Criticality Specialist

Springfields Fuels Limited is looking to recruit an experienced Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer to join the existing Site Nuclear Safety Assessment Team.

The successful candidate will play a vital role supporting Springfields in safely delivering its current business objectives and in developing new business opportunities.

The main aspects of the role will include:

• Providing nuclear criticality safety advice to designers, engineers and plant management in support of modifications to operating plant or design of new facilities;
• Delivery of criticality assessments in support of the Periodic Review for facilities across the site;
• Preparation of Nuclear Criticality Safety Assessments – in the form of Safety Memoranda or HAZANs as appropriate;
• Attendance at HAZOPs and other comparable hazard identification meetings;
• Interaction as required with Plant, Engineering Substantiation and other specialist personnel to derive and confirm delivery of all proposed Operational or Engineered safety measures;
• Support the formal checking of assessments prepared by other team members in accordance with Springfields quality management arrangements;
• Production of underpinning reference data including the use of the MONK neutronics code.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Science or engineering expertise (physics, chemistry, mechanical, chemical or process engineering, Degree qualified or equivalent);
• A record of accomplishment of successful delivery of criticality assessments and underpinning reference documents in support of operations at a nuclear licensed Site;
• Experience working as a criticality specialist within multi-disciplined project teams.