Principal Safety Case Specialist

Principal Safety Case Specialist

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: £58,500 - £92,480 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

AWE is looking to expand our team within Safety Case Assessment. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert, your role will be pivotal in the assessment of nuclear, explosive, and other major hazards. Our safety case teams are at the forefront of a wide variety of work, involving ground-breaking innovation and technical challenges across a wide range of projects associated with:

• Planning future systems in support of the UK's long-term strategic deterrent.
• Maintaining and extending the life of existing facilities
• Decommissioning of the redundant facilities.
• There are exciting opportunities to develop careers both within, and beyond, AWE.

Who are we looking for?

• Experience of leading and managing the technical input to the planning and production of key safety documentation to facilitate operations in challenging facilities.
• Deliver safety assessments and other technical safety documentation to agreed AWE standards for exciting new project delivery.
• Provides technical input to the design and/or delivery of technical training.
• Mentor nuclear safety analysts and senior nuclear safety analysts as part of a planned development activity.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Knowledge and experience of working on a range of safety cases across different industries ideally radiological, chemical and/or explosive hazards.
• Knowledge of the techniques used for Safety Case Assessment.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, report and presentation skills.
• Experience in a nuclear, high hazard and/or highly regulated industry.
• Professional membership to a relevant chartered body (desirable).

We do need you to have the following:

• Degree in a science or engineering based subject or vocational qualification (HND or equivalent) and/or extensive practical experience.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

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