Job Description

1. Role Purpose:

The Principal Engineer is a site wide role establishing and providing oversight on standards and nuclear / industry good practice relevant to their obligations and is viewed by regulators, peers, and stakeholders as the leading authority on the standards of their expertise.

Principle Accountabilities

1. Deliverables:

• Identify legislation, external standards and relevant good practice (RGP) related to safety and obligations for system, structures, components, processes and plant equipment.
• Establish and conduct appropriate independent oversight of standards in accordance with a programme agreed annually with the Chief Engineer. Agree required improvements with delivery areas through appropriate consultation and monitor effectiveness and timeliness of delivery in a manner consistent with Nuclear Industry Independent Oversight Good Practice Guide.
• Participate in external bodies setting or influencing changes to legislation and external standards/RGP.
• Pro-actively manage the expectations on relevant standards with key stakeholders and regulators such as Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR), Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Environmental Agency (EA) technical specialists.
• Set standards for site practices relevant to their area of authority and incorporate standards into the Site Management System. Provides guidance on use of ALARP, Programme ALARP, BAT and SFAIRP for the standards.
• Site process lead for arrangements required for their relevant obligations to ensure legal compliance and consistency in approach.
• Continually communicate and educate key internal stakeholders on the application of standards through holding or attending appropriate Forums, ensuring standards are readily understood by the users of the standards.
• Define the assurance arrangements to ensure standards have been correctly implemented and are effective (to include appropriate mix of oversight, audit, learning from experience, key performance indicators and in- line management assurance); review the outputs of assurance activities and take appropriate corrective action based on findings.
• Provide leadership and direction for the Engineering and Maintenance community setting standards for subtopic themes to ensure compliance and consistency of approach.
• Escalate as necessary to Chief Engineer and site Director any significant gaps in meeting legal obligations or relevant good practice.
• Hold site organisation to account for adequately resourcing and maintaining network of nominated roles to ensure we remain safe and legal.
• Define and set the standard for EIM&T (Examination, Inspection, Maintenance & Testing) ensuring compliance with legislation and RPG.
• Build and maintain extensive networks over site Engineering, Operations and Maintenance organisations (including contractors) influence and share relevant good practice.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) support to plants, investigation of safety events and other oversight organisations as appropriate, noting that priority is to educate site on expectations and not to be the default advice centre for routine compliance issues.
• SME on safe operation and maintenance of a broad range and age of plant and all relevant UK obligations related to safe operation and maintenance of plant equipment with excellent awareness of broad industry Relevant Good Practice.

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline
• Membership to Chartered status of an appropriate recognised Institute.
• In depth knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and relevant good practice.
• Extensive experience at a senior position of authority within E&M.
• Extensive experience of working with range of plant equipment found at site
• Experience of developing and implementing standards
• Knowledge and experience of good practice maintenance management and system engineering regimes

Essential Skills

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline
• Chartered status or potential to achieve chartered status with an appropriate accredited Institute. (Professionally registered at either IEng or CEng level or ability to achieve professional registration)
• Demonstrable experience of providing SME advice in an engineering, maintenance discipline or chosen subject.
• Demonstrable knowledge of internal and external standards within an engineering and maintenance discipline which demonstrates compliance to external standards and relevant good practice.
• Demonstrable evidence of pro-actively managing expectations on relevant standards with key stakeholders and regulators such as Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR), Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Environmental Agency (EA) technical specialists.
• Evidence of conduct appropriate independent oversight of standards agreeing required improvements through appropriate consultation and monitor effectiveness and timeliness

Desirable Skills

• Experience of leading change and problem solving within the organisation.
• Experience of participating in external bodies setting or influencing changes to legislation and external standards/RGP resulting in changing arrangements to resulting compliance.
• Demonstrable experience of excellent communication skills and ability to influence at all levels of organisation directly and indirectly.

Additional Information

Number of Vacancies: 1
Contact/s: Darren Culling

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:
• Resilience (4)
• Drive for Results (4)
• Commitment to Standards (4)

Technical:
• B2 – Obligations and relevant good practices (Authoritative)
• F2 – Assurance and problem analysis (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.