S - HEALTH, SAFETY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - S4 - Operations Nuclear Safety
Job Opening Title
Nuclear Safety & Licensing Manager
Job type
Non fixed term
Installed Base BU is in charge for Framatome's nuclear engineering and services for operating nuclear plants, for new build projects, and for installations in the decommissioning phase. The Installed Base BU has more than 60 years of international experience in all types of technologies on more than 380 reactors worldwide. With 4,600 employees in 15 countries, the Installed Base BU has a strong identity and its vision is to: “Deliver innovative products and services by putting our high-level skills to work to guarantee throughout the world a safe and competitive, low carbon source of energy.”
Framatome is implementing a modular plant for the assembly of fuels for the operation of nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom. This plant will be built in phases to meet short, medium, and long-term objectives. The investment project is led by Framatome and must be innovative to meet the challenges of the company and the United Kingdom.
Due to this new project, we are recruiting for a Safety & Licensing Manager.
Your mission is to support the project manager in all phases of studies, construction, and commissioning to ensure the control of risks and obtaining the necessary authorizations at each stage of the project. Coordination with the various licensing and permitting authorities is an essential element of the project’s success. The project is under the responsibility of the Industrial and Performance Department (IPD) of the Fuel BU and benefits from the expertise of its projects unit. As part of your activities, you report to the IPD Project Director. This support for the operational management of the project involves:
* Act as the primary point of contact for all related nuclear UK-based authorities involved in the project, including Office for Nuclear Regulation and Environmental Agency.
* Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between the French project team and local UK-based nuclear stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
* Identify and qualify a local subcontractor for risks assessment, mitigation plan and completion of a set of deliverables covering all nuclear and non-nuclear risks aspects as defined in the UK regulation. At the time of tendering engineering companies, the added value of the Nuclear Safety & Licensing Manager will be essential to select competitors and to ensure their timely responses.
* Coordinate with ONR and other authorities for definition of the licensing roadmap, ensure step-by-step communications, and ensure swift reply to comments and concerns raised by the ONR and other authorities.
* Ensure, with support of a French specialist, the completeness of all risks assessment, and mainly criticality, radioprotection, fire, human organization.
* Participate in project progress meetings.
* Under the project director management, report risks and progress during Gates Review (GR).
* Ensure completeness in due time of the requirements matrix, for the scope of work dedicated to nuclear safety.
* Review all change requests in order to assess their impact on nuclear safety and nuclear licensing.
* Plan / Coordinate / Manage the project deliverables of the nuclear safety and licensing scope of work.
More precisely for the Nuclear Safety, with support of the engineering team and the French specialist:
* Ensure completeness of the risks’ identification based on the experiences of similar plants (in France and Germany).
* Ensure an adequate risk mitigation plan, to the optimum required level. “Optimum” means to analyze the organizational, quality, cost, and schedule impacts.
Profile
To be considered, the following qualifications, skills, and experience are essential:
* Engineering master (or equivalent) with a wealth of experience in nuclear safety management, in a nuclear, industrial, and organizational environment comparable to that described in this offer.
* Oriented stakeholder, pro-active, you know how to communicate and are endowed with a team spirit that comes in a great ability to embark teams in a multidisciplinary environment.
* Agile and with a transversal vision, you have real qualities of mind synthesis, tenacity, and an objective/results orientation. You necessarily enjoy working in a team, in project mode.
This position will be UK based (ideally Bristol) with frequent travel to France.
Please note: This position is subject to Security clearance and Export Control authorisation.
We are offering a competitive salary depending on experience and benefits that include but are not limited to:
* 25 days annual leave per year raising to 28 (x1 day for 2 years service)
* 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) – 1% min Employee
* Individual and family private health care
* Life assurance (4x salary)
* Employee assistance programme (EAP)
* Income Protection
* Professional Body Membership (1 per year)
* Plus more including access to training and development opportunities.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.
Everyone will be considered without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
Job location
United Kingdom
Travel
25%
Minimum level of education required
Master
Minimum level of experience required
Experienced
Background checking required?
Yes
Reference number
2024-17477
Publication date
11/11/2024
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