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Job Title: Senior Safety Case Engineer
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71410
Shape Safety, Win Work, and Influence the Future of the UK’s Nuclear Landscape
About Us
At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Safety Case Engineer within our Business Winning team at one of our main sites: Warrington (Cheshire), Preston (Lancashire), Leicester (Leicestershire), Newbury (Berkshire), or Bristol.
As part of our Business Winning team, you’ll play a central role in developing the safety case solutions that help us secure the major clean-energy, nuclear-defence and decommissioning programmes that support the UK’s long-term resilience. You’ll shape innovative approaches, influence high-value bids, and guide technical excellence from the earliest stages of project development.
The Role
As a Senior Safety Case Engineer within our Business Winning, you’ll bring your deep safety case knowledge to the early phases of project development.
This is a full-time role based at one of our main sites: Warrington (Cheshire), Preston (Lancashire), Leicester (Leicestershire), Newbury (Berkshire), or Bristol with travel to other Cavendish Nuclear and customer locations as required. Hybrid working arrangements are available.
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Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Lead safety-case contributions to major bids.
- Develop safety case scopes, schedules, and verification plans.
- Produce and review safety case documentation and technical reports.
- Support hazard identification and risk assessment processes.
- Promote collaboration and continuous improvement.
Essential experience for the Senior Safety Case Engineer:
- Proven experience within a highly regulated environment.
- Experience contributing to safety case documentation.
- Understanding of ALARP principles and ONR Safety Assessment Principles.
- Ability to prepare technical analyses and safety submissions.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Qualifications of the Senior Safety Case Engineer:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant science or engineering discipline.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading scheme
- ‘Be Kind Day’ volunteering leave
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment
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Cavendish Nuclear
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
Join us and discover how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing Date: 07/10/2026
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