Risk Consultant

Position: Nuclear Risk Engineer – Remote Power / Nuclear

The Nuclear Risk Engineer identifies, analyzes, and mitigates risks related to nuclear facilities, materials, and radiation operations. The role combines nuclear engineering expertise with probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), systems engineering, and regulatory compliance to ensure safe, resilient operations of nuclear assets.

• Risk Assessment & Analysis: Conduct PRA and deterministic safety analyses, HAZID, FMEA, and fault/event tree modeling. Evaluate hazards including seismic, flooding, fire, cyber, and human factors. Model severe accident scenarios and mitigation effectiveness.
• Regulatory Compliance & Safety Assurance: Ensure compliance with NRC, IAEA, ONR, CNSC, and other applicable frameworks. Support safety cases, licensing submissions, audits, inspections, and technical documentation.
• Operational Risk Monitoring: Monitor plant risk profiles during operations and outages. Support configuration risk management and real‑time risk assessment. Identify systemic trends from events and near‑misses.
• Risk Mitigation & Engineering Controls: Recommend engineering, procedural, and administrative measures. Assess safety system performance, redundancy, and defense‑in‑depth effectiveness. Support design modifications to improve resilience.
• Emergency & Severe Accident Planning: Contribute to emergency preparedness, scenario planning, and radiological consequence modeling. Develop mitigation strategies for beyond‑design‑basis events.
• Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement: Prepare technical risk reports for management and regulators. Present findings to multidisciplinary teams and collaborate across operations, maintenance, cybersecurity, and engineering.

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Nuclear, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, Physics, or related field. MSc/PhD preferred for advanced or research‑intensive roles.
• Experience: 10+ years in nuclear safety, risk assessment, or reactor engineering. Hands‑on PRA experience (Level 1–3 preferred). Familiarity with nuclear plant and safety systems.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  PRA software (SAPHIRE, Risk Spectrum, CAFTA), fault/event tree modeling, radiological consequence analysis, regulatory frameworks, safety case development. Data analysis proficiency (MATLAB, Python, R desirable).
• Soft Skills: Analytical thinking, attention to detail, integrity, clear communication, teamwork, ability to operate in high‑consequence environments.

• Professional Engineer (PE) or Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
• Experience with advanced reactors (SMRs, Gen IV) and cyber‑physical risk integration.
• Human reliability analysis (HRA) experience.
• Safety case authoring or regulatory interface experience.

• Accuracy and quality of risk models and safety analyses.
• Regulatory compliance and audit outcomes.
• Timely completion of risk assessments and safety submissions.
• Contribution to continuous safety improvement initiatives.