Senior Physicist Consultant

Our competitive package includes free single medical cover, digital GP service, family friendly benefits, free employee assistance, parental programmes, and a generous professional development reimbursement. UK employees also enjoy our Collectively program with matched funding, paid volunteering time, and charitable donations.

About the Opportunity

The Assurance, Technology and Regulation (AT&R) performance unit is a critical part of the Technology & Consulting business, supporting the nuclear industry for over 60 years. This role is for a full time Senior Physicist/Consultant who will join the Reactor and Radiation Physics Team at our Birchwood office in Cheshire. You will conduct independent nuclear safety and technical assessments of submarine propulsion plant, support criticality and shielding safety cases for civil nuclear projects, and contribute to research and assurance activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Assessment of safety cases.
• Assessment of design technical cases.
• Provide formal independent nuclear safety and technical assessment of documents related to physics aspects of nuclear propulsion; deliver assessment output in formal letters for safety and technical committees.
• Perform assurance activities, including physics trails and testing.
• Contribute to research projects in reactor physics and associated technologies.
• Represent the company at safety and technical meetings with clients, plant authorisers, designers, and safety case authors.
• Apply skills to other projects, including shielding and criticality assessments for clients in the civil nuclear industry.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Criticality and radiation shielding assessment expertise.
• Reactor plant physics analysis and performance.
• Independent nuclear safety assurance, safety assessment of safety cases, and technical assessment of reactor designs.
• Criticality safety analysis.
• Radiation shielding.
• Mathematical methods and modelling.
• Experience in criticality safety, reactor physics, or shielding analysis.
• Submarine reactor design and safety case experience.
• Civil reactor design and safety case experience.
• Shielding and radiological safety case development and assessment.
• Use of physics analysis codes.
• Understanding of the UK regulatory and assurance environment.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident employer, we interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

We will make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process for applicants who require it.