Overview of Responsibilities

The salary for this role is £57,117 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.

This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to be eligible for SC Clearance (must have resided in the UK for the last 5 years), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.

The Role

Fusion is one of the most significant global opportunities of the century, and the fusion industry is growing in the UK and internationally, with the initiation of long-term projects to design and build future fusion power plant on the path to commercialisation of fusion power. This includes UKAEA’s STEP prototype reactor, in support of UKAEA Goals, to solve challenges of sustainable fusion energy.

To support these advances, the future safety, security and environment regulatory framework for fusion power plant must be developed, to ensure that it is proportionate to the risk of fusion in comparison to fission and enabling of the innovative approaches to fusion plant design.

The Fusion Safety Advisory team plays a key role in the development of UK and international regulatory framework for future fusion powerplant, providing technical fusion safety advice and expertise to DESNZ, Regulatory Bodies and the IAEA. The team also engages with domestic and international fusion groups and companies in areas of fusion safety, security and environment.

As a Regulatory Development Specialist the job holder will provide technical support and management of activities relating to the development of fusion safety, security and environmental regulation both domestically and internationally, as such, travel will be required.

Nationally, this will include working with and advising government, as well as assisting regulatory bodies, contributing to pivotal strategic industry documents and technical fusion safety guidance. Internationally, the UK has built a leading reputation in the development of proportionate fusion regulation, and the job holder will help to preserve this reputation and influence the world stage by collaborating closely with international groups, such as IAEA and others. The job holder will build relationships with multi-organisational teams, supporting working groups as required on focal regulatory topics.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Providing specialist fusion safety, security and environment input into strategic and technical documentation supporting the development of the national and international regulatory framework for the future fusion industry
• Planning regulatory familiarisation and training in fusion by providing site visits and subject matter expert presentations
• Proactive interaction with other fusion organisations and regulatory bodies, both in the UK and internationally, to support the harmonisation of fusion safety regulation
• Supporting one or more key international stakeholder relationships for the team
• Eliciting and providing input to IAEA Documents on the Fusion Regulatory Framework and Safety Assessment and potentially new Standards for fusion
• Actively participating as UK representative in national and international fusion industry workshops to develop safety standards and guidance
• Managing and providing technical input to documentation to provide guidance for the production of safety, security and environment cases for the fusion industry
• Technical review of safety documents as requested, where fusion specific expertise is required