Senior Safety Case Consultant

Babcock International; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Senior Safety Case Engineer to manage safety assessments and engineering activities. This role requires Chartered Engineer status and offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects in the nuclear sector. Candidates will benefit from flexible working arrangements and comprehensive employee benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and matched pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefits

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting safety case consultants with queries.
• Demonstrable experience in varied tasks across complexities.

Responsibilities

• Develop hazard management strategies.
• Author radiological safety assessments and reports.
• Produce technical reports and calculations.
• Manage project delivery and oversee progress.
• Share best practices across projects.

Skills

Chartered Engineer status

Good communication skills

Experience in safety case consultancy

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent qualification

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Senior Safety Case Engineer. Location: Flexible - UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements. Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits. Role Type: Full Time, Permanent. Role ID: SF61039.

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Safety Case Engineer at one of our UK sites.

The role

As a Senior Safety Case Engineer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will manage the delivery of engineering and technical activities, through the application of process, domain knowledge and experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop hazard management strategies and participate in HAZID / HAZOP studies.
• Author radiological safety assessments, including Hazard Management Strategy, Safety Reports (PSRs and PCSRs etc. and equivalents).
• Produce and check calculations, design basis documentation and technical reports.
• Manage the delivery for the work undertaken by the Supply Chain as appropriate and maintain an overview of progress against cost and programme, and the management of project risks, for the work undertaken within their agreed remit.
• Maintain an overview of technical and safety case strategies being delivered, and the key arguments used, to share ‘best practice’ between projects.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, and offers hybrid working. This role is adaptable and can be delivered from various locations including Bristol, Warrington, Leicester.

Essential experience

• Chartered Engineer status (or actively working toward Chartered Status).
• Experience in supporting other safety case consultants with day to day queries.
• Demonstrable experience in covering a variety of tasks across a range of complexities.
• Good communications skills and the ability to interface with other disciplines.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in relevant engineering discipline, with significant demonstrable experience.

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).

What we Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish Nuclear employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• “Be Kind Day” enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 31/10/25