Safety Assessment Specialist

Berkshire
Full time
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AWE
Defence & emergency
5,001-10,000 employees
65 jobs
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Safety Case Specialist

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: £35,720 - £53,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

As a Safety Case Specialist, you will provide subject matter expertise in the assessment of nuclear, explosive, and other major hazards associated with actual, planned and/or decommissioned facilities, plant, equipment, or product.

Who are we looking for?

Ideally you will have Degree in a science or engineering based subject or vocational qualification (HND or equivalent) and demonstrable experience of working on multi-disciplined projects.

We do need you to have the following:

  • Degree in a science or engineering based subject or vocational qualification (HND or equivalent) and/or extensive practical experience.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

  • Demonstrable experience of working on multi-disciplined projects and be familiar with one or more of the following areas:
  • Production of safety assessments and other technical inputs to safety documentation/ justification
  • Provision of technical input to the production of company policy, guidance and strategy to agreed delivery and quality standards.
  • Provision of technical analyses in support of safety assessments, to agreed delivery and quality standards.
  • Worked or operated in a high hazard and/or highly regulated industry.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

  • 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
  • Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
  • Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
  • Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
  • Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
  • Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
  • Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
  • Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Important things you need to know:

  • You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
  • We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
  • Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process

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