience in managing teams to deliver large, technically complex, fit‑for‑purpose safety cases
• Demonstrable experience in the mentoring, training and development of more junior staff
• Demonstrable problem‑solving, leadership and communication skills
• Demonstrable experience of directing and producing safety case documentation, for example:
  • Hazard Management Strategy
  • Radiological Safety Assessments
  • DBAA
  • Consequence Assessment
  • Derivation of SFRs
  • HAZOP Chair and production of HAZOP Reports
  • Safety Reports (PSRs, PCSRs etc. and equivalents)
  • ALARP Justification
• Demonstrable knowledge of specialist safety case disciplines, such as criticality assessment, shielding and dose assessment, environmental assessment, human factors
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of ONR Safety Assessment Principles and relevant legislation such as the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019, the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016, Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018, and IAEA SSR‑6 and associated transport legislation

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain SC Level security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering, Consulting, and Other. Energy Technology and Defense and Space Manufacturing.

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