Principal Safety Assessment Specialist

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* Location:

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* ** RG7 4PR
**, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with
** free onsite parking**.
** Package:  £64,340 - £101,700 per annum** (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
AWE is currently recruiting for a
** Principal Safety Assessment Specialist
** within the
** Infrastructure Project Delivery (IPD),
** which is tasked with delivering a significant portfolio of conventional, nuclear, explosive new facilities together with implementing major re-kits to existing infrastructure.
* Leads and manages the technical input to the planning and production of safety documentation.
* Delivers safety assessments and other technical safety documentation to agreed AWE standards.
* Monitors the production and delivery of safety documentation, using appropriate metrics.
* Ensure the implementing safety documentation requirements meet the standards set in the MSPs.
* Provides technical input to the production of Company and SESH policy, guidance and strategy.
* Provides technical input to the design and/or delivery of technical training.
* Mentor SAS Assessors and Senior SAS members as part of a planned development activity.
* Maintain and promote high personal standards in security, environment, safety and health.
* Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.
* Lead a Safety Assessment Specialist team in the production, delivery of safety justification/documentation and through the governance process.
* Take ownership of safety justification/documentation as directed by Group Leader, Nuclear Safety or SESH Management.
* Ensuring that company strategies, policies and management system requirements for safety are communicated and understood.
* Contributing to processes that assess performance of the development and use of safety assessments and Licence Condition compliance and identify where improvements could be made.
* To assist with verification and checking safety documentation.
* Mentoring others in safety assessment approaches, documentation and techniques.
* Maintaining and promoting high standards in security, environment, safety and health.
* The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.
* Deputise for Group Leader, Nuclear Safety in meetings when requested.
* Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, report and presentation skills.
* Extensive experience in the field of safety assessment for radiological, chemical and/or explosive hazards.
* Experience in a nuclear, high hazard and/or highly regulated     industry.
* Experience of several Domains (Management system, Front End, Project design, Commissioning, Operations, Decommissioning), gained within or outside AWE.
* Experience of working/operating in a high hazard and/or highly regulated industry (probably nuclear).Degree in a science or engineering based subject or vocational qualification (HND or equivalent) and/or extensive practical experience.

Safety Assessment Specialists are expected to be able to   undertake a range of techniques. A list of common techniques is included in the Capability Matrix. The specific skills/ techniques that are required for a role/deployment   will be identified as part of the tasking process. Extensive   knowledge of these techniques is anticipated.
* Professional membership to a relevant charted body.
* Application of technical skills across the nuclear lifecycle (project
-decommissioning).
* Application of skill across different hazard types (i.e. proportional risk assessment).
* Experience from across the nuclear lifecycle (projects - decommissioning).
* Experience of skill from across different hazard types.

The **'Working at AWE' page
** on our website is where you can find full details in the **'AWE Benefits Guide'.
*** We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
* You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary…