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Safety Case Engineer (Sizewell C)

Job Category:  Health & Safety
Contract Partner Company:  Jobs Service
Employing Company:  Sizewell C

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Safety Case Engineer
Sizewell C


Location: Gloucester / London, (2 days in the office per week).   
Contract: Permanent, full-time. 
Closing Date: Tuesday 16th June 2026

 
What’s in It for You 


Salary: 56,000 - £66,500 per annum, depending on experience
Bonus: 5% annual incentive 
Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution 
Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays 
 

Your Impact


The Nuclear Safety Case Engineer is a key role within the Sizewell C Design Authority, reporting directly to the Safety Case Group Lead. This position offers the opportunity to play a central role in the development and delivery of the project’s nuclear safety case strategy.
 

You will lead the development of a range of complex nuclear safety cases, ensuring they are robust, compliant, and aligned with regulatory expectations. This includes ownership and coordination of SZC’s top-level safety case—currently the Pre-Construction Safety Report (PCSR)—as well as supporting the evolution toward the Pre-Commissioning Safety Report (PCmSR) in the next phase of the project.

 
Working collaboratively across engineering, design, and regulatory teams, you will ensure that safety arguments are clearly articulated, evidence-based, and integrated across all aspects of the plant design and lifecycle.
 

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions


• Own the safety case during the design, construction and commissioning phases, advising the regulator, internal stakeholders and the responsible designer on its adequacy.
• Lead PCSR and PCmSR section development, including strategy setting, team leadership, and progression through the safety case lifecycle (authoring, peer review, verification, regulatory review and approval).
• Act as an intelligent customer for the safety case by providing technical oversight across licensing, procurement, manufacture, construction, commissioning and operation phases of the station lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including internal teams, external partners and regulators.
• Maximise the benefits of replication from Hinkley Point C to Sizewell C.
 

Knowledge and Skills


We welcome applicants with safety case experience and a wide range of underlying technical backgrounds. We are committed to developing our people and offer comprehensive training and development programmes.


• Knowledge of safety analyses, design and engineering substantiation, ALARP and/or fault studies
• Ability to identify issues and develop solutions in the context of nuclear plant construction, commissioning and operation
• Ability to interpret complex information, set clear action plans, and lead the strategic planning of the safety case
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
 

Qualifications & Experience


• Ideally Degree or equivalent in engineering, science, or mathematics
• Experience in the nuclear or other highly regulated industries, managing complex systems’ safety documentation for regulatory compliance and approval
 

Desirable
 

• Civil engineering background would be advantageous, ideally with experience of major infrastructure or nuclear construction projects.
 

Behavioural Competences
 

Humility

Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.
 

Positivity

Positively challenge poor quality and performance.
Identify solutions at the lowest possible level.
Encourage others to bring new ideas forward.
 

Respect

Value the rules and environment in which we operate.
Give and receive feedback with respect.
Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.
 

Solidarity

One team, working closely together and helping each other.
Empowered teams always looking forward.
Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes.
 

Clarity

Communicate clearly and consistently.
Promote collaboration and team alignment.
Clearer and faster decision making.
Drive simplification at all levels.

 

 

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The Sizewell C Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.#SZCJobs

 

 

Safety Case Engineer
Sizewell C


Location: Gloucester / London, (2 days in the office per week).   
Contract: Permanent, full-time. 
Closing Date: Tuesday 16th June 2026

 
What’s in It for You 


Salary: 56,000 - £66,500 per annum, depending on experience
Bonus: 5% annual incentive 
Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution 
Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays 
 

Your Impact


The Nuclear Safety Case Engineer is a key role within the Sizewell C Design Authority, reporting directly to the Safety Case Group Lead. This position offers the opportunity to play a central role in the development and delivery of the project’s nuclear safety case strategy.
 

You will lead the development of a range of complex nuclear safety cases, ensuring they are robust, compliant, and aligned with regulatory expectations. This includes ownership and coordination of SZC’s top-level safety case—currently the Pre-Construction Safety Report (PCSR)—as well as supporting the evolution toward the Pre-Commissioning Safety Report (PCmSR) in the next phase of the project.

 
Working collaboratively across engineering, design, and regulatory teams, you will ensure that safety arguments are clearly articulated, evidence-based, and integrated across all aspects of the plant design and lifecycle.
 

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions


• Own the safety case during the design, construction and commissioning phases, advising the regulator, internal stakeholders and the responsible designer on its adequacy.
• Lead PCSR and PCmSR section development, including strategy setting, team leadership, and progression through the safety case lifecycle (authoring, peer review, verification, regulatory review and approval).
• Act as an intelligent customer for the safety case by providing technical oversight across licensing, procurement, manufacture, construction, commissioning and operation phases of the station lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including internal teams, external partners and regulators.
• Maximise the benefits of replication from Hinkley Point C to Sizewell C.
 

Knowledge and Skills


We welcome applicants with safety case experience and a wide range of underlying technical backgrounds. We are committed to developing our people and offer comprehensive training and development programmes.


• Knowledge of safety analyses, design and engineering substantiation, ALARP and/or fault studies
• Ability to identify issues and develop solutions in the context of nuclear plant construction, commissioning and operation
• Ability to interpret complex information, set clear action plans, and lead the strategic planning of the safety case
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
 

Qualifications & Experience


• Ideally Degree or equivalent in engineering, science, or mathematics
• Experience in the nuclear or other highly regulated industries, managing complex systems’ safety documentation for regulatory compliance and approval
 

Desirable
 

• Civil engineering background would be advantageous, ideally with experience of major infrastructure or nuclear construction projects.
 

Behavioural Competences
 

Humility

Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.
 

Positivity

Positively challenge poor quality and performance.
Identify solutions at the lowest possible level.
Encourage others to bring new ideas forward.
 

Respect

Value the rules and environment in which we operate.
Give and receive feedback with respect.
Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.
 

Solidarity

One team, working closely together and helping each other.
Empowered teams always looking forward.
Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes.
 

Clarity

Communicate clearly and consistently.
Promote collaboration and team alignment.
Clearer and faster decision making.
Drive simplification at all levels.

 

 

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.

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