Fuel Route Safety Expert Specialist
$71,000–$93,187 year
HybridDerby, England, United Kingdom
Derby, England, United KingdomHybridFull Time$71,000–$93,187 yearMedium
Full TimeMedium
Job Summary
Provide technical ownership of the fuel route safety case, ensuring a coherent approach across fuel import, inspection, handling, core loading, storage, and cask loading. Lead the development, review, and continuous improvement of safety case documentation while responding to regulatory feedback and supporting major programme submissions. Develop robust safety justifications, fault studies, and risk management strategies demonstrating compliance with ALARP principles. Act as the technical authority for complex engineering challenges, providing expert guidance and governance throughout the design lifecycle. Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure effective system integration and successful programme delivery. Build strong relationships with regulators, customers, suppliers, and industry partners representing Rolls-Royce SMR as a recognised expert. Mentor and develop engineers across the organisation to strengthen capability and technical excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent)
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Extensive experience within the UK nuclear sector
- Experience in fuel handling
- Experience in fuel route operations
- Experience in nuclear power station environments
- Strong understanding of the regulatory landscape
- Proven expertise in developing, defending and maintaining nuclear safety cases
- Experience with regulatory submissions
- Experience with fault studies
- Experience with design substantiation
- Experience with defence-in-depth approaches
- Deep technical knowledge of fuel route systems
- Knowledge of nuclear safety principles
- Knowledge of ALARP methodologies
- Knowledge of safety assessment techniques such as HAZOP
- Knowledge of design risk management
- Strong systems engineering capability
- Experience with requirements management
- Experience with functional analysis
- Experience with interface development within complex engineering programmes
- Credibility and confidence to influence senior stakeholders
- Ability to challenge constructively
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues to a wide range of audiences
- A collaborative and proactive approach
- Passion for mentoring others
- Ability to drive high standards within a safety-critical environment
- Ability to obtain Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
- Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check
- Ability to travel to customer, supplier and regulatory locations
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in fuel import
- Experience in core loading
- Experience in storage
- Experience in cask loading
- Experience in developing safety justifications
- Experience in risk management strategies
- Experience demonstrating compliance with ALARP principles
- Experience demonstrating compliance with wider regulatory requirements
- Experience providing expert guidance, governance and decision-making throughout the design lifecycle
- Experience collaborating closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Experience ensuring effective system integration
- Experience ensuring design maturity
- Experience supporting successful programme delivery
- Experience building strong relationships with regulators, customers, suppliers and industry partners
- Experience representing Rolls-Royce SMR as a recognised expert within your field
- Experience in shaping technical strategy
- Experience influencing key design decisions
- Experience leading the development of safety justifications
- Experience supporting programme delivery and regulatory approval
- Experience providing technical leadership across the fuel lifecycle
- Experience supporting regulatory engagement
- Experience supporting critical programme milestones
- Experience working across multidisciplinary teams including systems engineering, nuclear components, EC&I, human factors and power station integration
- Experience providing end-to-end technical leadership for the safety case
- Experience ensuring a coherent and integrated approach across fuel import, inspection, handling, core loading, storage and cask loading
- Experience leading the development, review and continuous improvement of safety case documentation
- Experience responding to regulatory feedback
- Experience supporting major programme submissions
- Experience developing robust safety justifications
- Experience developing robust fault studies
- Experience developing robust risk management strategies
- Experience demonstrating compliance with UK nuclear regulatory expectations
- Experience shaping technical strategy
- Experience influencing key design decisions
- Experience leading the development of safety justifications that support programme delivery and regulatory approval
- Experience becoming a recognised subject matter expert
- Experience representing Rolls-Royce SMR with regulators, customers, industry bodies and senior stakeholders
- Experience driving excellence across a safety-critical and highly regulated environment
- Experience providing technical ownership of the fuel route safety case
- Experience ensuring a robust, defensible and aligned approach
- Experience ensuring design solutions are robust, defensible and aligned with UK nuclear regulatory expectations
- Experience working at the heart of the Reactor Plant and Systems Team
- Experience providing technical leadership across the fuel lifecycle
- Experience supporting regulatory engagement and critical programme milestones
- Experience acting as the technical authority for complex engineering challenges
- Experience providing expert guidance, governance and decision-making throughout the design lifecycle
- Experience collaborating closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure effective system integration, design maturity and successful programme delivery
- Experience building strong relationships with regulators, customers, suppliers and industry partners
- Experience representing Rolls-Royce SMR as a recognised expert within your field
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers across the organisation
- Experience helping to strengthen capability, technical excellence and a culture of continuous improvement
- Experience in developing, reviewing and maintaining nuclear safety cases
- Experience with regulatory submissions
- Experience with fault studies
- Experience with design substantiation
- Experience with defence-in-depth approaches
- Experience with ALARP methodologies
- Experience with safety assessment techniques such as HAZOP
- Experience with design risk management
- Experience with requirements management
- Experience with functional analysis
- Experience with interface development within complex engineering programmes
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders
- Experience challenging constructively
- Experience communicating complex technical issues to a wide range of audiences
- Experience with a collaborative and proactive approach
- Experience with a passion for mentoring others
- Experience driving high standards within a safety-critical environment
- Experience in fuel handling
- Experience in fuel route operations
- Experience in nuclear power station environments
- Experience with a strong understanding of the regulatory landscape
- Experience in developing, defending and maintaining nuclear safety cases
- Experience with regulatory submissions
- Experience with fault studies
- Experience with design substantiation
- Experience with defence-in-depth approaches
- Deep technical knowledge of fuel route systems
- Knowledge of nuclear safety principles
- Knowledge of ALARP methodologies
- Knowledge of safety assessment techniques such as HAZOP
- Knowledge of design risk management
- Strong systems engineering capability
- Experience with requirements management
- Experience with functional analysis
- Experience with interface development within complex engineering programmes
- The credibility and confidence to influence senior stakeholders
- Ability to challenge constructively
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues to a wide range of audiences
- A collaborative and proactive approach
- Combined with a passion for mentoring others
- Driving high standards within a safety-critical environment
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