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Principal Safety Case Engineer

Location:

Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF Bristol, GB, BS16 1FJ Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ Reading, GB, RG14 2PZ Edinburgh, GB, EH13 9QW

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Principal Safety Case Engineer

Location: Flexible - UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role ID: SF61045

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Safety Case Engineer at one of our UK sites.

The role
As a Principal Safety Case Engineer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will manage the delivery of engineering and technical activities, through the application of process, domain knowledge and experience.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Develop hazard management strategies and Participate in HAZID / HAZOP studies.
• Author radiological safety assessments, including Hazard Management Strategy, Safety Reports (PSRs and PCSRs etc. and equivalents)
• Produce and check calculations, design basis documentation and technical reports.
• Manage the delivery for the work undertaken by the Supply Chain as appropriate and maintain an overview of progress against cost and programme, and the management of project risks, for the work undertaken within their agreed remit.
• Maintain an overview of technical and safety case strategies being delivered, and the key arguments used, to share ‘best practice’ between projects.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week hours per week and offers hybrid working. This role is adaptable and can be delivered from various locations including Bristol, Warrington, Leicester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Newbury.

Essential experience of the Principal Safety Case Engineer

• Chartered Engineer status (or actively working toward Chartered Status).
• Experience in working collaboratively in multi-discipline teams to deliver activities on a range of project types.
• Demonstrable experience in covering a variety of tasks across a range of complexities.
• Good communications skills and the ability to interface with other disciplines.
• Previous experience of coaching or mentoring other Safety Case Engineers

Qualifications for thePrincipal Safety Case Engineer

• Engineering degree (or equivalent qualification) in relevant engineering discipline, with significant demonstrable experience.
  
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish Nuclear employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please emailcareers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 30/07/2025

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