Location: Chorley Hybrid working - 2/3 days per week in office
Contract: 12 months
Rate: £75 Per Hour
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Principal Safety Case Engineer to join a growing engineering team working on an exciting Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programme.
This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in the development of a next-generation nuclear technology, providing senior-level safety case expertise across the design and development lifecycle.
You will work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop robust safety arguments, ensure regulatory requirements are met, and provide technical leadership across safety case activities.
The Role
As a Principal Safety Case Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise across the safety case lifecycle, supporting the development and substantiation of a complex nuclear technology.
Your responsibilities will include:
·Leading the development and delivery of safety case strategies and documentation.
·Providing authoritative safety case input into the design and engineering process.
·Developing and maintaining safety arguments, claims and supporting evidence.
·Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to identify and manage nuclear safety requirements.
·Supporting hazard identification, assessment and analysis activities.
·Reviewing engineering designs to ensure appropriate safety requirements are identified and addressed.
·Providing technical input into deterministic and probabilistic safety assessments.
·Supporting the development and maintenance of safety requirements and their traceability.
·Identifying safety case gaps, risks and dependencies and driving these through to resolution.
·Providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to less experienced safety case engineers.
·Supporting engagement with internal and external stakeholders on safety case matters.
·Contributing to safety case governance, assurance and continuous improvement activities.
·Supporting the preparation of documentation and evidence required throughout the project lifecycle.
Skills and Experience
·Significant hands on experience working within nuclear safety case engineering.
·Experience developing safety cases for nuclear facilities, systems or safety-critical technology.
·Strong understanding of UK nuclear safety principles, legislation and regulatory expectations.
·Experience with hazard identification and assessment, safety requirements and safety arguments.
·Knowledge of deterministic safety assessment and/or probabilistic safety assessment.
·Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
·Strong understanding of the relationship between safety case, engineering design and configuration management.
·Experience producing and reviewing safety case documentation and technical reports.
·Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
·The ability to challenge technical decisions constructively and provide credible engineering advice.
·Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring to other engineers.
Please note that this role will require security clearance!
If you are qualfied and interested, please apply or email (url removed)
Salary description
£75.00 - £75.00 per hour