Independent Assessor

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Have you built your career around independent assurance, nuclear safety, and improving performance in complex regulated environments? Do you enjoy providing constructive challenge that helps major projects succeed? At EDF, Success is Personal. Join us and help strengthen the governance, safety, and assurance that underpin one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes.

The Opportunity

As an Independent Assessor, you'll provide independent review, challenge, and insight across key project activities, helping to maintain a nuclear safety overview while supporting continuous improvement. Your work will influence senior leaders, strengthen organisational effectiveness, and help ensure best practice is embedded across the project. You’ll join us on a salary starting of £65,000 per annum. This is a hybrid role based at AztecWest in Bristol, with occasional travel to HinkleyPointC in Bridgwater to collaborate with environmental, safety, assurance, and corporate specialists across the business.

Working within Independent Nuclear Regulation, you'll assess project processes, governance, and management systems against UK and international standards. You'll contribute to our journey towards An Electric Britain by identifying opportunities for improvement, presenting findings to senior stakeholders, and supporting excellence across nuclear safety, quality, environmental, security, and operational performance.

Who You Are

• A degree in an engineering, scientific, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Significant experience within a nuclear, highly regulated, or technically complex industry
• Demonstrable experience of assurance, assessment, auditing, inspection, or oversight activities
• Strong knowledge of UK regulatory requirements, including areas such as Nuclear Site Licence conditions, environmental permitting, or health and safety legislation
• Experience presenting findings, recommendations, and independent challenge to senior managers and directors
• Proven ability to analyse complex processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
• Expertise in at least one key nuclear or regulated discipline such as nuclear safety, engineering, supply chain, environmental, security, operations, or safety case management

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Conducting independent assessments of project and business processes to provide assurance and challenge
• Producing clear findings and recommendations that support improved performance and regulatory compliance
• Presenting independent views and assurance outputs to senior leaders, committees, and regulators
• Analysing information from assessments, inspections, audits, and learning events to identify trends and risks
• Leading or supporting multi-disciplinary assessment teams across assurance activities

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a salary starting of £65,000 per annum, potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more. At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments. Join us and find your success at EDF!

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy. Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future. EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education. We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas. It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more. Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing. We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity.