Principal Safety Assessor - Criticality

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As a Principal Safety Assessor - Criticality you will Provide and Manage Criticality Safety Assessment services and support to the Springfields Site. Working alongside the existing Principal Safety Assessor - Criticality.

You will report to the Senior Nuclear Safety Officer and be located at Springfields Fuel Site.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development and modification of Criticality Safety Cases through authoring Criticality Safety Case documentation, including:

   

• Hazard identification, Hazard Assessments (HAZANs), deterministic and quantitative assessments, designation of proportionate safety measures and ALARP justifications;

• Produce Criticality Accident Alarm location and adequacy assessments;

• Liaison with designers, engineering, plant operators and other specialist safety disciplines, e.g. Human Factors, Fire, Criticality, Radiological Shielding, Environmental, to produce and present coherent and comprehensive safety cases;

• Provide direct and Intelligent Customer oversight of criticality safety assessment resource, including contractors, for existing facilities.

• Provide oversight of framework contracts with supply chain.

• Be an Intelligent Customer to support major projects.

• Support the Senior Nuclear Safety Officer in managing the Springfields Site Safety Case Process including the Periodic Review program.

• Provide Criticality Safety input to Management Safety Committees.

• Support the Site Emergency response.

• Provide Criticality Safety training to Site Personnel.

• Conduct Criticality Safety Inspections.

• Support appropriate national working groups e.g. Working Party on Criticality.

• Support the ongoing development of Criticality Assessment methodology.

Qualifications:

• You will be an experienced and experienced Criticality safety assessor with a proven track record of producing and overseeing the production of Criticality Safety Assessments.

• Expertise in Criticality safety assessment techniques.

• Experience working as part of a muti-discipline team producing integrated safety cases for nuclear facilities.

• Experience of HAZOPs.

• Experience using Monte-Carlo Neutronics codes e.g. MONK, MCNP.

• In depth knowledge of relevant UK regulations and standards.

• Mentor and leadership skills.

• Flexible in approach to support delivery.

• Degree in a relevant scientific discipline or equivalent, with typically at least 5 years (SQEP 3) relevant nuclear safety experience.

• Minimum SC Security Clearance.

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