Title:Nuclear Engineering Consultant / Nuclear Safety Professional
Role - Nuclear Engineering Consultant / Nuclear Safety Professional
Salary: £50,000 - £75,000 depending on experience
Location: Flexible including remote working, Frazer-Nash offices, and client sites.
Closing Date: 13th December however we encourage early applications
Do you want to work for a successful company where you are valued and can make a meaningful impact?At Frazer-Nash we deliver innovative engineering solutions to our clients to make lives safe, secure, sustainable and affordable. It's an exciting time to work in the nuclear industry and Frazer-Nash are involved in many projects across the whole lifecycle of various nuclear facilities to support the journey to NetZero 2050. We're seeking someone with significant experience of the nuclear industry, or a similar high hazard and highly regulated industry, to join our diverse growing team and be an essential part of our journey.
Your role will encompass providing technical expertise for the design, construction, operation, maintenance, defueling, and/or decommissioning of nuclear facilities. You'll have a proven history of using your skills, experience, and knowledge of nuclear and/or other high hazard industries to assess and justify safety, provide engineering solutions, and guide our clients in their choice processes. You'll undertake work for clients on complex and significant nuclear safety related problems and support other staff in planning and performing such work. You'll deliver this through working with clients as required including remotely, in our office environments or at client sites. Through this, your contributions will be integral to our continued growth.
The types of projects you could be involved with include:- Authoring or verifying nuclear safety case reports from simple through to complex.
- Establishing the strategy to justify that a nuclear licensee is safe to operate and overseeing the production of the substantiation and safety case submission.
- Being responsible for the design, manufacture, delivery, installation and commissioning of plant items and systems and solving issues as they arise.
- Walking down equipment at a nuclear site to ensure it remains qualified to meet functional safety requirements or identify means for its remediation.
- Performing qualitative or quantitative assessments (e.g. hazards, process safety, reactor physics, structural integrity etc.) to determine the risks presented to critical plant and identify corrective actions.
- Specifying plans to retire and remove plant, systems and structures to support safe, secure, cost-effective defueling, decommissioning, and deconstruction.
Key responsibilities for this role will include:- Develop and deliver strategies to overcome a range of complex nuclear challenges.
- Produce high-quality technical documentation to meet the demands of our clients.
- Apply your knowledge and experience across a range of nuclear technologies.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship and training to colleagues and clients.
- Manage projects, ensuring they meet time, cost and quality expectations.
- Seek out new business opportunities and generate proposals and bids.
- Establish and develop enduring client relationships.
Essential requirements:- Technical expertise within a particular field (e.g. mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering, C&I, numerical analysis, design, hazards, radiological protection and consequences, equipment qualification, severe accidents) and the ability to adapt and apply that to a range of requirements within the nuclear sector.
- A proven history of effective technical delivery in a high hazard or highly regulated industry.
- Comprehensive problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
- Confident, clear and organised written and oral communicator.
- Willingness to travel to client sites as required.
Desirable requirements:- Experience of nuclear safety case processes and submission production.
- Technical project management experience in a high hazard or highly regulated industry.
- Experience of project implementation, particularly in a highly regulated environment.
- Networking capability to develop new business and maintain client relationships.
- A degree (or equivalent) in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
- Chartered (or working towards) with a professional institution.
Working at Frazer-NashOne of our core values at Frazer-Nash is that we value our people. We enable 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.
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.
