Job Title: Nuclear Safety Lead
Location: Remote, UK
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the future of clean energy at the forefront of nuclear innovation
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 Nuclear Safety Lead at the centre of this momentum and build your career across the nuclear and defence sector.
The role
We’re seeking a Nuclear 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. Providing technical leadership across nuclear safety engineering, ensuring high‑quality, compliant and assured engineering outputs
2. Leading and overseeing assurance activities, including review, verification and approval of safety cases, analyses and technical documentation
3. Managing and developing multidisciplinary teams, promoting collaboration, capability growth and engineering best practice
4. Engaging with customers and regulators, building strong relationships and providing clear technical leadership through delivery challenges
5. Supporting business development, contributing to bids, tenders and future programme shaping
Essential experience of the Nuclear Safety Lead:
6. Proven experience leading nuclear safety engineering assurance within a highly regulated environment
7. Demonstrable experience authoring and approving nuclear safety cases
8. Strong background in technical leadership across complex engineering programmes
9. Experience working with regulatory and licensing processes, including safety submissions
10. Capability to manage engineering delivery from concept through to full project lifecycle
Qualifications for the Nuclear Safety Lead:
11. Engineering degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
12. Chartered Engineer status or demonstrable capability to achieve registration
13. Membership of a relevant professional engineering institution is advantageous
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
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. 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.
22. ‘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
23. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish
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