Position: Nuclear Principal Safety Case
About the Company: We are supporting a key client operating within the UK Nuclear sector, who is looking to engage experienced professionals for a long-term contract opportunity.
About the Role: This role requires individuals with a strong background in nuclear environments and active SC clearance.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver high‑quality nuclear safety case documentation to agreed standards of time, cost, and quality
- Produce clear, structured safety case reports that demonstrate confidence in assessment methodology
- Lead or contribute to optioneering studies, including scoring and weighting approaches
- Plan and support Hazard Identification (HAZID) activities, including:
- Chairing or secretariat support for HAZOPs
- Apply Hazard Analysis (HAZAN) techniques such as:
- Design Basis Analysis (DBA)
- Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA)
- Safety measure derivation
- Risk calculation and interpretation
Develop:
- Hazard schedules and fault schedules
- Engineering and procedure schedules
- Perform shortfall sentencing, including ALARP optioneering studies
- Develop Claims, Arguments and Evidence (CAE)
- Engage directly with clients, providing progress updates, highlighting risks/opportunities, and proposing solutions
Qualifications:
- Experience authoring safety case assessments and documentation to client standards and procedures
- Providing technical safety input into engineering or design activities
- Supporting document checking and verification
- Awareness of core safety case assessment techniques, including:
HAZID / HAZAN
Dose assessment
Fault sequence frequency and risk derivation
Optioneering and shortfall sentencing
Required Skills:
- Clear written communication skills, able to describe complex systems in an understandable way
- Ability to review large volumes of information and extract relevant safety content
- Strong personal work ethic, accountability, and pride in quality delivery
- Comfortable working with multidisciplinary teams and client representatives
- Willingness to travel to UK client sites where required
- Active UK Security Check (SC) clearance without any restrictions.
Preferred Skills:
- Direct experience delivering full safety cases or key constituent reports
- Experience leading safety case tasks or small teams
- Mentoring or supporting junior team members
- Opportunity to work on high-profile nuclear programmes
- Supporting project planning, cost estimating, and scheduling
- Reporting programme progress to project managers or clients
- Managing change and scope evolution
- Confidence chairing or leading meetings with senior client stakeholders
Pay range: Competitive rates within a high-demand skill area.
Equal Opportunity Statement: Due to the nature of the work, candidates must:
- Be eligible to work in the UK
- Hold active SC clearance at the time of application
Are you interested? If you would like a confidential conversation about the role and what we’re building at U‑CD, we’d love to hear from you. Please click apply or get in touch with me directly: Frankie.Brown@u-cd.co.uk
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