Nuclear Safety Engineer

• Job Title: Nuclear Safety Engineer
• Location: Remote (Includes Occasional UK Wide Travel)
• Work Pattern: Remote with Travel
• Salary/Rate Banding: Up to £70,000 DOE, Contract rates DOE

There has never been a more exciting time to join NUVIA UK. As a result of significant growth and major contract awards, including the STEP fusion programme and major frameworks supporting the UK's defence and nuclear infrastructure, we are expanding our capability and delivering some of the UK's most innovative and strategically important programmes. Operating across the nuclear, defence and energy sectors, our work supports critical national infrastructure, strengthens energy security and contributes to the UK's long-term resilience.

• Provide expert nuclear safety advice, assurance and independent challenge across major infrastructure and nuclear programmes, ensuring compliance with governance frameworks, safety standards and regulatory requirements.
• Act as the organisation’s nuclear safety subject matter expert, supporting programme teams with the interpretation and application of nuclear safety principles, policies and industry best practice.
• Lead and contribute to nuclear safety assessments, design reviews, technical assurance activities and readiness reviews, ensuring safety risks are identified, understood and effectively managed.
• Review safety cases, technical submissions, design changes and project documentation, providing robust challenge and recommendations to support informed decision-making.
• Work collaboratively with programme teams, customers, Design Authority representatives and supply chain partners to ensure nuclear safety requirements are embedded throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of nuclear safety governance, assurance processes, management arrangements and decision-making frameworks.
• Identify, assess and escalate nuclear safety risks, issues, gaps and emerging concerns, helping to drive effective mitigation strategies and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance, reports, assurance findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, supporting safe, compliant and successful programme delivery.
• Advise on the appropriate application of proportionate, risk-based controls, ensuring effective governance without unnecessary assurance burden.
• Support tender evaluations, supplier engagement and technical discussions where specialist nuclear safety expertise is required.
• Contribute to the development of organisational nuclear safety capability through mentoring, coaching, knowledge sharing and stakeholder engagement.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, promoting a positive nuclear safety culture and collaborative working environment.
• Champion best practice and lessons learned, driving innovation and continual improvement across nuclear safety and assurance activities.Position Requirements:

Essential Experience

• Significant experience in nuclear engineering, nuclear safety, nuclear infrastructure or defence nuclear operations.
• Experience working with nuclear plant, submarine systems, reactor plant, nuclear support systems or nuclear safety implicated infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of nuclear systems, safety functions, hazard control and the risks associated with design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance or modification of nuclear-related assets.
• Experience assessing the nuclear safety significance of technical issues, design information, changes, concessions, deviations or delivery outputs.
• Experience applying proportionate, risk-informed judgement in a nuclear safety context.
• Experience reviewing technical documentation, safety case evidence, commissioning evidence, quality records or management system outputs.
• Experience providing nuclear safety advice, challenge and assurance to senior stakeholders, programme teams or delivery organisations.
• Experience working in complex, multi-disciplinary engineering environments where nuclear safety, technical performance, cost, schedule and deliverability must be balanced.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain nuclear safety risk clearly to non-specialists.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, MOD estate, authorised / licensed sites or other defence nuclear environments.
• Experience of build, commissioning, handover, operation, maintenance, repair or modification of nuclear systems or facilities.
• Experience working with or supporting an Authorisee, Licensee, Design Authority, Regulator or equivalent nuclear governance body.
• Experience supporting nuclear safety implicated infrastructure programmes, including requirements, design review, assurance, handover or safety case interfaces.
• Experience supporting organisational change, governance improvement or intelligent client capability in a nuclear safety environment.

Qualifications:

Essential

• Degree-level qualification in engineering, science, nuclear technology or another relevant technical discipline.
• Chartered status with a relevant professional body or working towards chartered status.
• Strong technical understanding of nuclear systems, safety functions, defence-in-depth, hazard control and nuclear safety risk.
• Ability to judge whether an SSC, design change, document, deviation or delivery output is nuclear safety significant.
• Ability to review and challenge technical evidence, safety case claims, commissioning evidence and assurance records.
• Strong understanding of proportionality, risk-informed decision-making and evidence-based assurance in a nuclear safety context.
• Security Check clearance, or ability to obtain it.