Job Title: Principal Engineer – Independent Nuclear Assurance Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role Salary: Competitive What you’ll be doing: Performing independent inspection, surveillance and concurrence of nuclear work on facilities, plant, equipment and nuclear support services, on-board and on-site to evaluate the nuclear and radiological safety and security performance at Barrow Inspecting and assessing the business’s capability to progress the submarine build and/or projects in the Site Redevelopment Programme to their relevant next stage through the ‘Hold Point Control’ process Inspecting the business against the requirements of relevant legislation to assess the business’ level of compliance Communicating, both in writing and verbally, the conclusions of inspections and their findings to various stakeholders at all levels, including external regulators, board members, senior managers and business peers Independently assessing the business’ emergency arrangements exercises, providing feedback to those developing and maintaining the arrangements Providing oversight and challenge to various safety/ security committees and groups to ensure due process is being followed, and continuing nuclear safety is not compromised Maintaining oversight of Independent Peer Review activity related to safety documentation aligned with individual Assurance Plans Developing, maintaining and deploying an effective Operational Experience feedback system for the Barrow site that encompasses all relevant nuclear and radiological incidents and events, from both internal and external sources Your skills and experiences: Essential: Working knowledge of nuclear site licence conditions/authorisation conditions & working on a nuclear licenced sites from a similar role and/or security regulations/ or an equivalent regulated industry. Experience of managing programmes of work within the nuclear industry or equivalent highly regulated industry Experience of engaging and influencing senior management and external regulators Desirable: Marine Engineering Submariner background – Nuclear Plant Operators or experience of Nuclear Submarine Build & Commissioning
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