• Production of generic and site specific environmental safety reports
• Acting in the capacity of Intelligent Client for procurement of environmental safety case services
• Specification of work, assessment of tenders and management of contracts for safety case services
• Review and challenge of work undertaken by suppliers to ensure that work is of appropriate quality, is checked and verified and meets the needs of the safety case
• Ensuring work is carried out in line with NWS Technical Governance procedures
• Developing strategies and approaches for demonstrating compliance with appropriate regulations
• Developing claims, arguments and evidence in support of the environmental safety case
• Understanding and communicating the output of total system models of the disposal system
• Providing high quality and timely advice on environmental safety case aspects
• Providing input to site specific evaluations of environmental safety
• Checking and approving post-closure disposability assessments produced in support of the Letter of Compliance Process
• Working with internal stakeholders, including research managers, to ensure that work meets safety case needs
• Working with internal stakeholders across the business to communicate the outputs and needs of the safety case
• Acting as a senior representative at national and international fora and events (including involvement with EC projects and international organisations such as the IAEA and NEA
• Engaging with learned societies and the general public, as appropriate

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex safety arguments to a wide range of stakeholders (specialist and non-specialist)
• Good first degree in science or engineering subject
• Good understanding of regulatory requirements for the environmental safety cases
• Knowledge of the form, hazard and characteristics of higher activity radioactive wastes and waste packaging processes
• Experienced safety case report author