Job Description

Role Purpose

Responsible for leading an equipment services engineering team capable of maintaining and discharging Engineering Authority and plant configuration control to integrate the multi-faceted needs of a sitewide OU’s operations, maintenance and project delivery.

Principle Accountabilities

Deliverables:

• Develop and deliver strategic and operational plans for an Operating Unit, aligning resources to enable the efficient delivery of business objectives.
• Act within the principles of Engineering Authority for the Operating Unit to ensure alignment with functional requirements for assets across the facility lifecycle.
• Establish compliant, cost effective, fit for purpose engineering solutions that deliver business benefits with an acceptable level of risk.
• Act as the technical client for a substantial portfolio of projects and programmes of engineering work to ensure they are delivered to safety, legal, scheduling, cost and quality objectives.
• Establish, implement and maintain the technical baseline for Operating Unit plant assets, including the Technical Basis of Maintenance.
• Approve all engineering services (design, projects, tasks) delivered by third parties to the Operating Unit.
• Influence senior internal and external stakeholders/customers to ensure integration to ensure the effective delivery of key engineering activities to support strategic objectives.
• Lead and develop a competent, committed and focused team with individuals who are capable, energised and motivated to deliver business objectives to a consistently high standard.
• Act as an official representative of Engineering & Maintenance representing the organisation at external events and to regulators.

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Chartered status or potential to achieve chartered status through an accredited professional institute.
• Significant engineering experience, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility.
• Excellent people leadership skills and experience of team management.
• Significant engineering experience in bringing over large, complex tasks and projects that meet and deliver Customer requirements.

Essential Skills

• Evidence of excellent people leadership skills and experience.
• Demonstrable experience of working at Enterprise level
• Demonstrable evidence of communicating at all levels of the organisation (both internal and external to Sellafield)
• Demonstrable change management experience
• Significant senior level engineering experience, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility
• Hold or have the ability to achieve SR0996 Engineering Authority for the extent of the area of responsibility

Desirable Skills

• Demonstrable knowledge of working in compliance with Site Obligations, the Sellafield Ltd Nuclear Site Security Plan, Emergency Management Capability Case
• Demonstrable knowledge of working with the established site and industry best practice engineering processes.

Additional Information

Number of Vacancies: 1
Contact/s: Michael Hall mike.jx.hall@sellafieldsites.com

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:
Collaboration and Team work (Level 4)
Resilience (Level 4)
Leading Change (Level 4)

Technical:
B2 – Obligations and Relevant Good Practice (Authoritative)
H1 – Asset Strategy (Authoritative)

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.

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.