Radiological Safety Assessor

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

AXIOM is one of the DSA alliance partners and is an unincorporated Joint Venture (JV) made up of four major engineering contracting companies each with complementary capabilities and skills. The members have excellent nuclear pedigrees, demonstrated expertise and effective track records across the UK nuclear fleet and related nuclear industries.

AXIOM provides process, mechanical, civil structural and architectural, electrical, instrumentation, control and safety capabilities to support Sellafield Ltd.

As well as having a large, dedicated team working for Sellafield Ltd, each has immense reach-back capability into parent organisations for knowledge, expertise and innovations gained from within, and external to, the nuclear industry. Examples of other markets include Oil and Gas, Environment, Mining and Aerospace.

You will be joining a large existing team that clearly understands the different requirements for optioneering, solution inspired, design decommissioning, operating plant asset care, infrastructure and new builds.

A Radiological Safety Assessor is required to support the Front End Definition (FED) Team across a portfolio of projects within the Spent Fuel Management value stream. The role holder will integrate all nuclear safety case aspects where applicable to support FED and stages 1/2 of the SGP

The role will typically involve the following:

• Delivering the requirements of SLP 2.17.02 for projects in stages 1/2 of the Sellafield Gated Process (Feasibility and Appraise and Select)
• Support to optioneering studies
• Leading HAZOPs (typically HAZOP 0/1)
• Development and evaluation of Hazard Management Strategies for a range of options
• Production of Safety Case Summaries/ Confidence Statements as required
• Engagement with regulators
• Developing effective engagement relationships with the key stakeholders including & Other specialist assessment teams within S&RM

Here's What You'll Need:

• Significant experience as Safety assessor (Sellafield SQEP 3 or equivalent)
• Experienced SQEP HAZOP chair
• Ability to access up to C2/R2 areas on plant for surveys, if required.
• Experience of support to projects in early stages (feasibility/ appraise and select)
• Experience of regulator engagement
• BPSS minimum, SC Preferred

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

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