Senior and Principal Nuclear Safety Assurance:
You could be part of building something from the start!
U-CD have been growing for over 6 years, with fantastic team members across Safety and Human factors. This is not a pre‑packaged role in a mature structure. This is an opportunity to shape the culture, standards, and reputation of a growing nuclear safety team from day one!
At U‑CD, people aren’t interchangeable. The experience, judgement, and perspective you bring matter to the continuing growth of our Safety team. If you’re a Senior or Principal nuclear safety case professional looking for more influence, more support, and a consultancy that continues to invest in everyone, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role:
We are seeking Senior and Principal Nuclear Safety Case Consultants to join U‑CD’s newly established nuclear safety division, supporting emerging opportunities, growth, and delivery across the UK nuclear sector.
You will deliver nuclear safety case and assurance work across a range of projects, working closely with our Directors and Head of Nuclear Safety. You’ll be trusted with real responsibility, supported in your development, and encouraged to shape how we deliver consultancy, not just following a template.
This role offers:
- Tailored technical and consultancy mentoring
- A clear, personalised development pathway
- Progressive responsibility toward becoming a key safety case lead for assigned clients
- The opportunity to help build and mentor a future safety case team as the division grows
Key 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
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in a science or engineering discipline, or vocational qualification (HND or equivalent), and/or significant relevant experience
- Minimum 3 years’ experience supporting or delivering nuclear safety cases
- 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:
- 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
- Minimum of a Security Check (SC) clearance without any restrictions. UCD will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently hold it.
Preferred (Not Essential):
- Direct experience delivering full safety cases or key constituent reports
- Experience leading safety case tasks or small teams
- Mentoring or supporting junior team members
- 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
Why Join U‑CD?
- Real influence in shaping a growing nuclear safety capability
- Visible leadership support, with direct access to decision‑makers
- High technical standards without ego
- Personalised career development, not generic frameworks
- Flexible working that supports sustainable performance
- The opportunity to help build an inclusive, high‑quality safety case community
Salary & Benefits
We offer a competitive package reflecting experience and responsibility:
- Senior Safety Case Consultant: up to £70,000 per annum + performance‑related bonus (DOE)
- Principal Safety Case Consultant: up to £85,000 per annum + performance‑related bonus (DOE)
Plus:
- 25 days annual leave
- Bank holidays taken flexibly
- Flexible and part‑time working considered – please let us know on application
- Funded professional and career development
- A genuinely supportive and people‑focused culture
Are you interested?
Whether you’re ready to apply now or would simply 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