Principal Electrical Safety Engineer
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £71,815 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance).
Onsite working is expected for 5 days each week, however, we support requests for flexible working.
This role is based at the following site: Culham, Oxfordshire
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
The Electrical Safety Group leads electrical safety management and engineering across UKAEA, ensuring compliance with legislation and supporting continuous improvement.
This role acts as a senior subject matter expert in electrical, machinery, and functional safety, providing technical authority and consultancy to projects, programmes, and the Office of the Chief Engineer. It includes advising on designs, technical solutions, and critical operational safety issues, while supporting the Lead SAP(E) in delivering safety management in line with UKAEA procedures.
You will undertake Senior Authorised Person Electrical (ToR004) duties following development and competency assessment, while acting as a subject matter expert advising major projects on electrical safety across the full lifecycle from design to decommissioning.
Are you interested in advising projects and programmes on the consistent application of UKAEA engineering processes and standards, and contributing as a subject matter expert in technical reviews and formal investigations? If so, we would like to hear from you.
Key Accountabilities:
- Contribute to the authoring of electrical safety strategies, policies and standards.
- Support the Lead SAP(E) in the delivery and monitoring of UKAEA’s electrical safety management plan, contributing effectively to the organisational standards related to electrical safety.
- Lead in the delivery of electrical safety continuous improvement plans. Identify improvements and be proactive to see them implemented.
- Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders, support development of consultancy services and input into work forecasting.
- Refer upwards to management where consultancy work highlights significant risk to UKAEA operations.
- Conduct incident investigations, determine root cause, and develop corrective actions and provide services to the Office of the Chief Engineer as a technical authority for electrical safety and related engineering aspects.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Honours degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline, or equivalent level of qualification supported by extensive experience and knowledge
- Significant, demonstrable experience working with industrial electrical power systems
- Extensive experience of safety and maintenance processes in high-hazard environments (e.g. permit to work, risk assessments, safety cases), ideally with responsibility for major plant assets
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels and work collaboratively within teams
- Relevant safety qualification or certification (e.g. IOSH, NEBOSH)
- Machinery or process safety qualification or certification (e.g. CMSE, FSCP)
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards Chartered Engineer registration
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
UKAEA’s mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce. We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM, including women and individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, while ensuring all appointments are made on merit.
UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
