Nuclear Safety/Systems Engineer

  • Department: PWR & Systems Engineering
  • Location: Bristol

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Description

Job Title: Nuclear Safety/Systems Engineer

Salary range: £45,000 to £60,000 per annum

Location: Bristol, Gloucester, Harwell or Burton offices (flexible hybrid working, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home)

Closing date for this role is 30th June but we encourage early applications

We are seeking junior nuclear engineers, mechanical engineers, safety engineers, systems engineers and physicists with some prior experience in the nuclear sector or similar industries.

The Role

In this role you will:

  • Deliver high quality technical work (in the areas listed under the requirements section) to help our nuclear clients to deliver their projects and resolve the interesting and complex technical issues that they encounter.
  • Have opportunities to work across the entire nuclear sector, from developing designs and safety cases for new nuclear technologies (including HPC, SZC, SMR, AMR and fusion), to supporting and improving safe operation of current nuclear power stations, to solving problems to enable safe and efficient defueling and decommissioning of nuclear sites.
  • Work on projects covering a range of technical disciplines and clients.
  • Help us to grow new business opportunities within the sector.
  • Manage delivery of our projects.
  • Mentor and coach others.

Working life at Frazer-Nash

One of our core values at Frazer-Nash is that we value our people. We help them to find work that they enjoy and that allows then to continuously grow and develop, whilst maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We support our people in achieving chartership with relevant engineering and scientific institutions. Where possible we encourage cross-sector and cross-discipline working to allow skill sets to be transferred and to encourage sharing of best practice from different sectors. We support our people to develop consultancy skills including business development and project management. As our people progress we provide opportunities for increased responsibility and support our people to transition into the career paths that they want to take. Be that becoming an expert in a technical discipline, transitioning into people management or focussing on business development of a specific sector.

Requirements

Candidates will need to have a degree in Engineering, Physics or Maths (or equivalent). We are interested in hearing from candidates with experience and knowledge in nuclear and similar industries in any one or more of the following:

  • Producing and/or reviewing safety cases including (but not limited to) top level safety reports and engineering changes.
  • Developing Generic Design Assessment applications
  • ALARP assessments and analyses of safety risks.
  • Assessing and justifying non-conformances with equipment / components.
  • Technical expertise in fault studies, internal/external hazards, probabilistic safety assessment, radiological consequences or severe accidents for nuclear technologies.
  • Problem solving of technical issues arising in design and delivery of systems and components.

Additionally it would be beneficial if you have experience in any of the following:

  • Project management
  • Mentoring / coaching of other team members
  • Writing compelling bids / offers for new work (or experience of reviewing bids/offers) 

Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-­Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

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