Principal Nuclear Safety Consultant

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

3/21/2025

Job Description
Within the Nuclear Safety discipline of Orano Limited, you will deliver technically competent documents striving to exceed client requirements, by working independently as well as supporting experienced safety consultants.

You will support our clients as part of an Orano team in projects of new build, decommissioning or ongoing operational facilities in providing safety cases and associated assessments. To ensure work is delivered to a high standard, timely and to the programme agreed. As projects progress, or new ones become available, you will have the opportunity to develop new skills and to support, mentor graduate consultants within the business.

Role and responsibilities

The Nuclear Safety & Technical / Project Lead will deliver complex nuclear safety cases, with experience of the full lifecycle of facilities, to a variety of clients.

Responsibilities will include:

• Developing and presenting robust and reasoned arguments in a rational and coherent manner
• Delivering consultancy that meets, and exceeds the expectations of the client, in regard to technical excellence and the quality of deliverables
• Delivering consultancy that meets, and exceeds the expectations of the client, in terms of timescales and cost, in a way that supports the long-term growth of the business and its reputation
• Managing this work (in the form of small to medium sized projects) either as a project or technical lead
• Delivering the work within budget and to the agreed programme whilst keeping track of the project (all aspects)
• Liaising with all concerned of both technical and commercial progress
• Developing skills in growing projects
• Identifying opportunities with clients and supporting, mentoring, coaching and helping others to develop within the business
  
  

This role can be based at our Warrington or Abingdon office.


We are much more interested in what you could do, than what you have already done. The Nuclear Safety team encourage diversity of thought and welcome applications of candidates with transferable skills that can be applied to our projects, therefore, all candidates will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

• Ability to confidently liaise with external stakeholders and team members, both oral and written.
• Ability to independently seek out or develop one’s own answer to challenging technical questions.
• Ability to organise one’s own time and the time of others to ensure internal / external deadlines are achieved and Client expectations are exceeded.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Minimum of 8 years professional engineering/technical specialist experience.
• Have a degree or equivalent in engineering, science or related field of study.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and experience in the management and production of complex safety cases, for a number of plant types at different lifecycle stages, as part of a team, demonstrating the capability to work unsupervised within a team.
• A good working knowledge of the QMS, in particular to the ‘Opportunity to Order’ and ‘Order to Project Completion’ requirements.
• Good understanding of the NEC 3 contract system.
• Familiarity with areas such as decommissioning, optioneering, best practice, human factors, radioactive materials transport, licensing, radioactive waste.
  
  

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permis

Orano Ltd - Abingdon
Orano Limited is the Orano group entity operating in the UK, working with the majority of the UK's nuclear clients and specialising in decommissioning, waste, and special nuclear material management. Orano Limited employs around 85 staff based at its offices in Abingdon, Warrington and Whitehaven. The company acts as the UK gateway to the global capability of Orano and combines this with a 40-year track record in the UK, marrying the group's international know-how with expertise in UK regulations and decades of UK nuclear site experience.

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