EDF (UK)
Station Architect Engineer (Safety Case)
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About The Role
The Opportunity
We are currently seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Station Architect Engineer (SAE) to join the Project Delivery organisation at Heysham 1. The SAE provides governance and oversight to the technical requirements and ensures value solutions are in place for the Stations Projects/Programme Portfolio.
This is a technical leadership role working closely with stakeholders, throughout the business, to ensure alignment of design requirements with a focus on engineering and safety case requirements across the investment portfolio.
Pay, Benefits And Culture
The salary range offered with this role is between £64,261 to £99,929 with terms and conditions covered by the EDF Company Agreement and will be dependent on your existing salary, competence, experiences, and qualifications.
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.
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What You Will Be Doing
In this role you will ensure early engagement with significant programmes and projects and uses their influence to shape and set the direction of the project in a collaborative manner with the parties involved.
In addition to this:
- Ensuring the real problem is identified, understood and recorded.
- Forming the engineering and safety case teams by engaging and communicating with Central Technical Organisation Group Heads and Project Support Officers to ensure appropriate technical resources are assigned to the project.
- Proactively initiating the design control process; identifying and mitigating risks throughout the full lifecycle of the project/programme
- Ensuring that delivery of value through the technical lifecycle is a key focus.
- Demonstrating strong commercial awareness of the financial implications of the solutions identified
- Building effective relationships with key stakeholders and project team members with the ability to influence and direct the people resources to deliver the required outcomes with speed.
- Set the technical delivery strategy for the scheme including how it interfaces with other company processes.
- Ensuring CDM 2015 requirements are understood and incorporated within design activities.
Who You Are
As a minimum, you will be educated to HNC (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, holding a relevant Degree is desirable and Chartered Engineer status, or equivalent, would be an advantage.
Relevant project experience within engineering/construction projects would be preferable, alongside a good working knowledge of Safety Case Management roles and responsibilities.
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You should be able to demonstrate experience and understanding of Health and Safety legislation including CDM regulations and the actions required to achieve compliance.
You will be an outcome focused problem solver with an ability to utilise information and take accountability for driving solutions.
You will need to be a clear communicator; working with various teams to lead and gain group consensus on how to move a project forward.
This will require confidence, and a positive approach to complex situations; to achieve the best outcome for the project and EDF. This emotional intelligence and experience will enable you to prioritise nuclear safety culture and also recognise that speed of delivery is good for nuclear safety. This requires SAE’s to make/influence others to make judgements to enable fast decision making.
An understanding of the needs of quality and how quality is assured and controlled, including project configuration management and document control is essential.
You should have good leadership skills and be a strong influencer, with good interpersonal skills and a track record of delivering results.
You’ll need to be a strong conflict manager with firm and assertive approach, alongside the enthusiasm and appetite to be a proactive team player. The flexibility to work within your own range of competencies to deliver departmental targets/improvement areas is also paramount
Closing date for applications is Tuesday August 4th, and interviews will take place on August 10, 11 & 12th.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.
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