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Oxfordshire - UK

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

The salary for this role is 73736 (inclusive of a Market Premium Payment (MPP). Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week however we actively support requests for flexible working. 

The role will be based in Culham Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Principal Safety Case Engineer you will play a pivotal role in advising on strategies for the development of safety cases ensuring fit for purpose and timely submission of the relevant safety case documentation against the UKAEAs programme and ensuring regulatory compliance. You will be accountable to the Safety Case Engineering Group Leader for setting the strategic direction of safety cases production. You will be internally acknowledged as the UKAEAs expert on Safety Cases.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish our practices and processes. Remit to identify influence and lead continual improvement to ensure that UKAEA Safety Cases retain an appropriate degree of alignment with licensed sites and reflect best practice across the industry (both fission and fusion).
  • Advise on the identification competency requirements and appointment of UKAEA safety related roles. Scrutiny and expert advice on the development and maintenance of Safety Cases for UKAEA Facilities:
  • Proactively influencing communicating transferring knowledge and coaching the desired culture for UKAEA Safety Cases (working with ATO holders developing engineers throughout the organisation);
  • Champion integration of safety cases with technical change;
  • Externally represent UKAEA in relevant high impact industrial forums (e.g. Safety Directors Forum Safety Case Group) seeking to:
  • Benchmark and extend the Authority to keep pace with emerging industry trends (from fission and high hazard industrial plants);
  • Seek relevant contacts and influence across the nuclear industry on an ongoing basis in order to enhance the effectiveness of UKAEA Safety Case activities and the organisations standing in the wider community

Qualifications :

Technical Requirements:

  • Degree Level Science or Engineering Qualification (or equivalent experience)
  • Extensive demonstrable experience in Safety Case Production
  • Extensive experience in performing Design Basis Analysis (DBA) and Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)
  • HAZAN (Hazard identification and Analysis) FMECA (Failure mode effects and criticality analysis) and Safety Case Writers training
  • Extensive experience of relevant industry regulations working alongside and communicating with specialists within Human Factors and Engineering Substantiation.

Essential Requirements:

  • Able to be both detailoriented & consider bigger picture dependent on the situation
  • High standards with respect to delivering with quality and compliance
  • Clear drive for personal growth organisational learning and continuous improvement
  • Clear and effective communicator at all levels.
  • Champion of ALARP pragmatism challenge / speaking up and appropriate levels of rigour


Additional Information :

A full list of our benefits can be found here ; 

We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from underrepresented groups particularly from women in STEM people from Black British Caribbean and African Pakistani and Bangladeshi British and other ethnic minority backgrounds people with disabilities and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team supported by our Head of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications. 

For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks:;If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application. 


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Fulltime

Employment Type

Full-time

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