Position: Senior Safety Case Engineer (Hybrid)
Locations: Preston, Newbury, Leicester, Bristol and Warrington
Function: Business Winning/Eventual Business Stream
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.
The Role:
The Senior Safety Case Engineer (Nuclear) is responsible for developing, maintaining and managing nuclear safety case documentation to ensure that nuclear facilities, projects and ongoing operations remain safe, legally compliant and aligned with regulatory expectations.
The role provides expert nuclear safety support across design, operations, and maintenance functions, ensuring that all safety justifications, analyses, and management arrangements robustly demonstrate safe operation and meet statutory and regulatory requirements.
Job Responsibilities:
The primary area of accountability will be to lead (from an Engineering Manager perspective) the development of innovative technical solutions and submission of winning bids. This will require strong team and internal stakeholder management skills – as well as often engaging external supply chains/partners. The role is accountable for management, control and delivery of engineering activities within Bids.
The role must ensure application of the highest standards for health, safety, and environment (including ethics and behaviours) and be fully aware of all authorised documentation, Good Practice Guides and ISO standards.
- Support the business winning process through input into and review of tender requirements, including estimates and governance.
- Develops and owns delivery of the safety case scope and schedule required to meet customer requirements.
- Promote effective co-operation across safety case and other functional teams.
- Develop programme, portfolio or project resource plans to deliver the identified scope by engaging across the company.
- Develops and owns the validation & verification plans for the release of engineering product within the project/programme.
- Ensure individual project/ programmes comply with safety case arrangements.
- Ensure that procedures, codes and standards are correctly identified and applied to engineering and technical activities.
- Ensure application of highest standards for health and safety in the immediate area of responsibility and ensure all team members across engineering co-operate with respect to company standards about matters on health, safety and environment, ethics and behaviours.
- Maintain knowledge of Industry best practice, promote a culture of engineering best practice, provide leadership and assist in driving cultural development and change.
- Contribute to learning from experience (LfE). requirement, during and post project.
- Managing delivery for the work allocated.
- Producing calculations, analyses, design basis documentation and technical reports.
- Ensuring adequate communication with the relevant Engineers.
- Participating in Hazard Identification studies.
- Support production of the safety submission.
- Identifying project risks by highlighting safety items to the Technical Lead.
- Producing technical Scopes of Work.
- Feeding back lessons learnt for use on future stages of the project.
Experience/Qualifications/Skills:
The following requirements are presented as guidance; they are desirable qualities however candidates are not expected to be competent in all skills. The requirements are presented to both enable competence discussions and to support the setting of objectives to allow individuals to determine their career path.
Entry Level Requirements:
- Bachelor Honours Degree (minimum) in relevant Science or Engineering related discipline;
- Demonstrable knowledge and industry experience of a range of nuclear facilities;
- Demonstrable experience of contributing to Safety Case documentation, for example: Hazard Management Strategy, Radiological Safety Assessments, Attendance at, and production of HAZOP Reports and Safety Reports (PSRs, PCSRs etc.)
- Demonstrable understanding of the ALARP Principle.
- Demonstrable knowledge of ONR Safety Assessment Principles.
Fully Competent Requirements:
- Demonstrable performance at entry level with further evidence to substantiate the above experience.
- Demonstrable experience in supporting the development of junior staff.
- Demonstrable experience in verification of peers’ reports.
- Further participation in HAZOPs, for example as Secretary.
- Demonstrable awareness of other safety case-related disciplines and associated legislation.
- Awareness of engineering disciplines and their importance to safety case production.
Due to current workloads, Simpson Booth regrets to inform that in the instance you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of your application, you are to consider your application unsuccessful at this time.
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