Permitting Manager
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Framatome is an international leader in nuclear energy recognized for its innovative digital and value added solutions for the global nuclear fleet. With worldwide expertise and a proven track record for reliability and performance the company designs services and installs components fuel and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants. Its more than 20 000 employees work every day to help Framatomes customers supply ever cleaner safer and more economical low-carbon energy. Visit us at and follow us on Twitter: @Framatome and LinkedIn: Framatome.Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI 19.5%).
Reference number
2025-22058Publication date
6/16/2025Category
S - HEALTHSAFETYSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - S4 - Operations Nuclear Safety
Job Opening Title
Permitting Manager
Job type
Non fixed term
BU description
Framatome is an international leader in nuclear energy recognized for its innovative and digital solutions its high added value technologies for the global nuclear fleet. With global expertise and a strong track record of reliability and performance the company designs maintains and installs components and fuels as well as control systems for nuclear power plants. With around 20000 employees every day Framatomes customers can provide an ever cleaner safer and more economical low-carbon energy mix. Visit us at and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. Framatome is owned by EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI 19.5%).
The Fuel BU is a world leader in the manufacture of fuels for nuclear power plants and research reactors in the world with R&D design and plant centers on the American and European continent.
Framatome is implementing a new factory for the assembly of fuels for the operation of nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom. This plant will be built in phases to meet short medium and long-term objectives.
The investment project is led by Framatome and must be innovative to meet the challenges of the company and the United Kingdom.
Job description
Your mission is to support a safety and licensing manager in the management of environmental impacts and associated permitting on the project. We are seeking an experienced Permitting Manager to develop and maintain the environmental impacts assessment for our nuclear fuels manufacturing project in the U.K. This role is crucial to the success of our project and ensuring high levels of regulatory compliance and maintaining the highest standards of environmental compliance.
The majority of the project activities will take place in UK where the site is located and with limited travels to France or Germany.
Mission Description
Accountabilities
- Modelling measuring and assessing environmental radioactivity and other environmental contaminants
- Undertaking offsite radiological and environmental impact assessments for discharges and disposals routes
- Prospective (predictive/modelled) and retrospective (measured/monitored) assessments
Responsibilities
- Develop the overall environmental assessment (in the form of permitting condition arrangements handbook etc.) and detailed planning schedule identifying the requisite assessments governance process and timing
- Author the technical specification for preparing the environmental baseline and required reports to be submitted to authorities
- Author specifications for undertaking specific environmental assessments supporting reports
- Coordinate with technical specialists engineers and operations teams across the wider business to gather input data for environmental assessments
- Ensure identification of relevant environmental features devices systems and circuits that are important to environmental protection and providing advice to the Company / project on the treatment and implementation such devices and systems
- Develop and ensure the requisite processes for undertaking Design Reviews HAZIDs HAZOPs and HASANs are adequate for environmental compliance
- Author environmental assessments and reports reflecting ones own capabilities and time constraints
- Review environmental assessments and reports undertaken by others within Framatome and / or by consultants
- Identifying relevant environmental impacts scenario learning and established processes from elsewhere in the group for implementing in the project
- Manage the environmental scenario during construction including impact assessments and change control during construction
- Liaise with EA and LPA and represent the organization during the permitting on the environmental assessment process supported by the licensing manager
- Provide subject matter senior guidance on environmental matters to the project company senior management and relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute to and facilitate where necessary project environmental assessment workshops design reviews design substantiation BAT (Best practicable Environmental Option) optioneering etc.
- Facilitate understanding of the UK environmental context and approaches with briefing training
Profile
Profile
Will have a demonstrable record of delivering a range of environmental impacts assessment through authoring contract management of third party delivery
Experience in the delivery of environmental assessment in an authoring role.
Experiencein the setting to work of consultants developing specifications and scopes of work developing environmental methodologies and assessment strategies.
Will be established senior level in their current employment one or more specific areas of environmental analysis e.g. ecology soil characteristics aqueous or gaseous discharge radioactive contaminant and with a good understanding of other topics.
Experienced in environmental assessment governance challenge and review and regulator liaison.
Candidates with specific experience of the nuclear fuel cycle (e.g. enrichment deconversion fuel fabrication etc.) will be of particular interest.
Position Location: Bristol England at the beginning of the project and transfer at site (30 kms from Bristol) in due time.
Professional travels:France Germany and UK.
Candidate criteria
- Master degree
- Experienced (5 years )
Benefits
In return we are offering a salary of up to 80000 plus excellent benefits to include:
- 25 days annual leave per year raising to30 (1 day for every 2 years service)
- 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) 1% min Employee
- Individual and family private health care
Life assurance (4x salary) - Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- Income Protection
- Professional Body Membership (1 per year)
- Plus more including access to training and development opportunities.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.
Everyone will be considered without attention to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or disability status.
Job location
United Kingdom Bristol
Job location (site)
Avonmouth
Travel
Occasionally
Job family
Standard
Applicant criteria
Minimum level of education required
Master
Minimum level of experience required
Experienced
Employment level
Cadre
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
