[en] Successfully executed radioactive waste management projects are critical to the sustainability of the nuclear industry. While there’s a tendency to think the challenges to successfully siting radioactive waste management facilities are technical, public acceptance is perhaps the biggest challenge. The social aspects of nuclear waste storage, transportation and disposal cannot be understated; hence the growing emphasis on consent-based siting. While there are examples of successful and unsuccessful siting efforts there is no single “roadmap” or “framework” to describe how to secure community consent. One such potential roadmap or framework could be Sociotechnical Systems Design, which recognizes the interaction between people and technology and considers social and technical factors that influence the functionality, practicability, acceptability, and usage of a system. A holistic analysis of any system considers five work system elements (people, technology–tools, tasks, policies–organization, and the environment) and identifies where requirements or conditions of these elements have consequences triggering changes on the others. Concurrent Engineering is a systematic approach that enables designers to consider all system elements and their interfaces throughout the life cycle by incorporating stakeholders early in the pre-design stages. The paper describes how to use a sociotechnical system that relies on a Concurrent Engineering process to achieve consent-based siting of a nuclear waste management facility. The resulting framework addresses the socioeconomic requirements of communities while facilitating communication and interaction opportunities between technical, political, and social stakeholders. This will allow communities to access information and raise concerns about nuclear waste management locally, while letting technical specialists factor these concerns into the waste management facility design, providing information where needed, and reducing the need for rework and retrofitting. Staged implementation of sociotechnical systems design supported by concurrent engineering can be key to consent-based siting and a successful nuclear waste management programme. (author)