Environmental Consultant; Nuclear

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Environmental Consultant (Nuclear)

£61,600 to £92,400 per annum depending on experience

Any FNC Office in the UK

Flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home.

The nuclear renaissance is here. From SMRs and AMRs to fusion, fuel cycle innovation and grid-scale resilience — we need environmental specialists, engineers, sharp analysts, and systems thinkers who are ready to make a national impact.

Frazer-Nash has over three decades of experience supporting clients to meet strict nuclear industry regulatory requirements across UK civil nuclear operations and nuclear elements of UK Defence platforms, infrastructure and equipment. We also support the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for over 15 years.

• Relevant degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Relevant professional membership. Holding or actively working towards Full / Chartered status.
• Significant experience writing and editing high quality outputs in a consultancy or advisory setting.
• Significant experience writing high quality bids and proposals in a consultancy or advisory setting.
• Commercial awareness and attention to detail to manage project scope, risks, and costs.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build productive working relationships at senior levels.
• Ability to efficiently manage time and prioritise tasks in a consultancy setting with frequent shifting priorities.

• Significant experience and demonstrable ability in at least two of the following:
  Experience developing Environmental Cases and/or Environmental Safety Cases (ESCs) within a nuclear context. Demonstratable ability in management arrangements, radioactive waste management, quantification of radiological waste, and sampling arrangements, techniques and systems.
• Extensive knowledge of Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Documents (BREFs). Experience conducting BAT assessments would be advantageous.
• Extensive understanding of Radioactive Substance Regulations (RSR) environmental permits. Management and delivery of nuclear site or non-nuclear RSR environmental permit applications, variations, transfers and surrenders would be advantageous.
• Understanding of the Nuclear Justification Process (Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004). Demonstratable track record in developing or reviewing nuclear justification documents for nuclear new build would be advantageous.
• Experience in undertaking environmental related work for Geological Disposal Facilities (UK GDF or international projects).
• Understanding of Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning Regulations (EIADR). Experience in preparing or reviewing Scoping Reports and/or Environmental Statements for nuclear decommissioning would be advantageous.

• Knowledge of Environmental Management Systems and their applicability to environmental permitting compliance.
• Extensive knowledge of UK and European environmental legislation, particularly the Environmental Permitting Regulations, Industrial Emissions Directive, together with other relevant legislation and guidance.
• Demonstrable history of engagement with regulators (including the ONR, EA/NRW/SEPA, DESNZ, Defra and/or defence regulators e.g. DNSR).
• Demonstrable experience in the management and delivery of Installation, Medium Combustion Plant, or water discharge and trade effluent environmental Permit applications, variations, transfers and surrenders.
• Understanding and experience relating to Development Consent Order activities.
• Delivery of work in wider capabilities such as sustainability, carbon, Life-Cycle Carbon Assessments (LCA) and climate resilience.

• Acting as a technical leader and subject matter specialist within the Group and wider business, specialising within the nuclear domain as an environmental specialist.
• Managing business development activities with both the existing client base and to secure new clients.
• Delivery of complex projects (e.g. technically complex; or multi-disciplinary; or high value; or high risk; or long duration etc.) to…