An you describe a project where you authored or contributed to a design substantiation for a high-hazard system or facility?
What is your experience with Periodic Review of Safety (PRS)? and have you contributed to ensuring continued justification for safe operation of electrical systems over time?
How do you approach integrating safety considerations into electrical design work, especially when reviewing changes, concessions, or developing safety justifications in support of the overall design intent?
The Opportunity
The Design Authority plays a critical role in ensuring the design integrity and safety justification of critical infrastructure supporting nuclear operations. Due to this, our client is currently seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to join their team and become responsible for overseeing design compliance, operational safety, and technical substantiation to ensure all infrastructure and systems meet legislative, regulatory, and best practice standards.
The role
As an Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining nuclear infrastructure safety justifications and designs in line with applicable codes and standards.
This is a Contract role, based Inside IR35 that will require Remote with very occasional travel.
Your duties and responsibilities will be
* Ensuring continued suitability of operating conditions and safety systems throughout their lifecycle.
* Managing and authoring design changes, EIMT (Examination, Inspection, Maintenance & Testing) schedules, and performance reviews.
* Supporting change-of-use assessments, safety case updates, and periodic safety reviews.
* Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to maintain design integrity and alignment with safety and operational requirements.
* As an Electrical Design Engineer within a multi-disciplinary team, you will provide vital support to current operations and future infrastructure programmes.
* You will be responsible for authoring, assessing, and maintaining engineering design substantiation to ensure all infrastructure is compliant with safety and performance requirements.
* This role requires strong collaboration, technical rigor, and a focus on engineering assurance within a regulated, high-hazard environment.
* Develop and maintain engineering design substantiation documents and manage associated design changes and concessions.
* Present technical designs and safety justifications to nuclear safety committees and assurance panels.
* Produce and support Examination, Inspection, Maintenance & Testing (EIMT) schedules and related documentation aligned with the safety case.
* Deliver Periodic Review of Safety (PRS) reports and contribute to performance assessments.
* Provide expert electrical engineering advice to internal teams and external contractors.
* Conduct independent and peer technical reviews of design outputs and safety documentation.
* Apply established and emerging engineering methods across all phases of a system's lifecycle—from concept and design to operation and decommissioning.
* Justify design modifications with robust technical arguments, especially in high-hazard contexts.
* Review contractor submissions and provide clear technical feedback and approvals where appropriate.
You will have the following qualifications & experience
* Experienced Electrical Engineer with knowledge of industrial plant and machinery, particularly in HV (up to 11kV) generation, distribution, protection systems, and associated controls. Candidates with primarily LV experience and some HV exposure will also be considered.
* Knowledge of current British and European design standards and working practices.
* Demonstrated skill in concept and detailed design, construction, and commissioning stages across a range of electrical engineering projects (preferably in industrial or maritime settings).
* Experience in assessing electrical plant and equipment to ensure resilience against operational hazards.
* Proven ability to author technical justifications and design documentation in support of modifications in regulated, high-hazard environments.
* Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary teams and contributing electrical engineering expertise to broader project objectives.
It’s great if you also have the following
* Experience working in high-hazard environments or complex engineering facilities.
* Familiarity with safety case development techniques such as HAZID or HAZOP.
* Prior exposure to the UK nuclear industry (civil or defence), particularly in the design or assessment of safety-critical systems.
* Knowledge of UK and US nuclear regulatory standards and application of nuclear-specific engineering codes.
Get in touch now
If you’re seeking a new opportunity and think you have the skills and experience for this role, then apply now or contact Zoe Wilson via LinkedIn.
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