Senior Safety Case Engineer (Nuclear)

Job Title: Senior Safety Case Engineer

Role Purpose

The Senior Safety Case Engineer will provide and maintain nuclear safety justification for ongoing operations and activities at Rosyth, ensuring full compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. This role includes developing and maintaining Safety Management Arrangements, performing safety assessments, producing safety case documentation, and managing the safety case lifecycle for projects at Rosyth. The post-holder will provide nuclear safety support across design, operation, and maintenance functions and interface with regulators, safety committees, and key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

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  Support the Nuclear Safety Manager and work collaboratively with SDP project teams, health physics, design, operations, and maintenance teams to plan and prepare nuclear safety justifications.
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  Identify and categorise work affecting nuclear safety in line with internal safety management arrangements.
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  Develop, plan, and manage safety justification strategies, including key hold points and permissioning plans.
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  Plan, conduct, and report hazard identification assessments (HAZOPS, FMEA, SWIFT, Walkdowns, Desktop Studies).
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  Develop, categorise, classify, and specify Safety Functional Requirements (SFRs) derived from safety assessments.
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  Support substantiation of Structures, Systems, and Components (SSCs) fulfilling SFRs to support safety claims.
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  Provide radiological assessments (unmitigated consequences andamp; input to operational dose assessments) to support safety documentation.
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  Conduct event and fault tree analysis to support probabilistic safety assessments (PSA).
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  Support ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) and BPM substantiations for safety cases.
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  Formulate and document Operating Rules, Limits, Conditions, maintenance (EIMT), and training requirements arising from safety assessments.
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  Review and verify safety documentation and assessments, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
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  Provide oversight of external organisations preparing safety case documentation on behalf of the Licensee.
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  Monitor and report progress of safety case documentation through approval processes.
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  Implement RRDL Design andamp; Safety Principles and processes into Rosyth projects.
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  Ensure advice from IPR, NSC, and regulatory authorities is incorporated into safety justifications and management arrangements.
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  Maintain safety justification for nuclear facilities and communicate requirements to operators and maintainers, auditing compliance.
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  Contribute to wider safety case activities, including optioneering, proposals, implementation plans, and committee presentations.

Key Competencies

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  Technical Facilitation
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  Judgement and Decisiveness
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  Customer Focus
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  Problem Solving
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  Planning andamp; Organising
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  Results-Focused
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  Continuous Improvement
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  Managing and Adapting to Change
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  Team Working andamp; Collaboration
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  Developing Self and Others
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  Intelligent Customer Awareness

Qualifications andamp; Experience

Essential:

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  Degree in a relevant Engineering or Science discipline
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  NIC or equivalent certif