Job Title: Modular Reactor Safety Lead
Location: Remote, UK
Compensation Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead Safety at The Forefront of The UK’s Next Generation Of Nuclear Technology
The UK’s small and advanced modular reactor sector is entering a pivotal phase, with major programmes progressing and strong government backing.
Join us as a Modular Reactor Safety Lead at the centre of this momentum and build your career across the nuclear and defence sector.
The role
We’re seeking a Modular Reactor Safety Lead to join our Advanced Nuclear Technologies team, working in a fast‑moving, innovation‑led environment with real national impact. You’ll help shape the next generation of nuclear power through cutting‑edge design, accelerated deployment and projects that strengthen the UK’s long‑term energy resilience. If you want your work to matter at scale, this is the role for you.
The role is full time, working 37 hours per week, and can be undertaken remotely with occasional travel to Cavendish Nuclear and customer sites in the north‑west of England.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Leading safety engineering assurance activities, ensuring technical rigour, compliance, and alignment with organisational and regulatory standards
2. Reviewing and approving safety engineering deliverables, ensuring appropriate verification, validation, and governance controls are applied
3. Managing technical safety inputs to ensure engineering solutions meet agreed scope, quality, and programme requirements
4. Producing and assuring calculations, analyses, technical reports, specifications, and method statements
5. Building and maintaining effective customer relationships, supporting issue resolution, progress reporting, and future business development
Essential experience of the Modular Reactor Safety Lead:
6. Chartered Engineer status with significant experience in a relevant engineering discipline
7. Proven experience leading safety engineering activities within a highly regulated industry
8. Strong background in safety assurance, technical governance, and regulatory compliance
9. Demonstrable experience operating in client‑facing roles with complex stakeholder interfaces
10. Ability to provide authoritative technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams
Qualifications for the Modular Reactor Safety Lead:
11. Degree, or equivalent qualification, in a relevant engineering discipline
12. Chartered Engineer status (essential)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee share scheme
17. Employee shopping savings portal
18. Payment of Professional Fees
19. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
20. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
21. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
22. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish
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