Roles and Responsibilities
The main purposes of this job are to:
- Deliver safety assessments and other safety case deliverables to support the Operational Safety Case
- Provide high quality safety advice to engineers, designers and other stakeholders to support the Operational Safety Case
- Define and specify the work required to support the Operational Safety Case
- Progress safety case deliverables through the relevant Technical Governance process steps
- Effectively communicate the key findings, outputs and conclusions of the Operational Safety Case to a wide range of stakeholders (internal/ external, technical/ non-technical)
- Ensure that safety assessments and other elements of the Operational Safety Case are delivered to time, cost and quality
- Contribute to development of the safety case capability, methodology and guidance
- Develop their own skills/ experience via Continued Professional Development (CPD) (either as part of a professional institute or independently)
- Contribute to the training and development of team members, including maintenance of SQEP capability, resilience and succession planning
- Interface effectively with internal teams (e.g. engineering, waste management, requirements, research, post-closure, transport).
- Deal responsively, but also proactively, with a range of internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Nuclear Safety and Environmental Committee (NSEC), Independent Oversight/ Independent Assessment (IO/IA))
- Contribute to regulatory interactions
- Represent the Programme at national and international fora and events
- Work collaboratively with other staff and suppliers to ensure good value for money
Experience Required
Essential
- Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex safety arguments to a wide range of stakeholders (specialist and non-specialist)
- Safety case production experience, preferably in UK civil nuclear
- Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) subject (combined degrees which incorporate a strong STEM element will also be considered)
Desirable
- Experience of radiological safety assessment of UK nuclear waste handling, packaging and storage
- Familiarity with higher activity radioactive wastes, handling/ packaging processes and the related safety issues
- Ability to present safety case documents to stakeholders (e.g. safety committees, regulators)
- Experience of Requirements Management, Systems Engineering and the Claims, Arguments, Evidence approach to safety case presentation
- Experienced in the mentoring, training and development of more junior staff
- Knowledge of the UK nuclear regulatory context
- Membership of a relevant professional institution, either with a charter or working towards
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