Overview

Job Title: Principal Nuclear Safety Engineer – Specialists
Location: Barrow-in-Furness
Hybrid and flexible working arrangements available – speak to your recruiter about options.
Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing

We’re expanding our Nuclear Safety and Regulation Team to support the delivery of major programmes of strategic and international importance. We’re looking for people with experience in one or more of the following activities:

• Advising leaders at all levels on nuclear legislation, site license applications, and regulatory requirements
• Supporting relationships with regulatory bodies and deploying interface management arrangements
• Delivery of nuclear safety governance, assurance frameworks, and independent oversight capabilities
• Development and maintenance of the nuclear baseline together with organizational change processes
• Supporting the design and delivery of nuclear competence assessments and training solutions
• Implementing compliance operating models for nuclear/radiological safety and development of compliant nuclear management arrangements
• Preparing and maintaining nuclear safety documentation, including safety cases and associated processes
• Supporting end-users with safety case requirements
• Providing radiological protection advice
• Promoting a strong nuclear safety culture through stewardship and leadership concepts

Your skills and experiences

• Nuclear safety legislation, licensing, and regulatory frameworks
• Goal-setting regulation and application of relevant good practice (RGP)
• Safety policy, governance, and independent challenge mechanisms
• Regulatory interface management and permissioning arrangements
• Integrated management systems and compliance assurance
• Event reporting and operational experience feedback (OEFL) systems
• Development of nuclear capabilities, baselines, and organizational change management
• Competency-based training frameworks using Systematic Approach to Training (SAT)
• Safety case development methodologies and safety case implementation
• Radiological protection, waste management

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans and an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Nuclear Safety Regulation team

The Nuclear Safety and Regulation Department oversees the nuclear regulation for site. The team provides specialist advice and services regarding nuclear/radiological safety standards and compliance, development of safety cases, and maintenance of the licence to operate. The role provides leadership, oversight and management of a team of nuclear safety specialist roles to deliver defined work packages and provide essential nuclear safety support to major programmes of work of strategic and international importance.

Additional information

We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to eligibility criteria. Close date: 30 September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Therefore, please apply as early as possible.

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