Nuclear Safety Engineer

Join NUVIA UK as a Nuclear Safety Engineer, a remote position with occasional travel across the UK. You will provide expert nuclear safety advice, assurance, and independent challenge across major infrastructure and nuclear programs. Your role will involve leading nuclear safety assessments, reviewing safety cases, and collaborating with program teams and stakeholders. You will also support the development and continuous improvement of nuclear safety governance and assurance processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert nuclear safety advice, assurance, and independent challenge across major infrastructure and nuclear programmes.
• Lead and contribute to nuclear safety assessments, design reviews, technical assurance activities, and readiness reviews.
• Review safety cases, technical submissions, design changes, and project documentation, providing robust challenge and recommendations.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Preferred

• 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.