Senior Safety Case Engineer

Hear from the Hiring Manager:

The Harwell site, situated just south of Oxford, and the Winfrith site in Dorset are the former research sites supporting nuclear power generation. Both sites are now in the decommissioning phase, with the priority being to remove the legacy waste, demolition and deconstruction of the majority of the buildings and facilities, to ultimately return the sites back to green field status and re-use.

Could you be our next Senior Safety Case Engineer?

You'll deliver nuclear safety cases and associated documentation supporting the fast moving nuclear decommissioning projects across the Harwell and Winfrith sites, as well as general site safety case requirements (e.g. Periodic Safety Review).

Every project at NRS has unique and interesting challenges requiring sound judgement, teamwork and project delivery excellence. Many of our projects are world first decommissioning challenges and attract interest from the wider decommissioning community. Some examples include - the retrieval and processing for long term disposal of historic research waste at Harwell and the decommissioning of the world's first high temperature helium cooled reactor using laser cutting and remote operations at Winfrith.

Key Deliverables:

• Determine strategies for individual Safety Cases acting as Safety Case Project Manager, Author or Verifier where nominated.
• Write and/or verify complex Safety Cases in accordance with Company Standards.
• Maintain the various safety cases, across the Harwell and Winfrith sites and support the modifications process.
• Manage the production of Safety Cases and deliverables being provided by others as input to the Safety Cases.

Qualifications & Experience: Essential:

• A degree or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification in a suitable technical subject, e.g. mechanical engineering / physics.
• Detailed knowledge of modern standards of safety case production and processes within the nuclear industry.
• Detailed knowledge of safety case processes and applications relevant to a nuclear decommissioning site (e.g. fault schedule production, ALARP justification, etc.)
• Experience of safety case project and/or resource management.
• Detailed understanding of engineering safety and the derivation of Safety Functional Requirements.
• Detailed understanding of Site Licence Conditions, and Statutory and Mandatory Requirements.
• Knowledge of safety case management processes e.g. Safety case production, verification, INSA, implementation etc.
• Environmental awareness.

Desirable:

• Membership of an appropriate scientific or engineering institution.
• Understanding of site emergency procedures, operating constraints and limits, rules and site standards and procedures.
• Understanding of Site quality management systems.