Engineering Safety & Regulatory Compliance Lead

Working arrangements

Please note this role does offer hybrid working, our model sets out a minimum 60% onsite / 40% home working split

Part time working or job share options will be reviewed on an individual basis.

Overview

This key role will focus on ensuring the regulatory compliance and technical safety of Tokamak Energy designs, products and the operation of experimental devices.

• Lead and coordinate regulatory activity and ensure compliance with all relevant legislation from initiation through design to service.
• Lead and participate in design reviews (e.g., HAZID, HAZOP), safety studies, and provide technical input for regulatory compliance.
• Work with a range of stakeholders to produce and implement technical safety assessments, reports and safety cases for plant and operations.
• Contribute to and carry out assessment of modifications that may affect existing safety assessments and ensure they remain valid.
• Contribute to ensuring best technical safety practice is established and followed throughout the business.
• Ensure that products designed by Tokamak Energy comply with necessary standards and directives and that appropriate declarations of conformity (e.g. CE/UKCA/UL) can be made.
• Take ownership of product Technical Files and ensure that approved engineering reports and operating instructions necessary for regulatory compliance have been completed.
• Identify, interpret, and educate teams on appropriate regulatory standards, monitor their development and implement updates as required.
• Take a leading role in defining and sustaining our cohort of in-house subject matter experts for specific hazards, standards and regulations.

Experience Requirements

• Experience dealing with notified bodies and regulators in a relevant industry.
• Degree qualified likely with Chartered Engineer status or comparable experience in a related field.
• Experience or knowledge of safety assessment techniques including HIRA, HAZID, HAZOP, FMEA, etc.
• Creation and implementation of technical safety documentation and reports, preferably in a regulated and high-hazard industrial environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a positive, proactive and enthusiastic approach.
• Strong skills in building and maintaining relationships with business and functional leaders.
• Experience writing ALARP/ALARA statements for radiological hazards.
• Extensive experience in regulatory compliance and technical safety with a good knowledge of UK and international legislative requirements
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and manage multi-company technical safety and regulatory requirements effectively.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritise, work independently and explain complex topics to diverse stakeholders.

• Salary dependent on skills and experience and will be discussed from the outset
• 28 days (inclusive of festive break) holiday plus bank holidays
• Eligible for discretionary performance related bonus
• Share options scheme
• Pension scheme
• Financial benefits – including; group life insurance, critical illness, health cash plan and discount scheme 
• Innovation and Merit bonuses
• Investment in training and development to support career progression
• Opportunity to work on and contribute to world class innovation

About Us

What if there was a limitless, safe, clean, low-cost energy source, providing much needed global energy security? What if that energy source could also help reduce climate change? We believe that’s fusion energy. Tokamak Energy is a leading global commercial fusion energy company based near Oxford, UK. We have an unrivalled track record designing and operating spherical tokamaks; the optimal route to commercial fusion energy.

In addition to fusion energy, Tokamak Energy is recognised as the leader in High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) magnet, design, numerical modelling, and prototyping. Our dedicated HTS magnet team, in collaboration with key manufacturing partners, is focussed on becoming the leading supplier of HTS magnets to multiple markets.

The company, founded in 2009 as a spin-off from the UK’s Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, currently employs a growing team of over 250 people with experts from the UK and around the world. It combines world leading scientific, engineering, industrial and commercial capabilities. The company has 70 families of patent applications and has raised $250 million, comprising $200m from private investors and $50m from the UK and US governments. Our US subsidiary, Tokamak Energy Inc, was established in 2019.

Come and be a part of a dynamic and innovative team who are striving to provide a solution to one of humanity’s greatest challenges: clean and sustainable energy for all.

Important information

Please note that any personal data submitted to Tokamak Energy will be processed in accordance with the GDPR and related UK data protection legislation.

If you do not meet all the listed criteria for this position, we would still welcome your application.

Entry into employment with Tokamak Energy and progression within employment will be determined only by personal merit and the application of criteria which are related to the duties of each post and the relevant salary structure. In all cases, ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.

No applicant or member of staff shall be discriminated against because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.