Independent Peer Review Assessor in Plymouth

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Independent Peer Review Assessor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site. As an Independent Peer Review Assessor, you'll play a critical role in safeguarding nuclear and radiological safety across complex defence infrastructure. Operating within the Independent Nuclear Oversight Group, you'll provide objective, expert assurance, challenging decisions, influencing policy, and ensuring the highest standards of compliance. Day-to-day, you'll have the opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with strategic influence. Your work will directly support safe operations, protect people and the environment, and strengthen the UK's defence capability, while offering exceptional professional growth in a highly respected field.

Responsibilities

• Conducting independent peer reviews of nuclear safety cases, policy, and technical documentation
• Presenting key findings and insights to senior governance forums, including the Nuclear Safety Committee
• Managing external consultants engaged in specialist peer review activities
• Developing and refining methodologies, processes, and "lessons learned" to strengthen assurance frameworks
• Collaborating with engineering, safety, and operational leaders to resolve technical challenges and improve safety outcomes

Essential Experience

• Demonstrating significant professional experience within nuclear safety or a related high‑hazard industry
• Applying safety analysis techniques such as fault tree analysis, FMECA, and probabilistic or deterministic assessments
• Developing and managing safety cases, including claims, arguments, and supporting evidence
• Interpreting complex engineering systems, ideally within naval or defence infrastructure environments
• Influencing stakeholders through expert advice, technical authority, and independent challenge

Qualifications

• Degree in an appropriate scientific or engineering discipline
• Chartered status with a relevant professional institution
• Nuclear Safety or Engineering training (or equivalent), such as foundation modules or safety engineering courses

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity