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We are supporting leading specialist in nuclear services and engineering delivery, as they seek a Senior Safety Engineer to support projects within their nuclear safety team. This is a contract role for an initial 6 12-month term and they are ideally seeking individuals with experience contributing to nuclear safety case documentation within highly regulated environments. The role is supporting nuclear programmes associated with legacy fuel cycle and decommissioning work linked to the Sellafield site.
Rate: £63 £76/hour (Umbrella inside IR35)
Location: Warrington or Bristol- 3 days onsite / 2 days WFH
Duration: 6-12 months initially
Requirements: sole UK national living and working in the UK for the past 5 years
Key Responsibilities
- As part of a team, providing the nuclear safety input to design projects, ensuring that nuclear safety requirements are considered
- 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
- Providing the safety case support to bids
- Building customer relationships
- Representing the discipline to internal and external customers
- Maintaining awareness of wider industry
- Supervising the work of junior staff within the same discipline.
- Ensuring that processes and procedures are correctly followed.
Qualifications and Experience
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;
- Minimum of 5 years demonstrable knowledge and industry experience of a range of nuclear facilities;
- Demonstrable experience of contributing to Safety Case documentation, for example:
- o Hazard Management Strategy
- o Radiological Safety Assessments
- o Attendance at, and production of HAZOP Reports
- o 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
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