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Overview of Responsibilities The safety case engineering team is growing and has one role available for a Safety Case Engineer to join UKAEA on a permanent basis. The team provide safety case services and expertise to existing and future fusion facilities at UKAEA and the wider fusion community, providing assurance to UKAEA that all process hazards are identified to meet organisational and legislative requirements. You will work with projects developing novel and unique technologies and processes, assessing the impact to people from a radiological and industrial hazard’s perspectives. The team provides a service to a wide range of end users, from small lab scale experiments to complete fusion power plants. As the Safety Case Engineer you will be contributing to the successful and safe completion of plant modifications and operations. This involves collecting information from the Responsible Officer for the modification and from the facility manager. It involves reviewing the existing safety case and determining whether the safety limits are being challenged, and therefore requires a willingness to question information and seek out clarifying facts. The role carries opportunities to engage with a wide range of projects and technical areas. This presents you with a breadth of technical and project related opportunities to increase your expertise and enabling for career enrichment and development. You will be responsible for Supporting the Safety Case Team in the production and maintenance of modern safety cases and reports for all facilities within UKAEA and also provide safety analysis support to new facilities at UKAEA and other planned fusion facilities As the Safety Case Engineer you will also: Prepare Safety Cases for UKAEA facilities. Contribute to the preparation of Safety Case documents in support of plant modifications and operations. Produce technical assessments in support of the Safety Case. This would involve research into assessment methods and proposing a methodology Updating and developing the Safety Case section arrangements Responsible for maintaining the Safety Case intranet pages up to date. Attend design reviews associated with their work as the Safety Case section representative. Salary £38,620 (inclusive of MPP) + excellent benefits including outstanding pension Programme MULTIPLE Department Office of Chief Engineers Discipline Engineering Site Location UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire Type of Employment Full-time Qualifications Essential skills, experience and competence required Bachelors or Masters degree entry Working towards incorporated status Knowledge of safety case Safety Case procedures Knowledge of safety case Safety Case production Training and/or experience in undertaking HAZOP studies Desirable skills, experience and competence Nuclear Experience / Knowledge of radiation physics Experience of HAZID, Fault Schedule production, Risk Assessments. Experience in preforming Design Basis Analysis (DBA) and Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Additional Information What we offer Our comprehensive benefits package includes a vibrant culture committed to being fully inclusive, an Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders, Flexible working options including family friendly policies, Emergency paid leave, Generous annual leave allowance (30.5 days) increased with length of service, wide range of career development opportunities, outstanding defined benefit pension scheme; Corporate bonus scheme (up to 7% for Levels 1 - 7, as well as 3rd and 4th year apprentices) and a Relocation allowance (if eligible). We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly from individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, including nationality and citizenship, people with disabilities and women. The Executive team with support from our ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, is actively promoting EDI and taking steps to increase the diversity of our people through reinforcing best practice in recruitment and selection, and revaluating approaches where it is clear we can remove barriers to success. Please note all employees working at the UK Atomic Energy Authority will be required to complete an online Disclosure Certificate application as part of their clearance – The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks will show the details of all current criminal convictions or will confirm that there are no such convictions. Note for applicants who are applying for employment with UKAEA either from outside the United Kingdom or who have spent time outside the United Kingdom in the last five years. Please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants . If the country you are resident in or have resided in is not listed on this website or that the UK Government is not aware of how to obtain a criminal records check from that state then we are unable to process your application.