Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for an experienced Senior Safety Case Engineer to join our team flexible working across the NWS estate.
The main purposes of this job are to:
- Manage and deliver safety assessments and other safety case deliverables to support the GDF Operational Safety Case
- Provide high quality safety advice to engineers, designers and other stakeholders to support the GDF Operational Safety Case
- Define and specify the work required to support the GDF 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 GDF Operational Safety Case are delivered to time, cost and quality
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, review and approval of safety assessments and other safety case documents
- Ensuring work is carried out in line with NWS Technical Governance procedures
- Specifying safety case work to ensure that safety case work is adequately scoped to ensure effective delivery
- Acceptance of externally produced safety case deliverables, acting in the capacity of Intelligent Customer (IC)
- Ensuring timely and accurate progress reporting to NWS Project/ Programme Management as required
- Delivery of safety case deliverables to time, cost and quality
Experience Required
- 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
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
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