Vacancy Details

4A Operations Team Leader

Job number: SP06438
Profession: Operations
Location: Sellafield, West Cumbria
Band: 4A
Work Schedule: Various
Contract type: Operations Team Leader
Posting date: 17/09/2025
Closing date: 30/09/2025
Job Description

We are inviting applications against our Expression of Interest (EOI) for existing Operations Personnel currently at grade B4B or above.

Our approach to identifying and developing Team Leaders includes completing a Strengths Based Assessment and a Leadership Standard Assessment, further details are available here: https://sellafield.pagetiger.com/byyeben/1.

Current 4B Operations Team Leaders will not be required to undertake the assessment.

Applicants who successfully complete the Strengths Based Assessment and a Leadership Standard Assessment will also be required to undertake a Behavioural Assessment prior to appointment.

Current 4B Operations Team Leaders will be required to undertake the Behavioural Assessment only.

To be invited to assessment you must meet the following criteria;

• Be a Sellafield Ltd Employee currently within the Operations Profession with 2 years’ service at your current pay grade
• Discuss your interest with your Line Manager
• Be fully competent/fully accomplished in your current role.
• Have achieved at least ‘meets expectations’ in your most recent end of year performance rating.
• Be willing to move to another facility and/or working pattern in a Team Leader role.
• Have experience in an Operations/Manufacturing role.
• Be willing to undertake DAP/ASEQP appointment(s) as required.


Principal Accountabilities

Attend/lead work planning meetings and liaise with Integrated Work Management (IWM) to understand work priorities.
• Plan, organize and supervise work; ensuring fit for purpose risk assessments, working instructions and other documents required for safe work execution.
• Ensure sufficient Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP) are available to meet and Minimum/Optimum Safety Manning Levels (MSML). Where gaps are present, escalate appropriately.
• Escalate resource deficiencies where insufficient resource is available to meet Operational manning levels / deliver critical work scope.
• Authorisation and release of work as Authorizing Authority (AA).
• Oversee the activities of team members to ensure that work is carried out as required by Company standards, procedures, instructions, and other requirements.
• Coach and mentor team members and colleagues to assist in knowledge transfer and enhancement of the profession’s overall capability.
• Manage the team in accordance with company HR processes and procedures; timekeeping, sickness absence, leave, personnel records, etc.
• Support the development and implementation of improvement programmes.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME); provide authoritative nuclear safety advice on behalf of the Duty Holder.
– Investigate incidents and events (Basic Cause and Root Cause investigations).
-Participate/Facilitate formal Conservative and Operational Decision Making (CDM/ODM).
• In addition to the above role holders are expected to fulfil other duties and tasks that are commensurate with their grade assigned to them by management to ensure efficient operations and the success of the team/organisation.


Additional Information

• Open VN
• Contact/s: Lisa Sewell or Rob Dartnall

Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk.

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