Graduate Nuclear Safety Assessor - Warrington

 Key info

• Location: Warrington
• Anticipated start: Immediate

Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our award-winning Nuclear Safety team delivering sustainable projects for our communities, planet and society. 

Hydrock 3T is a nuclear safety consultancy providing safety case and assessment advice to support our clients in achieving site licensing from UK and/or international regulators.

We have a number of varied and interesting projects ongoing and are looking to recruit recent graduates to join our team as Nuclear Safety Assessors.   

What will your role involve? 

A Nuclear Safety Assessor will typically work as part of a project team to identify the initiating failures that lead to major hazards.

These are subsequently analysed to determine their consequences and the appropriate level of preventative or mitigatory controls required.

This information will be captured in the Safety Assessment documentation to demonstrate that the risks associated with an operation adhere to corporate and regulatory requirements. 

 To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

• A relevant BSc/ BEng/ MSc/ MEng or equivalent (a master's in mechanical, chemical, aeronautical engineering or physics)
• A passion and talent for Nuclear Safety
• To be confident, outgoing and someone who enjoys being part of a busy team
• Experience of working in the nuclear industry – particularly safety case development – is desirable, but not essential.
• To be an articulate communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
• To be a self-starter who is tenacious in concluding tasks
• To be driven, ambitious and enjoy change and variety
• To buy into Hydrock’s values and ethos

What's great about Hydrock 'in a nutshell'

We are a British-owned integrated multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘force for good’, as it is our aim to positive contribute to people’s lives including our employees, communities we work in, clients we work with and our planet as a whole. 

From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of.

Our welcoming and friendly culture is something we are proud of and has gained us recognition with 9 years in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list.  Check out some of our incredible projects which have been awarded: 2022 Net Zero Award for Bay Technology Centre, Integration and Collaborative Working Award for YGG Tan-y-Lan primary school, The Deaf Academy awarded for its Universal Design at the 2022 Civic Trust Awards and Bristol’s iconic waterfront Wapping Wharf Living making a double win at the Bristol Property Awards!

To top off, here’s our 2022 wrap up video!

What we can offer

• Inspiring and supportive colleagues
• Reward for progression and hard work
• An opportunity to develop your soft skills on “The Learning Curve” program
• Competitive starting salary
• Excellent health benefits
• 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days)
• An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!)
• An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday)
• A huge range of flexible benefits
• Our biggest event of the year: Annual Challenge Day!

A place to feel included

We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim! 

We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the protected characteristics. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.

Looking for the next steps?

• Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we will be in touch with you as soon as we’ve considered your application alongside others for this role.
• Typically, this can take several weeks so if you haven't heard back from us, not to worry, your application is still actively being considered!
• With the high volume of applications, we are unable to provide ad hoc updates on the progress of applications. However, we will contact you when decisions have been made

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