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Principal electrical safety engineer

Culham
Safety engineer
Posted: 23 April
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Job Description The salary for this role is £71,815 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 5 days each week, however, we support requests for flexible working. This role is based at the following site: Culham, Oxfordshire This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data. The Role The Electrical Safety Group leads electrical safety management and engineering across UKAEA, ensuring compliance with legislation and supporting continuous improvement. This role acts as a senior subject matter expert in electrical, machinery, and functional safety, providing technical authority and consultancy to projects, programmes, and the Office of the Chief Engineer. It includes advising on designs, technical solutions, and critical operational safety issues, while supporting the Lead SAP(E) in delivering safety management in line with UKAEA procedures. You will undertake Senior Authorised Person Electrical (ToR004) duties following development and competency assessment, while acting as a subject matter expert advising major projects on electrical safety across the full lifecycle from design to decommissioning. Are you interested in advising projects and programmes on the consistent application of UKAEA engineering processes and standards, and contributing as a subject matter expert in technical reviews and formal investigations? If so, we would like to hear from you. Key Accountabilities: Contribute to the authoring of electrical safety strategies, policies and standards. Support the Lead SAP(E) in the delivery and monitoring of UKAEA’s electrical safety management plan, contributing effectively to the organisational standards related to electrical safety. Lead in the delivery of electrical safety continuous improvement plans. Identify improvements and be proactive to see them implemented. Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders, support development of consultancy services and input into work forecasting. Refer upwards to management where consultancy work highlights significant risk to UKAEA operations. Conduct incident investigations, determine root cause, and develop corrective actions and provide services to the Office of the Chief Engineer as a technical authority for electrical safety and related engineering aspects.

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