Frazer Nash
Nuclear Safety Engineer
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Nuclear Safety Engineer
Job Title: Nuclear Safety Engineer
Salary range: £45,000 to £60,000 per annum
Location: Bristol, Burton or Manchester
Working Pattern: We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home.
Closing date: 7th August 2026
We encourage early applications, as vacancies may close once we receive sufficient applications.
At Frazer-Nash, we deliver innovative engineering and regulatory solutions that help ensure nuclear technologies are safe, secure, and ready to support a sustainable future. We support clients in all parts of the UK civil and defence nuclear industry, as well as a wide range of non-reactor, and experimental or demonstrator facilities. We provide technical support to our clients on engineering projects for the design, construction, operation, maintenance, defueling, and decommissioning of their nuclear facilities.
We are seeking skilled Nuclear Engineers to support a diverse portfolio of projects across the nuclear industry, a changing and rapidly evolving sector that plays a key role in the UK’s energy future.
Role Purpose
This role will see you undertaking and managing a range of projects, working with other consultants, and contributing to the delivery of contracts to our customers across a range of clients within the nuclear sector.
The types of tasks you could be responsible for include:
- Nuclear Safety Engineer
- Undertake technical tasks such as safety assessment, risk assessment, hazard identification, hazard analysis, safety functional requirements.
- Internal and external hazards assessments.
- Authoring or reviewing/verifying safety related documents.
- Engineering substantiation of systems, structures and components against safety requirements.
- Safety case development and support for nuclear plant.
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Person Specification
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, or a related technical discipline.
- Typically, 3+ years of experience in the nuclear industry.
- Chartered Member of an Engineering Institution e.g. (IMechE, IET) or working towards professional registration.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Willingness to handle shifting requirements and manage your own workload
- A motivation to continually learn, improve and stretch yourself
- A willingness to travel and spend time on client sites.
- Experience delivering projects for UK nuclear licensees.
- Familiarity with the UK regulatory regime for nuclear licenced sites.
- Eligible for UK Security Clearance.
Desirable Qualifications & Experience:
- Familiarity with nuclear safety principles and regulatory context
- Experience in the development and management of nuclear safety cases
- Experience of nuclear safety case sub-disciplines such as radiological consequence assessment, probabilistic safety assessment, internal hazards assessment, external hazards assessment, fault studies.
- Familiarity and proficiency in process safety tools including HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, QRA.
- Experience developing the substantiation of nuclear structures, systems and components.
- Familiarity with ALARP principles and safety justification methodologies.
- Technical consultancy experience.
- Project management experience.
Working at Frazer-Nash
One of our core values at Frazer-Nash is that we value our people. We help them to find work that they enjoy and that allows them to continuously grow and develop, whilst maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Where possible we encourage cross-sector and cross-discipline working to allow skill sets to be transferred and to encourage sharing of best practice from different sectors.
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We empower experienced leaders to broaden their impact — whether that’s shaping strategic direction, leading high-value client programmes, or supporting the growth of emerging sectors. We offer the freedom to shape your career in the direction that excites you most: deepening your standing as a recognised technical authority, leading and developing effective teams, or accelerating business growth through sector leadership. You’ll have the opportunity to make meaningful decisions, backed by a supportive environment that enables you to thrive.
Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.
BENEFITS
We provide our people with an excellent benefit and offering package that comprises:
- Competitive salary with yearly reviews
- 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.
- A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.
- Happy to talk flexible working
- Enhanced parental benefits
- Company pension scheme
- Targeted professional development
- Life assurance
- Private healthcare membership
- Bonus scheme linked into company performance
- Paid membership fees to a professional institution
- Support in attaining professional membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season rail ticket loan
- And further optional benefits you can tailor to your personal requirements
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