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
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.
Identify and categorise work affecting nuclear safety in line with internal safety management arrangements.
Develop, plan, and manage safety justification strategies, including key hold points and permissioning plans.
Plan, conduct, and report hazard identification assessments (HAZOPS, FMEA, SWIFT, Walkdowns, Desktop Studies).
Develop, categorise, classify, and specify Safety Functional Requirements (SFRs) derived from safety assessments.
Support substantiation of Structures, Systems, and Components (SSCs) fulfilling SFRs to support safety claims.
Provide radiological assessments (unmitigated consequences & input to operational dose assessments) to support safety documentation.
Conduct event and fault tree analysis to support probabilistic safety assessments (PSA).
Support ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) and BPM substantiations for safety cases.
Formulate and document Operating Rules, Limits, Conditions, maintenance (EIMT), and training requirements arising from safety assessments.
Review and verify safety documentation and assessments, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Provide oversight of external organisations preparing safety case documentation on behalf of the Licensee.
Monitor and report progress of safety case documentation through approval processes.
Implement RRDL Design & Safety Principles and processes into Rosyth projects.
Ensure advice from IPR, NSC, and regulatory authorities is incorporated into safety justifications and management arrangements.
Maintain safety justification for nuclear facilities and communicate requirements to operators and maintainers, auditing compliance.
Contribute to wider safety case activities, including optioneering, proposals, implementation plans, and committee presentations.
Key Competencies
Technical Facilitation
Judgement and Decisiveness
Customer Focus
Problem Solving
Planning & Organising
Results-Focused
Continuous Improvement
Managing and Adapting to Change
Team Working & Collaboration
Developing Self and Others
Intelligent Customer Awareness
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
Degree in a relevant Engineering or Science discipline
NIC or equivalent certification
Proven experience in the production and management of safety cases, ideally within nuclear decommissioning
Strong understanding of risk assessment, criteria setting, reliability assessment, fault tree analysis, HAZOP studies, FMEA, human reliability analysis, and radiological consequence assessment
Knowledge of QA processes
Experience working in a Licensee organisation
Experience applying proportionate design mindset to meet safety requirements
Desirable:
Experience acting as an Intelligent Customer
Knowledge of conventional Health, Safety & Environment regulations and standards
Security Requirements
ITAR, NNPPI, and SC clearance level required
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