Job Description

Overview

Do you take pride in ensuring the highest standards of nuclear safety and delivering robust solutions to technical challenges? Join us as a Senior or Principal Nuclear Safety Engineer, where you will play a vital role in identifying, analysing, and mitigating nuclear risks.

Your role

Leading teams producing nuclear safety cases, including identification, characterisation, assessment, authoring, and review.
Working with clients across nuclear generation, nuclear new build, defence, fusion, and SMR sectors.
Supporting critical decision-making for the design, commissioning, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and assets.
Influencing client strategy and supporting nuclear site licence applications.
Building a business pipeline and delivering technical presentations to clients and regulators.
Leading technical delivery to solve complex safety-critical problems, and present solutions to stakeholders.
Taking ownership of your technical and professional development through the breadth of our nuclear safety portfolio.
Competitive salary: £50,000+ per annum plus additional pay in line with our performance philosophy and recognition culture.

About you

You will be able to demonstrate a background of compliance with regulatory expectations, where you have enabled the safe design, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and contributing to a secure, low‑carbon energy future for the UK. You will have provided technical leadership for the delivery of nuclear safety cases across nuclear and defence programmes, taking accountability for complex, safety‑critical work. Mentorship of engineers and contributing to building capabilities and best practice across AtkinsRealis is also critical to the success of this role, and you will need to demonstrate experience of developing more junior members of staff. You will also be excited by the bigger picture, without losing the attention to detail required for success in such a critical role.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.