Job Description

About NESC

NESC is a professional engineering support provider, specialising in high hazard and high consequence engineering and people assurance. Principally focussed towards the defence and civil nuclear industries, NESC is a multidisciplinary safety and engineering consultancy, which thrives on tackling engineering challenges head on, deriving logical and cost-effective solutions to complex problems.

There is an opportunity for a Senior Nuclear Safety Engineer to join our talented and growing safety department; to take the lead in the delivery of our safety case projects related to new build infrastructure and the development of existing safety cases across the UK.

You will be based in our Plymouth Office at Plymouth Science Park, working as part of a highly professional and dynamic team.

What you will be responsible for

As a Senior Safety Engineer at NESC, responsibilities will include:

Supporting our Principal Safety Engineers in the delivery of safety case projects;

Mentoring and nurturing our Safety Engineers;

Continuing to develop excellent relationships with our existing clients.

At NESC we recognise that everyone has different preferences and strengths. We focus on recruiting the very best people and provide them with opportunities to tailor the role to suit their experience and skills. The above responsibilities are therefore indicative.

Key Skills, Experience & Attitudes

Flexible, adaptable, innovative and proactive approach to working and finding solutions;

Ability to work closely with clients to solve problems;

Desire to support growth of our nuclear safety capability;

A developed understanding and experience in a number of the following areas of safety case development:

o Hazard Identification and Fault Sequence Development;

o Deterministic Safety Assessment / Probabilistic Safety Assessment / Severe Accident Analysis;

o Radiological Consequence Assessment;

o Safety Case Management;

o ALARP Justification;

o Safety Report Writing (e.g. PSR, PCSR, POSR, PCmSR).

Experience in working in multi-disciplinary teams and ability to communicate across different stakeholder groups and at a variety of professional levels;

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain Security Clearance;

Desirable Skills and Experience

Membership of a Professional Body.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Employee mentoring programme Free parking Gym membership Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Private medical insurance
Education:

Bachelor's (preferred)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person