Principal Safety Case Engineer 

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Reference: 868165

Location: Warrington,Bristol,  Newbury,  Leicester

Type: Perm, Full-time, Hybrid

Sector: Energy

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Description

Our Client ensures security of energy supply and helps protect populations across the world by providing specialist project development, engineering and safety solutions across the nuclear lifecycle.

  • Have you been following the recent exciting UK nuclear sector funding and project news?

  • Always been interested in this fascinating industry, but never been sure how to transition into it?

  • Are you experienced in developing safety cases for high-hazard projects in the oil and gas, petrochemical, or pharmaceutical arenas?

We here at Simpson Booth can help. Our client is keen to review applications from experienced high-hazard safety case personnel eager to transition into the nuclear sector for their mission-critical, high-stakes projects.

The Role

As a Principal Safety Case Engineer, your day-to-day responsibilities will cover all aspects of the business, from business winning to subsequent project delivery. You will be a key member with responsibility for developing the team, both internally and within the customer organisations. You will use your expertise and knowledge to help develop the next generation of Safety Consultants through the Client’s business portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery:

  • Providing the nuclear Safety input to design projects, ensuring that nuclear safety requirements are incorporated;

  • Preparing and agreeing the Safety Case Strategy;

  • Managing delivery for the work undertaken with their agreed remit against cost and programme to the satisfaction of the Key Stakeholders i.e. Safety Case Managers, Safety Case Owners Client Team, Safety Committee, INSA/Peer Review, NSC, Regulators;

  • Producing verifying and approving calculations, analyses, design basis documentation and technical reports;

  • Acting as the Point of Contact for the Key Stakeholders,  ensuring adequate communication between the  Engineering Delivery Team, Construction Experts, Operators,  Safety Assessors, Site Safety Case Managers and other  Stakeholders;

  • Leading and participating in Hazard Identification studies;

  • Co-ordinating production of the safety submission including  all specialist safety input;

  • Supporting Submissions through the various review and  approval stages;

  • Review and approval of design changes, concessions and  technical queries;

  • Managing project risks by closing out safety items  on  the Technical Issues and Risk Register Database;

  • Raising quality plans for single discipline work packages;

  • Producing, verifying, and approving technical Scopes  of Work, assessing tender returns, then verifying/assessing  and/or approving the outputs to ensure  that the  requirements of the design sub-contract are met;

  • Feeding back lessons learnt for use on future stages of the  current project and other projects.

Bid Support

  • Providing safety case input to bids;

  • Peer reviewing bids and designs;

  • Producing estimates for bids;

  • Independent assessment of the technical basis of claims and  disputes.

Growth:

  • Building and maintaining customer relationships;

  • Growing the business through the identification and  development of opportunities;

  • Representing the discipline to customers, regulatory and  external bodies.

Functional:

  • Maintaining awareness of wider industry process and  project developments;

  • Reviewing industry best practice for implementation;

  • Undertaking any special duties as may be specified from time to time by the Functional Leader;

  • Ensuring that deployed resources are suitably qualified  and experienced personnel;

  • Directing and supervising the work of technical specialists within the same discipline.

Processes:

  • Input to development of processes and procedures that  are  pragmatic, proportionate, scalable and widely applicable;

  • Ensuring that processes and procedures are correctly  applied to technical activities.

Key Requirements

Skills & Experience 

  • Bachelor Honours Degree (minimum) in relevant Science  or Engineering related discipline;

  • Demonstrable knowledge with cross-industry experience  and in-depth knowledge of a wide range of nuclear facilities,  their operations and site license compliance arrangements;

  • Demonstrable experience in managing teams to deliver  large, technically complex, fit for purpose safety cases;

  • Demonstrable experience in the mentoring, training, and development of more junior staff;

  • Demonstrable problem solving, leadership and  communication skills;

  • Demonstrable experience of directing and producing  Safety Case documentation e.g.;

    o   Hazard Management Strategy;

    o   Radiological Safety Assessments;

    o   DBAA;

    o   Consequence Assessment;

    o   Derivation of SFRs;

    o   HAZOP Chair and production of HAZOP Reports;

    o   Safety Reports (PSRs, PCSRs etc. and equivalents);

    o   ALARP Justification;

  • INSA / Peer Review.

  • Demonstrable knowledge of specialist safety case  disciplines, such as criticality assessment, shielding and  dose assessment, environmental assessment, human factors;

  • Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of ONR  Safety Assessment Principles and relevant legislation such  as, the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public  Information) Regulations 2019, the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016, Environmental Authorisations (Scotland)  Regulations 2018, and IAEA SSR-6  and associated transport  legislation.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain SC Level security clearance for this role.

Due to current workloads, Simpson Booth regrets to inform that in the instance you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of your application, you are to consider your application unsuccessful at this time.

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