Band 3 Nuclear Safety Inspector Fault Analysis

Job Purpose

As the UK’s independent nuclear regulator, our mission is to ensure safe nuclear for a secure and sustainable future. Our primary role is to ensure the highest standard of nuclear safety, civil nuclear security and safeguards, and conventional health and safety are maintained at nuclear facilities across our nation.

As an inspector your job will be varied, and you are likely to undertake a range of regulatory roles across the sector: from regulating the construction of new nuclear build to the decommissioning of legacy facilities. Some inspectors focus on undertaking planned and reactive inspections on site, while others will assess safety submissions or manage discrete intervention projects. Additionally, there may be opportunities to conduct investigations, manage research projects, support our international work, and mentor staff to help us develop the next generation of inspectors.

You will be a specialist inspector within our Fault Analysis profession and you will be primarily concerned with assessing the duty holder’s safety case and arrangements to identify and protect against fault conditions that could arise at their installation. This includes assessment of whether a duty holder has appropriately identified faults, undertaken analysis of their progression and potential consequences, and has identified suitable and sufficient safety measures to prevent or mitigate them.

The Fault Analysis profession is made up from three specialisms:
Fault Studies, Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) and Fuel & Core. We welcome candidates with skills and experience across these but this opportunity is primarily focussed on the PSA specialism. Your work will be varied and will include conducting detailed technical assessments of PSA models, assessing duty holder arrangements for developing and using PSA, influencing improvements when you identify shortfalls, and identifying risk insights from PSA to share with other inspectors.

Currently, there are no line management responsibilities. However, at this level there could be an expectation to manage staff in the future.

This post may be undertaken from a base at any one of ONR’s office locations (Bootle, Cheltenham or London). You may be eligible for a relocation package up to £15,000.

This post requires some travel including overnight stays predominantly across the United Kingdom and occasionally abroad. The successful applicant requires a full driving licence which permits the holder to drive in the UK unless reasonable adjustments can be made under the Equality Act 2010.

ONR operates hybrid working (working in the office and or at home) as part of our flexible working policy. There is an expectation that everyone will spend time in the office on a regular basis, recognising that some work is better done face to face. Managers will work with their teams on what works best to meet individual, team, business and organisational needs to enable collaboration, as well as balancing personal choice and wellbeing.

Our colleagues are from all walks of life with varied personal experiences and career journeys into ONR. We want the best people for our roles. As an inclusive employer we value individuals’ contributions, regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. Our values ‘supportive, open-minded, fair and accountable’ are central to this. We invest in our people to build capability, resilience and promote wellbeing in our great teams, underpinned by our inherent focus on inclusion and excellence.

We recognise our role in supporting those leaving the Armed Forces and offer a Veterans guaranteed interview scheme. We also offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria and opt into these schemes. Eligibility for the veteran scheme includes:

• served for at least one year in His Majesty's Armed Forces (as a Regular or Reserve);
• be in transition from, or ceased to be a member of, His Majesty’s Armed Forces, and not already be employed by ONR.

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