Job Description
As part of our growing nuclear business, we are seeking established Nuclear Safety Assurance individuals with particular experience of submarine power plants, civil nuclear and / or naval nuclear facilities.
This is a fantastic opportunity for self-starters to join a growing company that already has an excellent reputation for delivery. The successful candidate will be integral in helping to shape a growing company. Day to day, you will work with clients providing specialist consultancy services and support business development activities. You will use your engineering knowledge to influence the design, operation and maintenance of complex systems to ensure that technical risks are identified, communicated and managed; and that the safety of those using or relying on the system is not compromised.
Requirements
To be successful in the aforementioned role, you will ideally have:
- Bachelor / Master of Engineering/Science Degree (essential).
- Minimum of 6 years delivery experience in nuclear safety assurance.
- Delivery of Systems Safety activities (inc. operational safety case development, hazard listing and fault schedule development, safety case report authoring, HAZOP, Bow Tie, ALARP optioneering etc.) (essential).
- Delivery of Deterministic Safety Assessments (design basis assessment, beyond design basis assessment, safety functional requirement derivation etc) (essential).
- Demonstrable knowledge of Authorising Conditions and Licensing Conditions for nuclear sites (essential).
- Demonstrable knowledge of PWR3 (desirable).
- Delivery of Probabilistic Safety Assessments (desirable).
- Radiological consequence assessment (desirable).
- Client management / stakeholder engagement skills (desirable).
- Chartered Status with UK Engineering Council (desirable).
- Consultancy experience (desirable).
- Location: Office (Bristol) / Client Sites / Home Working.
Candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.
Required Skills
Lead and deliver high-quality systems assurance (systems safety) activities. This may include:
- Authoring safety management plans.
- Undertaking detailed hazard and risk analyses.
- Deriving, and demonstrating compliance with, safety requirements.
- Developing safety cases and risk management plans.
- Authoring overall safety assurance arguments.
- Leading periodic safety reviews for equipment / facilities.
- Liaising with the Regulators as necessary.
- Define scopes of work and work breakdown structures.
- Develop creative commercial strategies for the successful contracting of new work.
- Strong customer focus, able to easily elicit and understand requirements, build professional relationships, and be trusted to deliver.
- Articulate and effective communicator, able to clearly present information verbally and within written reports.
- Mentor and develop junior engineers.
Benefits
We provide our people with excellent benefits package that comprises of:
- Salary: £60k – £90k per annum, depending on experience
- Annual bonus linked to company and individual performance
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Flexible working arrangements
- Attractive pension scheme - matched pension contributions, up to 8% from day one
- Family Friendly Policies
- Private healthcare
- Targeted professional development
- Life Assurance (4x salary) and Income Protection (75% of salary)
- Paid membership fees to a professional institution
- Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
- EV lease salary sacrifice scheme
To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to: join.us@occam-group.co.uk