Are you a Safety Case Engineer who wants your work to matter? At our historic Chapelcross site, safety case is not a back office activity, it is the engine that enables every single decommissioning and retrieval operation.
This is a rare opportunity to apply your expertise where it genuinely shapes outcomes. With major waste retrieval facilities already operating, others approaching completion and new projects starting on site, safety case is central to unlocking progress.
If you want to work in a technically rich, highly collaborative environment where your judgment and professional credibility are visible and respected, this role offers exactly that.
What you will be doing
As a Safety Case Engineer, you will sit at the heart of decommissioning delivery, contributing to and leading, depending on your experience, the safety justification that enables retrieval, dismantling and waste management to proceed safely and confidently. Your work will directly support a nationally significant clean-up programme, ensuring operations remain compliant, robust and aligned with modern nuclear safety expectations.
You will be a trusted technical authority, or developing into one, working closely with engineers, operators and regulators to turn complex hazards into clear, proportionate and defensible safety arguments. This is a visible, on site role where your judgement influences real decisions and real progress, not just paperwork.
In this role, you will:
- Lead or support the development, maintenance and evolution of nuclear safety cases, including the site Reference Safety Case
- Support modifications by ensuring safety limits, conditions and controls are clearly defined and implemented
- Advise, coach and engage colleagues and stakeholders with confidence, including regulatory interfaces
- Operate close to the work, assuring activities remain within the bounds of the safety case
What will you bring
You’ll bring a solid technical foundation and a clear understanding of how safety cases support safe, effective nuclear operations, ideally within a decommissioning environment, though we welcome experience from other regulated, high hazard industries.
You must hold a degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant technical subject.
You are someone who:
- Enjoys solving complex problems and thinking ahead
- Can distil complexity into structured, convincing safety arguments
- Writes technical documentation fluently, for easy reading
- Is confident engaging with a wide range of stakeholders
- Sees safety case not as a constraint, but as an enabler of good engineering
Whether you are early in your safety case career or bring many years of experience, we would be interested in having a conversation with you.
We actively encourage applications from those who are still developing their safety case experience. If you don’t meet every requirement, we may offer a development role aligned to the lower end of the role’s salary range, supported by a structured Personal Development Plan with a clear pathway into the full role.
If you want your safety case expertise to enable real progress and leave a lasting legacy, this is the role for you. Work where safety case is genuinely valued and directly enables delivery, combining technically challenging work with real world impact on a major UK programme.
With a four day working week (Monday to Thursday), supporting real work life balance, why wouldn’t you apply? #RED
To learn more about NRS and the work we do, we invite you to explore our organisation by visiting Nuclear Restoration Services - GOV.UK. It’s a great way to discover our mission, our people, and the impact we deliver
Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the stated deadline should we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible
