Safety Case Engineer
Location: Gloucester / London, (2 days in the office per week).
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Closing Date: Wednesday 17th June2026
What’s in It for You
- Salary: £56,000 – £66,500 per annum, depending on experience
- Bonus: 5% annual incentive
- Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
- Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
Your Impact
The Nuclear Safety Case Engineer is a key role within the Sizewell C Design Authority, reporting directly to the Safety Case Group Lead. This position offers the opportunity to play a central role in the development and delivery of the project’s nuclear safety case strategy.
You will lead the development of a range of complex nuclear safety cases, ensuring they are robust, compliant, and aligned with regulatory expectations. This includes ownership and coordination of SZC’s top-level safety case-currently the Pre-Construction Safety Report (PCSR)-as well as supporting the evolution toward the Pre-Commissioning Safety Report (PCmSR) in the next phase of the project.
Working collaboratively across engineering, design, and regulatory teams, you will ensure that safety arguments are clearly articulated, evidence-based, and integrated across all aspects of the plant design and lifecycle.
Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions
- Own the safety case during the design, construction and commissioning phases, advising the regulator, internal stakeholders and the responsible designer on its adequacy.
- Lead PCSR and PCmSR section development, including strategy setting, team leadership, and progression through the safety case lifecycle (authoring, peer review, verification, regulatory review and approval).
- Act as an intelligent customer for the safety case by providing technical oversight across licensing, procurement, manufacture, construction, commissioning and operation phases of the station lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including internal teams, external partners and regulators.
- Maximise the benefits of replication from Hinkley Point C to Sizewell C.
Knowledge and Skills
We welcome applicants with safety case experience and a wide range of underlying technical backgrounds. We are committed to developing our people and offer comprehensive training and development programmes.
- Knowledge of safety analyses, design and engineering substantiation, ALARP and/or fault studies
- Ability to identify issues and develop solutions in the context of nuclear plant construction, commissioning and operation
- Ability to interpret complex information, set clear action plans, and lead the strategic planning of the safety case
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
Qualifications & Experience
- Ideally Degree or equivalent in engineering, science, or mathematics
- Experience in the nuclear or other highly regulated industries, managing complex systems’ safety documentation for regulatory compliance and approval
Desirable
- Civil engineering background would be advantageous, ideally with experience of major infrastructure or nuclear construction projects.
Behavioural Competences
Humility
- Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
- Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.
Positivity
- Positively challenge poor quality and performance.
- Identify solutions at the lowest possible level.
- Encourage others to bring new ideas forward.
Respect
- Value the rules and environment in which we operate.
- Give and receive feedback with respect.
- Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.
Solidarity
- One team, working closely together and helping each other.
- Empowered teams always looking forward.
- Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes.
Clarity
- Communicate clearly and consistently.
- Promote collaboration and team alignment.
- Clearer and faster decision making.
- Drive simplification at all levels.
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