🚀 The Job Mission

This role supports chemical safety excellence on a major nuclear construction project.
You’ll help manage chemical hazards to protect people and the environment.
Collaborate with experts across safety, environment, and emergency preparedness.

⚡️ Provide technical support across chemical safety, CoSHH, environment, fire, and emergency planning
⚡️ Manage and assure chemical inventory, ensuring REACH and COMAH compliance
⚡️ Review contractor requests to use chemicals, ensuring risk is understood and approved
⚡️ Support rollout of a site-wide chemical management system
⚡️ Champion a chemical safety Community of Best Practice on-site
⚡️ Assist in preparing for COMAH regulation implementation as the project evolves
⚡️ Enhance contractor capability in chemical risk assessments and hazard control
⚡️ Contribute to cross-functional risk mitigation planning and implementation

Essential Skills
🛠 Scientific degree or equivalent qualification
🛠 Experience managing hazardous chemical risks
🛠 Working knowledge of REACH and COMAH regulations
🛠 Ability to advise diverse stakeholders strategically and tactically
🛠 Strong organisational skills and multitasking ability
🛠 Proactive, autonomous, and capable of broad compliance oversight
🛠 Understanding of COSHH principles and safe chemical use
🛠 Experience supporting cross-functional teams in regulated environments

Desired Skills
✔️ Awareness of DSEAR, fire safety, and occupational health
✔️ Experience with chemical inventories or approved substance lists
✔️ COSHH, emergency response or spill training delivery experience
✔️ Excellent written and verbal communication
✔️ Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders

What We Offer

Competitive salary and benefits package. Opportunity to work on one of Europe’s largest nuclear construction projects. Professional development and training opportunities. Collaborative and inclusive work environment. Join Assystem and contribute to delivering sustainable and innovative engineering solutions for the Hinkley Point C project. We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.