Nuclear Safeguards Lead
Westinghouse Electric Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Preston • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead, support, and develop a team of Nuclear Material Accountants, ensuring high performance, technical competence, and regulatory excellence.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and day to day guidance to ensure accurate accountancy, strong analytical capability, and consistent application of safeguards principles.
- Allocate work, set priorities, and support the delivery of team outputs, ensuring deadlines and regulatory requirements are met.
- Foster a culture of integrity and continuous improvement within the Safeguards team.
- Support professional development, training, and succession planning for team members.
- Represent the Safeguards team in cross functional meetings and ensure communication between projects, operations, and regulatory bodies.
- Apply Safeguards by Design principles across new and existing projects.
- Maintain strong working knowledge of The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (NSR19).
- Understand and apply the ONR Nuclear Material Accountancy, Control & Safeguards Assessment Principles (ONMACS).
- Ensure full compliance with safeguards regulations and implement changes through appropriate processes and procedures.
- Oversee and deliver robust Nuclear Material (NM) Accounts.
- Production, analysis, and submission of Nuclear Material Accountancy reports for internal and external stakeholders.
- Safeguards lead for all meetings with the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), and ensuring reports, audits, and assessments are delivered to set deadlines.
- Engage with national and international stakeholders to identify and apply best/good practice.
Requirements
- Someone who can motivate, coach, and develop a specialist team.
- Experience managing or mentoring technical staff in a regulated environment.
- Technical expertise in nuclear safeguards.
- Understanding of safety cases and their implications for new nuclear build projects.
- Experience designing and implementing accountancy processes for new flows or facilities.
- Experience supporting new build or major project implementation.
- Interpret and apply government guidance, regulations, and ONR expectations.
- Strong capability in data analysis, reporting, and presentation.
Benefits
- Attractive remuneration
- Great benefits for your convenience and safety:
- Peer-to-peer recognition program.
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
- Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members
- Learning and development opportunities.
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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