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To manage and improve the safe operation and Emergency Response of the Sellafield Site as per Site Licence Condition 11. The Safety & Site Shift Manager (S&SSM) co-ordinates resources and communications with company executives, emergency services, regulators, external agencies and key stakeholders.

Principal Accountabilities:

The S&SSM is the SLC Chief Executive Officer’s Nominated Representative and carries delegated authority for discharging the duties of the Chief Executive Officer, Sellafield Ltd, to manage the site-wide tactical response to an incident. The S&SSM is authorised to make decisions that affect the site as a whole. If the situation warrants, the S&SSM will assume the role of Site Emergency Controller (SEC), declare the appropriate emergency condition and initiate the call-in of response teams to form the full Site Emergency Management Organisation. Under Unified Command, the S&SSM may serve as the ‘Operations’ arm in conjunction with Police Services (CNC or Cumbria Constabulary, as appropriate); and Fire Services (Sellafield Fire & Rescue or Cumbria Fire and Rescue Services, as appropriate). The S&SSM discharges the authority of the SEC until formally relieved by the Duty SEC.
Other duties include:
• Monitoring overall Site conditions and monitoring of external events and, if judged to be necessary, implementing the Site Emergency Arrangements as required.
• Reporting of any abnormal discharges to the Environment Agency within 24 hours of being notified.
• Undertaking a command role for work associated with various contracts outside of core Supervising Officers hours, providing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is in place or for those judged in the interests of safety.
• Provision of daily reports to inform management and other interested parties of the current plant status, problems and production levels.
• Managing the Sellafield Restricted Airspace, Helipad and UAV Operations in accordance with the relevant emergency management supporting procedures.
• Acts as initial point of contact for external stakeholders during silent hours.
• Liaising with Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), Cumbria Constabulary and Sellafield Security on matters affecting site.
• Communicating the status of site issues to the Sellafield workforce.

The Ideal Candidate:

To be successful in this role you must have the following essential skills:

• Significant experience within or supporting operations with broad experience typically gained from working across multiple operational areas.
• Demonstratable experience of having undertaken an emergency response role.
• Detailed knowledge of disciplined operations and emergency response procedures.
• Excellent problem-solving skills within a nuclear environment.
• Demonstratable experience of formal decision-making processes in high pressured environments (e.g. ODM, CDM, ICC, SECC).
• The ability to deal with complex emergency situations in a dynamic and fast changing environment.
• Demonstratable experience of producing clear, concise and effective workforce communications.
• Strong facilitation and influencing skills and stakeholder management skills, able to wield influence over other senior leaders in the organisation.
• Proven knowledge of the Sellafield Ltd site, hazards posed, organisational structure, processes, site layout (HSA, Separation, Island Sites etc).
• Demonstratable leadership experience aligned to Leadership Standard.
• Minimum performance rating of meets expectations for the last 2 years.
• Minimum of SC clearance and ability to attain DV.

Additional Information:

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: Pool
• Contact/s: Nigel Murdock

The selection process for this role will be in two phases:
Phase 1 – a competency-based interview.
Phase 2 – a practical assessment (if successful at phase 1).

Phase 1 interviews are expected to take place 24th February 2025.
Phase 2 assessment dates to be confirmed.

The purpose of this VN is to create a pool of candidates to be placed into future vacancies, permanent posting is dependent on the completion of the specific training plan and SQEP sign off.

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.

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:
3.1.3 Problem Solving
3.2.2 Resilience
3.3.2 Effective Communications
3.3.4 Leading by Example

Technical:
31.1 Knowledge of Sellafield Ltd
39.7 Operating Plants
315.6 Emergency Planning & Preparedness

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.

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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