Senior, Principal or Associate Consultant (Nuclear Regulation), United Kingdom

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? 

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects, and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you. 

Our work in the nuclear sector is growing, and we are looking for talented people with experience in the nuclear sector to join our Environmental Permitting & Nuclear Regulation Team at a Senior Consultant or Principal Consultant grade and support the sectors safe, secure, and sustainable growth.  

A little more about your role… 

At WSP, we are driven by a shared purpose: delivering the kind of work the world genuinely needs. As part of our establish and growing Environmental Permitting & Nuclear Regulation team, you will help deliver nationally significant nuclear projects and play a key role in supporting the UK’s transition to a secure, low carbon energy future.  

Whether your background is in regulation, licensing, radiological protection, radioactive waste management, nuclear operations, consultancy, or another relevant field, we welcome your perspective and the opportunity to support you to shape and develop your career. You’ll join a collaborative community where your ideas are valued, your expertise is respected, and your development is supported.  

You will play a key role in high impact energy initiatives, from gigawatt-scale nuclear megaprojects such as Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C to Small and Advanced Modular Reactor projects in collaboration with Great British Energy – Nuclear and commercial developers. Additionally, you will support projects focused on the development, and safe and sustainable operation of existing nuclear sites, nuclear decommissioning, remediation of nuclear legacies, and the secure, sustainable management and disposal of radioactive waste. Our work includes: 

• Advising reactor vendors, developers and licensees on navigating the UK nuclear regulatory requirements and taking advantage of the Nuclear Regulatory Review.   

• Delivering timely and proportionate permitting, licensing and consenting of nuclear projects and contributing to investable nuclear projects. 

• Efficiently developing effective Environmental Cases for nuclear facilities and demonstrating the application of Best Available Techniques for nuclear operators. 

• Supporting nuclear developers and operators secure compliance with permit and licence requirements and proportionately delivering the high standards of safety, security and sustainability expected of them.  

You will work on both large and small projects, often within multi‑disciplinary teams, and will help shape and maintain strong client relationships through high‑quality delivery and trusted advice.  

This role offers flexibility of location across WSP’s offices across the UK, with opportunities to collaborate nationally and internationally. Occasional travel within the UK is expected.  

Your Team 

You will be joining a highly capable, growing, and welcoming team of twenty-five Environmental Permitting & Nuclear Regulation specialists and experts at various stages of their careers, presenting opportunities to both mentor/guide early career professionals alongside the opportunity to learn from highly experienced industry experts. 

The Environmental Permitting & Nuclear Regulation team sits within a wider Sustainable Resources Discipline of over 100 specialists working across a variety of sectors providing deep and broad technical advisory services to translate sustainability strategy into compliant, resilient, low-risk operational change, to make sustainability real. 

Our main hub for Environmental Permitting & Nuclear Regulation is in Manchester, though we have members of the team located across many of WSP’s 30 offices throughout the UK, including offices close to the UK’s key nuclear employment clusters. 

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate… 

We welcome applications from a wide range of backgrounds.  

If some of the criteria below describe you, we would love to hear from you—even if you don’t meet every point. 

• Self-motivated - thorough and be able to demonstrate successful collaborative delivery of tasks or projects to exacting standards. 

• Client focused - able to build trust and provide well-evidenced advice at short notice as well as a proven ability to deliver to tight timelines. 

• Clear communicator - Able to communicate complex information clearly to clients, regulators, and multidisciplinary teams. Skilled at tailoring messages for different audiences. 

• Understanding of the safety and sustainability issues facing nuclear sector companies, primarily around nuclear and radioactive substances regulation. 

• Understanding of relevant nuclear legislation, regulations and guidance and good practice and their application within the nuclear sector.  

• Experience in one or more of the following: nuclear regulation, environmental permitting, safety, sustainability and environmental management, radioactive waste management, safety/environmental assessments, environmental monitoring, or safety and environmental cases.  

• Experience of radiological and non-radiological impact environmental assessment, safety assessment, environmental monitoring, safety and environment cases or BAT, ALARP or HAZOP studies would be an advantage.  

• You will be committed to continuous learning and professional development; membership of a relevant professional body is welcome but not essential. 

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.