Technical Authority Engineer

Technical Authority Engineer

Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater. Minimum 2-3 Days on Site at HPC with flexibility working from home or other office/location. 

Are you confident in developing and delivering safety justifications for complex engineering challenges while maintaining design integrity? Are you experienced in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to resolve emergent technical issues in a high-pressure project environment? Are you able to effectively communicate technical decisions and justifications to both internal stakeholders and external regulators?

If this all sounds like the role for you, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as our next Technical Authority Engineer here at Hinkley Point C!

The Opportunity

As our next Technical Authority Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing and delivering safety cases that resolve emergent design challenges on-site. As a key member of the Technical Authority team, an extension of the HPC Design Authority, you’ll help drive critical site work within the Joint Design Office (JDO)—ensuring the safety case remains robust while supporting project delivery.

This position offers exposure to a diverse range of topics across the project, giving you the opportunity to tackle complex problems, develop innovative solutions, and make a tangible impact on the safety and success of HPC.

Pay, benefits and culture

In addition to a salary of £54,000 depending on experience, we offer flexible benefits that support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Examples include: a market-leading company pension scheme, a bonus plan, health cover, electric vehicle leasing, mental health support and employee discounts.

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

In this role, you’ll take ownership of developing safety justifications for emerging transverse works issues at HPC, primarily across Mechanical and Electrical engineering disciplines, including HVAC and Civil engineering. While current site activities are heavily Civil-focused, the project is transitioning toward Mechanical, Electrical, and HVAC challenges, with increasing safety case implications as it progresses. Additional roles and responsibilities include: 

• Report to the Technical Authority Manager while maintaining strong connections with the Design Authority.
• Develop and produce safety justifications for Category 2 Non-Conformance issues and design changes on-site at HPC.
• Ensure NNB fulfills its responsibilities as a licensee, supporting the Design Authority in delivering design assurance and maintaining design integrity.
• Facilitate effective collaboration with the Responsible Designer, construction teams, and other key project stakeholders.
• Represent the project in internal and external regulatory meetings as needed.
• Deliver training and technical guidance to the wider JDO team, ensuring a strong understanding of the HPC safety case and modification categorisation.
• Support governance activities, ensuring safety case standards are consistently upheld across the project.
• Contribute to the development of safety case capability, strengthening expertise and awareness across the HPC site.

Who you are

To succeed in this role, you’ll need strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders across the business. You should be adaptable, resilient, and eager to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment. Additional requirements include:

• Thrive in high-profile, dynamic, and time-critical projects, confidently identifying and resolving key issues while maintaining a strong technical position in challenging environments.
• Have the ability to analyse complex technical information, develop pragmatic solutions, challenge existing strategies, and present technical knowledge in a clear and concise manner.
• Be highly organised and motivated, able to collaborate effectively with various disciplines across the organisation.
• Take a pragmatic and practical approach to problem-solving and solution development.
• Have a working knowledge of nuclear safety cases and how they are developed.

Applications for this role close: Sunday 27th April 

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