Nuclear Safety Engineer

Do you want the opportunity to work in support of operating reactors at Heysham 1?

Are you focused on delivering Nuclear Safety and Plant Performance?

At EDF, success is personal. Here you’ll develop a career that’s unique to you. Whether you want to move horizontally, deepen your specialty, or advance through the levels — it’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and be part be of our mission to help Britain achieve Net Zero.

The Opportunity

The Nuclear Safety Group maintains an oversight of nuclear safety at the Station with specific responsibilities for implementing the Station's Safety Case, demonstrating compliance and carrying out plant performance tasks including specifying reactor refuelling, monitoring safety margins, and providing reactor physics advice to the Operators.

Your role will be focused on Operational Reactor Physics, Safety Case development and implementation, working with Design Authority, Engineering and Operations staff to ensure safe operation of the reactors and fit-for-purpose safety cases are effectively implemented and compliance demonstrated.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary between £44,112 – £92,778 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. 

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing

Alongside reporting into the Nuclear Safety Group Head, you’ll take on responsibilities within two technical areas: Reactor Physics and Safety Case implementation.

The Reactor Physics area involves:

• Performing routine physics evaluations and predictions
• Preparing refuelling assessments for the reactors and development work on Reactor Physics codes and processes
• Providing advice to the Operations Department to assist in optimising Station performance within a sage operational envelope.

The Safety Case area will involve:

• Authoring and verifying updates to the Safety Case and assessing the Nuclear Safety aspects of plant modifications.
• Ownership of the station operating rules and ensuring compliance with the nuclear site license
• Providing advice on the safe operation of plant and safety systems

This is not a definitive list as the scope of work for the Nuclear Safety Group is expanding and will include the development of strategies for efficient use of fuel during the approach to the end of Generation phase for the plant and shaping of the Safety Cases to enable efficient defueling of the reactors.

The successful applicant would be expected to be involved in both technical areas to some degree following offsite training at EDF's Gloucester Business Park, on-site training in classroom and mentoring by experienced personnel.

Who you are

You will have either a HNC or Degree in a relevant scientific discipline such as Maths, Engineering, Science, Physics etc.

You’ll ideally come from within the Nuclear Industry or have experience with heavy plant systems and processes.

Closing date for applications: Sunday January 26th

Interviews to be held week commencing Monday February 3rd

Applicants will be required to obtain CTC level vetting prior to taking up their duties.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

Success is personal. It’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and we’ll help Britain achieve Net Zero, together.

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