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Safety Requirements Lead
Aztec West with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week.
Are you a qualified Engineer? Do you have experience in: Safety Requirements? Are you looking to develop your expertise in the exciting and challenging environment of new nuclear build?
If so, join us as a Safety Requirements Lead and you’ll join one of the most exciting and ambitious projects within EDF, as we continue to lead the rebirth of nuclear in the UK.
The Opportunity...
EDF EPR Engineering UK (EPR-E) established in 2023, is responsible for delivering the design for a number of NI buildings, systems and equipment contracts for the Hinkley Point C EPR Project through an integrated team, support to HPC construction and commissioning activities, and preparing design replication feasibility and engineering activities for the Sizewell C Project. Therefore, a Technical Directorate is being created, responsible for the engineering disciplines and technical expertise required to deliver the different engineering projects through integrated teams in EPR-E.
For the SZC Project, work on the replication strategy and some early design studies are already underway and being delivered and managed from both France and UK.
For the SZC project, we are currently looking to recruit for the role of Safety Requirements Lead.
Pay, benefits and culture…
Alongside a salary from £60,000 to £70,000, we offer a competitive benefits package, including a company pension scheme, a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle, and the opportunity to earn bonus.
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What you’ll be doing…
The key duties and responsibilities of the Safety Requirements Lead are as follows:
- The oversight and coordination of technical activities for the Safety Requirements, Fault Studies, PSA and Generic Design Assessment Findings (GDAF) technical topics,
- Coordination of the interactions with the technical leads within the entities supporting the Project, ensuring activities are kicked off in a timely manner and deliverable produced right first time,
- Support the definition of the annual Task Order for relevant technical topics,
- Provide support to production of other studies produced by the technical departments,
- Ensure consistency in activities across the different technical topics across the Safety scope and wider SZC Project (as needed),
- Coordination of the annual Holistic Safety Review,
- Analyse and integrate possible changes impacting the design, and ensure relevant actions are taken to ensure progress with the resolution of open points and design changes,
- Lead or support interactions with the Client, and feed into the resolution of issues from the Regulator and wider SZC Project.
Additionally, the Safety Requirements Lead may also be required to produce technical documentation to support the ongoing replication process for the SZC Project and carry out Nuclear Safety Categorisation of SZC design changes.
Who you are…
- Degree qualified Engineer (in an appropriate scientific or engineering discipline),
- Knowledge of Safety Requirements in the Nuclear sector,
- Experience in a relevant position such (preferably from a highly regulated industry),
- The ability to take a strategic view with good interpersonal skills and be able to communicate at all levels,
- Motivated and disciplined with an ability to work to deadlines and prioritise work across multiple workstreams,
- Able to write and review technical documents which present complex arguments clearly,
- Take a proactive approach to management and resolution of technical topics,
- Strong organisational and communication skills, able to liaise between multiple stakeholders and maintain a clear overview for specific topics.
Your background may include some of the following:
- Knowledge of the EPR design or other PWR designs,
- Knowledge of Fault Studies and PSA topics,
- Leadership skills,
- French communication would be advantageous.
Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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