You’ll be joining a forward-thinking organisation that values transparency, fairness, and innovation. We offer:• A flexible, inclusive, and supportive working environment. • Opportunities for career growth in a rapidly scaling business. • A culture that values diversity, innovation, and continuous learning.We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Inclusivity is important to us, and as a Disability Confident organisation, we are committed to fair, supportive, and continually improving recruitment practices that ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive.Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.Also, if you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch – we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.**Our Application Process**Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in additional screening. These are:• Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance • Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check • Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check#LI-VS1#LI-Remote# **Physical Security Analyst****Location:** Derby, Manchester, Warrington or Home Working **Department:** Safety & Regulatory Affairs – Security## **Why we need you**We’re building a new generation of clean energy through our Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programme in the UK and Czechia — and we need you to make sure our designs are inherently secure.As our **Physical Security Analyst**, we need you to integrate physical security requirements into the SMR design, ensuring our approach aligns with regulatory expectations, the Design Basis Threat (DBT) and protective security principles.This isn’t a typical security role — it sits at the intersection of engineering, regulation, threat analysis and secure‐by‐design methodology. You’ll work with technical specialists across the organisation and represent RR SMR externally with clients, regulators and industry forums. **Critical to call out clearly:** this role involves *very high volumes of technical drafting*. You’ll be producing complex, detailed documents at pace, and must be comfortable working in an evolving, ambiguous design space.## **What you’ll be doing**We need you to:* Integrate physical security requirements into the SMR design, ensuring alignment with DBT and regulatory expectations.* Identify security needs and develop clear, evidence‐based claims, arguments and substantiation to support design decisions.* Deliver physical protection system (PPS) inputs across engineering, safety, security and assurance disciplines.* Conduct threat analysis, including adversarial pathway assessments and risk‐based judgement.* Produce high‐quality, detailed technical documentation and regulatory submissions — under tight timescales.* Engage directly with regulators, clients, and industry forums as a credible security representative for RR SMR.* Ensure appropriate protection and handling of classified and sensitive information.* Operate effectively despite ambiguity, evolving requirements and complex stakeholder landscapes.## **What you’ll bring**We’re looking for people who meet at least *75%* of the criteria below — if that’s you, we’d love to hear from you.### **Essential experience & skills*** Strong experience in physical security design or integration — ideally in CNI, government, defence, law enforcement or similar.* Knowledge of access control, surveillance, perimeter security, hostile vehicle mitigation and other protective technologies.* An ability to apply NPSA principles across Deter, Detect, Delay, Mitigate and Respond.* Strong analytical capability: assessing threats, interpreting complex data sets and evaluating adversarial pathways.* Ability to apply secure‐by‐design and graded‐approach principles to real‐world engineering scenarios.* **Outstanding drafting and technical writing skills** — able to produce clear, high‐quality documents at pace (non‐negotiable).* Confident communicator who can engage stakeholders at all levels, draw out key information, and work autonomously.* Comfortable delivering work in an evolving, sometimes unclear design environment.### **Desirable*** Security qualifications: CPP, PSP, CSMP or CSyP.* Experience working with regulators or regulated environments.* Knowledge of nuclear security (advantageous, not essential).* Czech or Swedish language skills (beneficial but not required).## ## **Security Clearance**This role requires **SC clearance**, but you **don’t need to have it on day one** — it just needs to be achieved during probation. We’ll discuss eligibility early to ensure a smooth process.## **Location & ways of working**You can be based at:* Derby* Manchester* Warrington* **OR at Home, This isn't a fully remote role as it will expect travel to our sites/ offices/ suppliers on an adhoc basis (10-20% travel)**We offer flexible and part‐time working options — talk to us about what you need.## **Pay & benefits*** **£42,000 – £55,150 salary*** **£2,200 benefit allowance*** **12.5% bonus opportunity*** **6x pensionable life assurance*** **50% income protection*** **28 days holiday + bank holidays*** **£250 new joiner payment**## **Inclusion matters**We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process and in the workplace.## **About Rolls‐Royce SMR**We’re designing a market‐driven, affordable, low‐carbon SMR to support the UK’s energy transition and help deliver energy independence for international partners. Our design is undergoing Step 3 of the Generic Design Assessment with the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and has been selected as the preferred SMR for the UK and Czechia.This is your opportunity to influence a once‐in‐a‐generation change in global energy security and the journey to net zero.## If this sounds like the role for you — even if you don’t meet every requirement — we’d love to hear from you.**We are Rolls-Royce SMR**A career with Rolls-Royce SMR offers a unique opportunity to contribute to an exciting organisation delivering a transformational mission. Rolls-Royce SMR is a radically different approach to proven nuclear technology. Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will generate 470MW of low-carbon energy - equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes for over 60 years. With its Rolls-Royce SMRs will play a vital role in supporting renewable energy by helping to overcome intermittency and ensure a stable, sustainable energy future. We’re proud to be one of the few employers that can genuinely say we’re a strengths-based organisation. Our people are here because of what makes them exceptional - and our role is to help them make the most meaningful contribution of their careers, doing work they love. We offer opportunities that go beyond traditional career paths. At Rolls-Royce SMR you can develop your career by exploring roles and challenges that align with your unique talents.**Our culture**At Rolls-Royce SMR, we are committed to ensuring that our teams reflect the communities we serve and that everyone can be themselves at work. We know that diverse teams are more innovative and get better results, and that our people can thrive and be more successful in truly inclusive cultures. Join us and help shape our culture. Find out more about our inclusion pledge. Rolls-Royce SMR is a place where everyone can grow, so whatever background you bring with you, please apply
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