Job Description

Role Purpose:

To lead the management, maintenance, and deployment of radiometric equipment and associated technologies, in support of the delivery of radiometric characterisation services to the Sellafield site.

Principle Accountabilities

• Collaborate with Plant Engineering, operations, maintenance, EHS&Q etc. to deliver engineering strategic options to enable the efficient delivery of business objectives.
• Discharge site arrangements reflecting regulatory expectations and industry relevant good practice for Characterisation Systems.
• Review and amend process and procedures in line with assurance findings, industry best practice and customer feedback, to drive continuous improvements as directed by the Principal Engineer for Radiometrics.
• Maintain compliance with appropriate regulations, standards and policies and carries responsibility for safety, cost (may include supply chain) and quality standards for their teams.
• Lead identification of system problems (especially recurring issues) and co-ordinate appropriate corrective maintenance actions as required.
• Contribute to and deliver operational plans for facilities, site areas and SES programs ensuring appropriate resources are managed to enable the delivery of the wider enterprise missions.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders/customers to ensure integration which leads to the effective delivery of key engineering and maintenance activities to support strategic objectives.
• Manage the motivation, personal development, and performance of direct reports to ensure a high performing and cohesive team.
• Accountable for the correct equipment / spares at appropriate specification levels are always available to ensure the efficient operation of the plant and equipment.
• Manage and drive maintenance strategies, breakdown resolution for asset scope through agreed Technical Basis of Maintenance (TBoM), Ageing Degradation process, escalating as appropriate for visibility to the program leads.
• Lead and/or support internal investigations to identify root cause and share learning from experience to ensure best practice and understanding.
• Coach and mentor others in and across Specialist Equipment Services to capture knowledge and develop future capability

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher level qualification equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Chartered status or potential to achieve chartered status through an accredited professional institute.
• Engineering experience, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility.
• Excellent people leadership skills and experience of team management.

Essential Skills

• Higher level qualification equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline.
• 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 & maintenance management arrangements and standards.
• Demonstrable knowledge/ experience in people leadership skills and team management.

Desirable Skills

• Chartered status or potential to achieve chartered status through an accredited professional institute.
• Engineering experience, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility.
• Evidence of leading teams deploying Radiometric Characterisation Equipment on Operational Plants.

Additional Information

Number of Vacancies: 1
Contact/s: Johnny Perry
johnny.perry@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:
3.1.5 Commitment to standards – Level 3
3.3.4 Lead by Example – Level 3
3.3.3 Holding Self to Account and others – Level 3

Technical:
C3: Control and Supervision – Accomplished
D5: Facilities, Tools and Equipment, MTE, Spares and Other Materials – 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.