Department · Nuclear Safety Case
Engineering
Scope
Technical standards, discipline competence, engineering processes, and the technical authority / subject matter expert framework. Engineering's job is to make sure that what is designed, modified or specified is technically sound — and that the people doing that work are competent to do it.
Out of scope
Operations, Maintenance and HSSE — these are separate functions with their own mappings. Engineering provides standards and assurance into those functions; it does not execute their work.
The reframing
"'Engineering = drawings and standards' thinking doesn't survive contact with the framework. If Engineering can name owners across all ten elements, the function is operating as a system, not a service. If two or three elements have no Engineering owner, that absence is the audit finding the organisation has not yet had."
Footprint across the framework
Safety case and periodic safety review
2 documents: Reactor Core Design and Reload Standard · Fire Hazards Analysis
2 docs →
Safety systems and maintenance schedule
3 documents: Safety Classification of Structures, Systems and Components · Plant Maintenance Schedule · Safety Mechanisms, Devices and Circuits Schedule
3 docs →
Where Engineering pivots into other departments
→ Operations & MaintenanceHandover, integrity execution, deviation acceptance
→ CommercialContractor technical assurance, vendor specifications