Graduate Safety Case Engineer

As a Graduate Safety Case Engineer, you will support the development and maintenance of safety cases across UKAEA facilities, working closely with experienced Safety Case Engineers, ATO holders, and the Chief Engineer function to assess the fitness for service of safety-related equipment. You will assist in evaluating proposed modifications, learn how safety advice is provided to designers, and engage with external peer reviewers who provide independent assurance of the effectiveness of UKAEA's safety cases and safety arguments.

As part of the 20% dedicated to training and development, you will complete a core suite of activities aimed at enhancing your professional and business skills, with flexibility to tailor the programme to both your personal development and the needs of your specific role.

Your core responsibilities:

• Collect technical information and co-ordinate expertise from within UKAEA and from external specialist service providers; this will go on to support lead Safety Case authors to deliver Safety Case and Safety Engineering activities.
• Support Safety Case authors to prepare Safety Cases for UKAEA facilities; This involves collating information from those managing the facility, Health Physics, Waste management and Safety Group, preparation for and support running HAZOP meetings and output reports. Working with the Safety Case author to select and summarise information relevant to the safety case using methods such as probabilistic risk assessment and selecting appropriate values for use in modelling equations.
• Contribute to the preparation of Safety Case documents in support of plant modifications and operations. This involves collecting information from the RO for the modification and from the facility manager. Working alongside the Safety Case author to review the existing safety case and determine whether the safety limits are being challenged.
• Technical assessments in support of the Safety Case. This would involve research into assessment methods and proposing a methodology.

Salary

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Programme

Department

Office of the Chief Engineer - Staff

Discipline

Human Resources

Site Location

UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire

Type of Employment

Full-time

Reference Number

REF3930O

• Degree in Science or Engineering from 2025 or '26
• Confident with all Microsoft applications including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• Driven, with a strong appetite to learn, research, investigate, and take on new challenges
• Able to collaborate effectively and communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Well organised and adaptable with the ability to plan and prioritise workload

A full list of our benefits can be found here but highlights include:

• £35,227 base salary
• Final salary defined benefit scheme with an equivalent of 21.5% employer pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
• Flexible and hybrid working options

UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

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