Nuclear Waste Services has an exciting new opportunity for a Safety Case Manager to join the team on the LLWR Repository in Cumbria.
As part of this role you will manage and deliver safety assessments and other safety case deliverables to support the GDF Operational Safety Case.
If required, and as agreed with the GDF Pre-Closure Safety Case Lead, the job holder will also provide safety case support to other NWS priorities (e.g. Transport, Site Evaluation, GDF Post Closure safety, Near Surface Disposal and LLWR Repository Site activities).
Roles and Responsibilities
- Providing high quality and timely advice to the GDF programme on Operational Safety issues
- Delivering safety assessments and other safety case documents to support the Operational Safety Case for the GDF
- Technical co-ordination of the production of safety assessments by the supply chain (supported by NWS Project/ Programme Management as required)
- Checking and review of safety assessments and other safety case documents
- Ensuring work is carried out in line with NWS Technical Governance procedures
- Ensuring timely and accurate progress reporting to NWS Project/ Programme Management as required
- Delivery of safety case deliverables to time, cost and quality
The aspects of the GDF programme that the job holder will principally be supporting are:
- GDF Design
Disposability Assessment (support to the issue of Letters of Compliance (LoC) to waste producers)
If required, and as agreed with the GDF Pre-Closure Safety Case Lead, the Job Holder will also provide safety case support to other NWS priorities (e.g. Transport, Site - Evaluation, GDF Post Closure safety, Near Surface Disposal and LLWR Repository Site activities).
Ideally the job holder will have skills and experience in one or more of the following technical skill areas: - Leading Hazard Identification (HAZID) exercises (mostly HAZard and OPerability studies (HAZOPs), but potentially also Structured What If Technique (SWIFT), Hazards of Construction (HAZCON), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA))
- Fault Studies/ Nuclear Safety Assessment
- Internal Hazards assessment
- External Hazards assessment
- Fault schedule development
- Design Basis Accident Analysis
- Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) (fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, etc.)
- Engineering schedule development and reconciliation
- Identification of Safety Functional Requirements
- Identification of Hazard Management Strategies
- Presentation of the safety case using a Claims, Argument, Evidence approach
- Radiological consequence assessment
- Radiation protection, normal operations dose assessment and shielding assessment
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
What is in it for you
- On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave
- Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme)
- We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP
- Learning and development support
- Payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial advice assistance
- Flexible working
- Extended family-friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- We welcome flexible and agile working practices
- Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment
