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Risktec Solutions Ltd is an established, independent engineering and risk management consultancy. We help clients to manage health, safety, security, environmental (HSSE) and business risk in sectors where the impact of loss is high. Our people are high calibre and motivated professionals, with a clear focus on meeting clients’ expectations.

We are seeking highly motivated and dynamic individuals with experience of supporting nuclear safety within the nuclear power generation sector. The successful candidates will work on the delivery of major projects within the nuclear industry and be based within our Warrington team.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of major safety cases, including authoring, verification and management of engineering change documentation.
• Providing specialist technical input and advice to resolve complex problems.

• Production of formal technical reports, safety cases and other project deliverables on time and to budget.

• A drive to ensure successful delivery and continuous client satisfaction by delivering pragmatic and proportionate solutions.

• Building up and maintaining client relationships.

• Management of projects, including:
• Responding to client requests for support
• Accurately costing project tasks
• Managing resources to ensure project delivery within budget

Key requirements:

• Experience in delivering and/or supporting nuclear safety cases is essential.
• Previous experience working with EDF is desirable, e.g. EDF AV3 or AV2 qualification (or equivalent).
• Strong analytical and logical skills are essential.
• Clear communication skills are essential, both verbal and written, and strong organisational skills and attention to detail are critical.
• This opportunity has high visibility and profile so we require an enthusiastic, confident individual who we would be proud to represent Risktec in front of our clients.
• Able to work as part of a team, as well as to work independently where needed.
• Able to travel within the UK.

Their offer
A competitive package of salary and benefits is offered for permanent staff, including:

• Car allowance (dependent on grade).
• Profit share.
• Company pension contributions.
• Flexible and hybrid working.
• Private medical insurance.
• Health and wellbeing – digital GP, access to wellbeing app and support.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
• Sustainable benefits such as salary sacrifice electric vehicles and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Training and development:
• Access to certified CPD courses and a university postgraduate education programme, delivered in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, including the opportunity to enrol on the MSc in Risk and Safety Management.
• Support to individuals working towards Chartership including company mentor scheme and institution fees reimbursed.

Additional Information:

Due to the nature of the work, the candidates must have a suitable background that will allow them to achieve UK security clearance (please note that this is very difficult to achieve within the timescales for non-UK nationals and you will be subject to a screening process before interview to ensure that you meet the security clearance criteria).

Bring your skills to a world-class regulator

The challenge

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is an evolving public corporation. Essentially, we’re responsible for regulating nuclear site health and safety, nuclear safety, security, safeguards and the transport of radioactive materials. As a Nuclear Protective Security Inspector, you’ll be at the heart of our work, keeping the industry safe for the rest of the world. Find your purpose – join us at ONR.

The role

In this exciting and responsible role, you’ll regulate security across the civil nuclear industry, ensuring duty holders comply with legislation and that operations are safe and secure. It means you could be assessing security plans in the office one day and visiting duty holders the next. With all aspects of physical security, personnel security and nuclear transport security to cover, you’ll have a wide-ranging role.

As you’ll be dealing with a variety of people, within and outside ONR, it’s important that you can engage with others in a collaborative way. You’ll meet senior stakeholders, duty holders and ONR colleagues, so you need to be a natural people-person who can give presentations, explain technical matters, write reports and communicate well.   

The person
This is an opportunity to lead and shape our society’s future use of nuclear technology, so you need to be qualified. We’re looking for a good honours degree, an accredited Level 6 qualification or equivalent in a security subject appropriate to the role. You should also be a member of a relevant professional institution (e.g. the Security Institute), or have equivalent experience. Whatever your credentials, you’ll need to have worked in a high-hazard industry.

Although we’ll give you training to bring you up to speed, you must be a highly experienced protective security practitioner already, with good knowledge of risk management. With this background, you’ll be an expert in two of the following areas: personnel security, policing and guarding, or emergency preparedness and response. Crucially, you’ll have an eye for detail – so you’ll read the job description thoroughly. Add your ability to work independently or as part of a team, and you could be the person we’re looking for. If you thrive in fast-paced, supportive environments, this could be the role for you.

The rewards

We offer competitive salaries at the ONR, with this role attracting a salary of £68,954 - £79,219 (plus £4,052 London Weighting Allowance if applicable). Furthermore, you’ll be eligible for a substantial Civil Service Pension scheme (including ill-health retirement and lump sum family benefits), and generous holiday entitlement.

About us

ONR is a Public Corporation with a mission to protect society by securing safe nuclear operations. Our staff are drawn from a wide range of professional backgrounds with specialist inspectors to deliver our core business including civil engineering, radiological protection, human factors, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and nuclear physics. Together they’re involved in everything from assessing safety documentation, inspecting nuclear sites and communicating our decisions, to training new recruits and representing the UK and ONR nationally and internationally.