Fuel Route Safety Expert Specialist
$71,000–$93,187 year
HybridDerby, England, United Kingdom
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 that demonstrate compliance with ALARP principles and wider regulatory requirements. 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 within your field. 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
- 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
- A passion for mentoring others
- Ability to drive high standards within a safety-critical environment
- Regular collaboration with colleagues across Derby, Warrington and Manchester
- Occasional travel to customer, supplier and regulatory locations
- Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
- Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in fuel import
- Experience in core loading
- Experience in storage
- Experience in cask loading
- Experience in developing safety justifications
- Experience in responding to regulatory feedback
- Experience in supporting major programme submissions
- Experience in leading the development of safety justifications
- Experience in leading the development of fault studies
- Experience in leading the development of risk management strategies
- Experience in demonstrating compliance with ALARP principles
- Experience in demonstrating compliance with wider regulatory requirements
- Experience in providing expert guidance
- Experience in providing governance
- Experience in making decisions throughout the design lifecycle
- Experience in collaborating closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Experience in ensuring effective system integration
- Experience in ensuring design maturity
- Experience in ensuring successful programme delivery
- Building strong relationships with regulators
- Building strong relationships with customers
- Building strong relationships with suppliers
- Building strong relationships with industry partners
- Representing Rolls-Royce SMR as a recognised expert within your field
- Helping to strengthen capability
- Helping to drive technical excellence
- Helping to drive a culture of continuous improvement
- If you meet around 75% of the requirements
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