Job Description

Role Purpose:

To lead, direct and control the provision of a safe, quality and cost-effective Specialist Equipment programme service; delivering Operational Technology services to identified plant areas within Sellafield Ltd. Leading a team of Managers, Principal Engineers, Technical Specialists and Engineers providing specialist technical delivery & investigative expertise, in support of plant operations and projects. Actively Participate as a member of the Operational Technology Group (OTG) senior management team in defining and implementing business strategies and policies.

Principle Accountabilities

Deliverables:

• To deliver the overall targets set by the Head of OTG to meet the site’s requirements for health, safety and environmental regulatory framework in accordance with Sellafield Ltd policy, statutory and site licence requirements.
• Discharge Authorised Person (AP) Programmable Electronic Systems (PES) and Senior Authorised Person (SAP) PES where appropriate.
• To maintain consistent and uniform working arrangements in the OTG so that the Operating Units and the Sellafield site are operated as a safe, integrated and co-ordinated unit, and to ensure that there is effective compliance with these working arrangements to meet the requirements of the site’s Management Systems.
• Deliver an agreed equipment programme service for assets and equipment, ensuring safe, cost effective, quality delivery to meet customer needs.
• To lead the team to effectively achieve challenging operational and business targets set within the business plan and customer requirements, including safety, quality, and financial targets.
• To monitor trends on deviations from customer needs and ensure that actions are in place, and are effective, in correcting any adverse trends.
• Manage, guide, and motivate all direct reports and peers; to ensure a high performing and cohesive organisation is maintained for current and future demand.
• Formally mentor staff either professionally or academically both internally and across functions and directorates as appropriate.
• Oversight of Engineering & Maintenance strategies for Specialist Equipment Services and Engineering and Maintenance to maintain site delivery within Site Licence Arrangements.

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher Education or relevant experience in an engineering role.
• Chartered Engineer or capable of attaining this.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and motivating engineering teams on complex operational plants.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Operational Technology Management arrangements and standards.
• Wider SL strategic knowledge of Engineering & Maintenance and Speciliast Equipmement Services.

Essential Skills

• Higher Education or relevant experience in an engineering role.
• Demonstrable ability to consistently deliver agreed customer expectations in terms of cost, schedule and quality.
• Demonstrable ability of having good communication skills with ability to interact at all levels to provide expert advice and guidance on technical support issues.
• Demonstrable ability of promoting and implementing changes and improvements.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Sellafield engineering and maintenance management arrangements and standards.

Desirable Skills

• Chartered Engineer or capable of attaining this, including a demonstrable understanding of professional registration competencies, such as UKSPEC.
• A demonstrable understanding of Programmable Electronic Systems management arrangements

Additional Information

Number of Vacancies: 2
Contact/s: Debbie Eilbeck

PLEASE NOTE: THIS VACANCY NOTICE WILL CLOSE AT 23:59 ON SUNDAY 22ND JUNE 2025.

If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted by the hiring manager, you will be invited to a competency based interview. In the interview, you will be assessed against the below competencies:

Behavioural:

• 1.1 Commitment to Nuclear Safety and Security – Level 4
• 3.1 Drive for Results – Level 4
• 1.6 Collaboration and Teamwork – Level 4
• 3.3 Leading Change – Level 4

Technical:

• 31.2 Management of Safety- Level 3
• 312.1 Auditing and Assessing – Level 3
• 315.9 knowledge and Interpretation of Regulatory Requirements – Level 3

Please see link to the competency framework for further information:
https://slportal.ssa-intra.net/pub/SC001/00027/Competency%20Framework/Forms/AllItems.aspx

If your technical competency is not in the above framework, please refer to the profession’s share point page for further information.

During the interview, you will also be expected to give a 10 minute presentation on Strategic Management – What area of OTG present business requires a step change and how would you ensure it is a success.

ASW’s may have the right to apply for internal Sellafield Ltd vacancies. Please note if you are an Agency Supplied Worker you are required to attach evidence of all qualifications obtained to support your application. We require a minimum of A*-C GCSE in English, Maths & Science/IT or equivalent / higher qualification.

Campaigns have been mapped and extended time has been added to adverts, shortlisting and interviews (see below):
The Profession will carry out shortlisting between 25th June – 4th July 2025.
The Profession will conduct interviews and hold wash-up sessions between 7th July – 25th July 2025.

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.

Campaign Approach

A new campaign approach is being rolled out to support the timely delivery of current and future post filling requirements, this will enable immediate vacancies to be filled along with building a holding pool for consideration against future vacancies. This VN has been issued in order to fill current demand and to create a pool for future vacancies.

Some jobs and professions may input their shortlisting and interview results earlier than the above agreed dates. Whilst we would endeavour to send out shortlisting and interview results earlier than the agreed dates if we can, this is not always possible due to the large volume of campaigns we are running coherently.

If the profession has immediate vacancies to fill, then an offer will be issued to the successful applicant. If there are no immediate vacancies, those applicants that have met the requirements will be placed in a holding pool for future consideration.

Candidates in the holding pool will only be offered roles for the positions that they have been interviewed for. If you have not been selected after 12 months, your details will be removed from the job in line with GDPR requirements and you would need to re-apply if you still wish to be considered. As per current principles once an individual accepts another role any other applications submitted will no longer be considered and they will be removed from the pool/process.

If placed into the holding pool, it is the responsibility of the applicant to advise if they no longer want to be considered. Similarly, if a candidate rejects an offer associated with the pool, they will be removed from the holding pool.

Please ensure that you save a copy of this advert and your application for future reference.