Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for an experienced Safety Case Lead to join the External Hazards and REPPIR Team in Harwell.
The purpose of the Safety Case Lead, Specialist Assessment Team is to lead a Specialist Assessment Team in one of the following areas:
- Transport and underground hazards
- Near Surface Disposal
- Criticality Dose and Shielding
- Human Factors
- External Hazards and REPPIR
- Radiological Protection Design
The Safety Case Lead is accountable for developing a specialist assessment team and maintaining competence, ensuring that an effective specialist assessment service is provided across Nuclear Waste Service in one of the areas identified above.
The individual will be responsible for ensuring that processes and methods, software and quality data are in place to provide the service, feeding into research programmes as required. They will ensure the SQEPness / competency of staff in their team and that work is properly scoped and planned to meet business demand. They will undertake audit and assurance activities to ensure that a quality product in provided. The individual will provide robust input into operations projects and programmes, driving project strategy and ensuring the specialist area is appropriately considered at the right time.
The individual will provide robust technical checking of the output of the team and ensure that other checkers / reviewers comments are incorporated. The individual will present the output of the team to the relevant safety committee (eg NSEC / MEHSC) and address peer review and regulator comments
The individual will ensure that operational and engineering requirements are identified and that these requirements are robustly taken forward. For GDF or Near Surface Disposal, this will be via Requirements Management and System Engineering. In order to support operations, the individual will liaise with Safety Case Owners via the Safety Case Manager, to ensure that safety case changes are delivered to time, cost and quality.
- Producing and checking Specialist Safety Assessments
- Producing and checking Strategy papers and Safety Reports
- Identifying required deliverables across Operations, Projects and Programmes
- Acting as a Subject Matter Expert, delivering training and evaluating the competence of individuals in nuclear safety roles
- Working with Project Managers to understand the scope of all work and manage resources to deliver requirements to time, cost and quality
- Acting as an LLWR Safety Case Manager. Advising Safety Case Owners and program managers, and determining safety case strategy
- Working with supply chain partners to provide quality work packages to time and cost.
- Participation in Best Available Technique (BAT) and design optimisation studies
- Inputting to and reviewing work packaging, tender selection, and tender submissions for procurement of nuclear safety case services.
- Leading and/or supporting regulator and stakeholder group interactions in connection with the role, including preparing and delivering technical presentations to stakeholder groups.
- Ensuring that specialist team members are aware of, and understand relevant legislation, ONR and LLWR guidance, policies and procedures
- Providing definitive and reliable nuclear safety case advice to colleagues such as Operational Staff, Engineering, Program Managers, ESC staff, Project Staff and Safety Case Owners
- Support the development and delivery of training and mentoring for trainee Safety Assessors
- Support the presentation of safety case documents to MEHSC NSEC and NSC committees and ensure alignment implementation arrangements
- Provide effective, proactive and action orientated safety case support to the defined specialist area of NWS
- Carry out audit, review and improvement / modernisation tasks
- Chair hazard and operability study (HAZOP) meetings.
- Write safety assessments or other Nuclear Safety Case documentation such as Clearance Certificates, Engineering Schedules, Summary Reports.
- QA check safety case documentation for logic and methodology or data and transcription errors
- Line Management for up to 6 team members
- Identify Nuclear Safety Case LFE and implement Improvements
- Provide Sharepoint and data coordination
- Attendance and contribution to industry forums
Essential
- Science, Mathematics or Engineering degree
- Significant experience of safety assessment in the specialist area, including application of safety case techniques and derivation of safety measures
- Experience of leading HAZOPs and/or HAZCON studies
- Experience of delivering safety case training
- Experience of safety case collaboration with engineering and operations
- Broad understanding of Nuclear Industry
Desirable
- Presenting safety case documents to a safety committee
- Engaging with, and working with supply chain
- Change management process experience.
- Understanding of waste management and consignment processes
- Experience of NWS safety case process and methodology
- Experience of working within a Nuclear Licenced and Environmental Permitted Site Licensee
- Wider experience of safety cases within the nuclear industry
- Experience of Requirements Management and System Engineering
- 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
