Principal Safety Case Consultant -Nuclear

Principal Safety Case Consultant

Warrington | Bristol | Leicester | Hybrid Working
£70,000-£80,000 + Excellent Benefits
Full-Time | Permanent

Lead the Safety Strategy Behind the UK's Most Complex Nuclear Projects. Are you an experienced Principal Safety Case Consultant ready to lead high‑profile nuclear programmes and influence safety strategy at the highest level? We’re looking for an accomplished safety professional to provide technical leadership across a diverse portfolio of major nuclear projects. You’ll work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams, shape safety case strategies from concept through to delivery, mentor the next generation of consultants, and ensure compliance with the UK’s rigorous nuclear regulatory standards.

As a Principal Safety Case Consultant, you will provide expert leadership across the full project lifecycle, ensuring the successful delivery of complex safety case activities while driving technical quality and regulatory compliance.

• Provide nuclear safety expertise throughout design, development, and project delivery.
• Lead and facilitate HAZID and HAZOP studies while developing robust Hazard Management Strategies.
• Manage the production of radiological safety assessments, PSRs, PCSRs, and other key nuclear safety documentation.
• Define and lead safety case strategy, ensuring compliance with UK nuclear regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical oversight of supporting calculations, assessments, and engineering reports.
• Lead safety case delivery teams and coordinate work undertaken by specialist suppliers where required.
• Manage project delivery against programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Coach and mentor Safety Case Consultants to build capability across the wider team.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and specialist disciplines to deliver integrated safety solutions.

You’ll bring: extensive experience delivering nuclear safety cases across complex engineering projects; strong knowledge of multidisciplinary engineering and its integration into safety case development; understanding of specialist safety disciplines such as criticality assessment, shielding and dose assessment, environmental assessment, and human factors; relevant nuclear legislation and regulatory requirements; excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; experience leading, coaching, and developing technical teams;

an engineering or science degree (or equivalent experience);
Chartered Engineer status, or actively working towards chartership (desirable); eligibility to obtain and maintain SC Security Clearance.

• Competitive salary of £70,000-£80,000
• Flexible hybrid working
• Generous annual leave
• Matched pension contributions and life assurance
• Digital GP service, annual health checks and wellbeing support
• Professional membership fees paid
• Employee share scheme
• Retail discounts and shopping savings portal
• Holiday trading scheme
• Paid volunteering day each year
• Additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists
• Genuine opportunities for career progression within a growing technical consultancy