Engineering Consultant

An opportunity to build on your existing nuclear safety case experience in nuclear engineering, risk management and emergency preparedness.

Based in the North West with flexible working arrangements.

The role will be focused on supporting a specific highly regulated Licensee in Cumbria. Given the nature of current and future work, we prefer those with safety case experience relevant to that Licensee or other nuclear decommissioning and waste management experience.

This opportunity will involve you working as part of multi-person team, with support from colleagues across the wider organisation.

Outside of that specific workstream, within CRA you will be supporting and helping to develop the capability of our team providing consultancy services spanning Safety Case, emergency preparedness and Security & Resilience. This provides a stimulating mix of consultancy, engineering and analysis, along with the delivery of challenging and sometimes unique projects to clients in the nuclear and high hazard sectors in the UK and beyond.

Technical Specification

Essential Skills:

• Familiarity and understanding of nuclear safety cases
• Either the experience or the or appetite to interrogate Radiological Consequence Assessments and adapt them when appropriate to the contexts of specialist assessments.
• Experience in preparing Technical Reports.
• Demonstrable experience of the application of safety and risk engineering processes to identify hazards and vulnerabilities, author safety cases, and manage risk.

Desirable Skills:

• Hazard identification, assessment and management techniques e.g. HAZOP, FMEA, FTA, Event Tree Analysis, Hazard Logs
• REPPIR
• Resilience & Emergency Preparedness
• Severe Accident Analysis
• Cyber Security
• Nuclear Security Assessments

Personal / Mindset Specification

We are keen to speak to applicants with the following attributes:

• Good analytical thinking skills and an ability to quickly grasp complex issues, applying knowledge and experience to deliver pragmatic, prioritised, and proportionate solutions.
• Appetite and/or experience of applying new approaches or innovative solutions. It is not uncommon for our projects to be innovative or sometimes even First-of-a-Kind. As such, it can be common for us to research and develop the methodology in tandem with producing assessments with that methodology.
• Able to work at both ‘big picture’ and detail levels.
• Ability to communicate, listen, and work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders across different teams and business areas.
• Ability to build effective and strong working relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Self-propelled and proactive.
• An appetite for, or experience of, commercial activities e.g. business development.
• Commitment to CPD for yourself and for others through all the stages of your career. This will be met with equal commitment from your team and your company.
• You will be joining an emergent team within CRA. In the fullness of time, the successful applicants will be willing to develop and mentor more junior members of staff.

Requirements

• STEM background of experience and education. This may include a degree qualification in a STEM topic. But equally valid is any other route which demonstrates credibility to the client base. We would envisage a level of experience of 2 years and higher.