Senior Safety Case Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Cavendish Nuclear as a Senior Safety Case Engineer, shaping vital clean energy and defence projects by developing critical safety case solutions. This role offers a flexible, permanent, full-time position within a leading organisation focused on nuclear safety and resilience.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead safety case contributions to major bids and project development.
- Develop safety case scopes, schedules, and verification plans.
- Produce and review essential safety case documentation and technical reports.
- Support hazard identification and risk assessment processes.
- Requires proven experience in highly regulated environments and safety case documentation.
- Must be a sole UK national able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About Cavendish Nuclear
At Cavendish Nuclear, we are dedicated to creating a safe and secure world. We are looking for a Senior Safety Case Engineer to join our Business Winning team at one of our main UK sites: Warrington, Preston, Leicester, Newbury, or Bristol.
As part of our Business Winning team, you will play a key role in developing safety case solutions that secure major clean-energy, nuclear-defence, and decommissioning programmes, contributing to the UK’s long-term resilience. You will influence high-value bids and guide technical excellence from the early stages of project development.
The Role
As a Senior Safety Case Engineer within our Business Winning team, you will leverage your deep safety case knowledge in the early phases of project development. This is a full-time, permanent role based at one of our main sites, with hybrid working arrangements available. Travel to other Cavendish Nuclear and customer locations may be required.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Lead safety-case contributions to major bids.
- Develop safety case scopes, schedules, and verification plans.
- Produce and review safety case documentation and technical reports.
- Support hazard identification and risk assessment processes.
- Promote collaboration and continuous improvement.
Essential Experience:
- Proven experience within a highly regulated environment.
- Experience contributing to safety case documentation.
- Understanding of ALARP principles and ONR Safety Assessment Principles.
- Ability to prepare technical analyses and safety submissions.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance.
What We Offer:
- Attractive Salary + Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to Digital GP services, annual health checks, and nutritional consultations
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- 10-days special paid leave for Reservists
- Holiday Trading scheme
- ‘Be Kind Day’ volunteering leave
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment
About Cavendish Nuclear:
Cavendish Nuclear is a team of approximately 5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. We contribute to critical projects in clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, impacting energy security and national protection. Join us to be part of shaping a lasting future with meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. We are happy to discuss flexible working options.