Nuclear Safety Engineer - Australia
Requirements
Candidates should ideally have a Bachelor of Engineering/Science Degree and be eligible for UK or Australian security clearance. Experience in safety and assurance, particularly in the defense maritime sector, is highly regarded.
Job Description
**Role is based in Australia**
Who are Frazer-Nash Consultancy?
Frazer-Nash is a leading systems, engineering, and technology company. We help organisations deliver innovative engineering and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable.
With over 1000 employees, we work from a network of nine UK and four Australian locations. Our people apply their technical and consulting expertise to develop, enhance and protect our clients’ critical assets, systems, and processes.
We offer diverse and structured career paths for some of the world’s best talent so they can help us forge a secure, mobile, and sustainable world. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and become part of the fabric that shapes where we are headed next.
Our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive team has been at the core of our success, and it is our people who make us what we are. When you join Frazer-Nash, you become part of a community of exceptional professionals who live and share the same values.
You will have the opportunity to work and deliver across a range of varied projects, regularly applying your experience and knowledge to new environments.
Your Opportunity
We are seeking to further grow our already highly regarded radiation and nuclear engineering capability.
Our work is spread across diverse industries from defence to healthcare, energy production to transport infrastructure. We work with our clients to refine their needs and support them in delivering and assuring solutions that are fit for purpose, deliver safety and are environmentally compliant.
At Frazer-Nash we can offer professional engineers of any technical discipline a dynamic work environment, where you bring your own expertise to our group but with an enthusiasm for working across sectors and broadening your experience base.
With the announcement of the new AUKUS pact there has never been a better time for engineering professionals, especially those with nuclear safety expertise, to be in Australia. Australia needs to build a significant sovereign workforce in order to deliver this major uplift in Defence capability. This is supercharging an already exciting environment for fast career progression.
Additionally, we have a wide range of other interesting and innovative safety and assurance projects to help broaden and strengthen your skills.
Our current projects include:
- Supporting naval surface ship and submarine programs in Adelaide and Perth
- Supporting the safety case development of Australia’s first Commonwealth radioactive waste disposal facility.
- Leading thinking on the assurance of autonomy.
- Developing an understanding of how machine learning can support safety engineering.
- Unlocking existing transport regulatory frameworks to enable autonomous operations.
- Digitising system engineering support for increased productivity.
- Supporting the assurance of Australia’s commercial space related activities.
- Delivering the safety and assurance programs for major rail infrastructure projects in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne.
- Improving the efficiency of power generation and transmission through innovative modelling
Requirements
To be successful in the role, you will ideally have:
- Bachelor of Engineering/Science Degree (or equivalent depth of training).
- Have (or be eligible for) UK or Australian security clearance (essential)
- Safety and assurance knowledge and experience (Highly regarded)
- Previous Defence maritime experience (Highly regarded)
- Systems engineering knowledge and experience (desirable)
- Chartered Engineer Status (desirable)
- Excellent client management/stakeholder engagement skills (or the aptitude to learn)
What Australia offers!
Australia is investing an historic amount of money into Defence spending over this decade, including an estimated $268-$368 billion on acquiring nuclear powered submarines under the AUKUS partnership. This is indicative not only of a changing global strategic landscape but a country with a sense of purpose and identity. This level of investment offers huge opportunity for you to bring your expertise to the fore and add a significant new dimension to your career, whilst enjoying all that Australia has to offer.
Australia is famous for its “have a go” lifestyle and Australian people are known as some of the most welcoming in the world. Australians also love the great outdoors and for good reason, Australia is a land of beautiful contrasts, from wide-open plains to lush tropical rainforests and everything in between.
Benefits
Our approach to investing in our people will offer you structured mentorship tailored to your professional development needs. You will learn and grow with people dedicated to helping you succeed, and we are committed to supporting your work-life balance and flexible working.
Career satisfaction and reward for ongoing commitment are what you can expect working at Frazer-Nash. We want to help you grow your career by providing you with the best opportunities for training and development.
We provide our people with an excellent benefits package that comprises:
- A workplace culture certified as a Great Place To Work
- Flexible working
- Competitive salary (including annual reviews)
- Support in attaining professional membership
- Paid parental leave
- Income protection
- Corporate rewards
- Salary packaging/Novated leasing
- Employee stock purchase plans
- Flu shots, skin checks and discounted private health insurance
- Career development: Online learning, professional development and career pathways
Please note, visa application and financial relocation assistance will be provided to the successful candidates if required.
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Education
["bachelor degree"]
Skills
About Frazer-Nash Consultancy
With offices in the UK and Australia, Frazer-Nash is a leading systems, engineering and technology company. Our work makes a difference to things that matter in the world. Our c.1500 employees work from a network of fourteen UK and four Australian locations. They apply their expertise to develop, enhance and protect our clients' critical assets, systems and processes. We contribute to national security in a huge number of ways, helping to ensure that power is generated and distributed to everyone who needs it. We support moving people and goods around and between the big cities of an increasingly urbanised society. We work to make the world a more sustainable place. We ensure governments save time and money when public spending globally is under huge pressure. And we help our clients wrestle with the challenges and opportunities of an ever-accelerating digital revolution. A career with Frazer-Nash - we have opportunities in Australia and throughout the UK. We recruit from a diverse range of backgrounds. ‘Innovators’, ‘problem solvers’, ‘thinkers’ and ‘doers’ are just some of the words that are used to describe our employees. So, whether you’re a graduate, an experienced professional or wish to be included on our Associates Register, there may be a place for you at Frazer-Nash. We also welcome applications from ex-military specialists, as we know military skills, experience, and knowledge can translate seamlessly into our commercial environment. Our Australian business is going from strength to strength - so we're particularly keen to hear from you if you're looking for your next move in Adelaide, Melbourne or Canberra. You can find out more by visiting our Australian careers site, fncaustralia.com.au. And if you're in the UK, you can explore our current opportunities on our website at the link below. Registered address: Springfield Drive, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7NL
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