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Engineering Services Support Lead

Closing date: 26/10/2026 View

Role area Engineering & Maintenance
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 3B Lower

About the role

To manage the efficient and effective planning and safe deployment of maintenance, site engineering, scaffolding and rigging resources within the Engineering Services department in line with Company, statutory, regulatory and Site Licence requirements.

Undertake observations, inspections and assessments to ensure the safe performance of systems and equipment for efficient delivery of work within the Site Manufacturing and Engineering Services (SM&ES) Workshops. Liaise with internal customers and stakeholders to understand their plant outage requirements. Manage the strategic planning and direction of the department’s performance, capability and competence to promote a high performing and cohesive team. Actively participate in the daily work screening process to determine if requested site work-scope is within SM&ES capability and capacity. Manage the safe stewardship of the SM&ES workshops including fabrication, machining, welding, pipefitting, electrical and mechanical equipment/plant to ensure that it is safe and fit for purpose. Establish and manage the appropriate controls and oversight for all internal and external service provider activities carried out within the workshop area ensuring they meet safety, quality and legal standards. Manage the implementation of appropriate standards, performance goals, measures and trends from delivery analysis to ensure continuous improvement. Higher level qualification in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline or demonstrable equivalent level of experience. Experience of engineering / maintenance / task delivery with demonstrable depth and breadth of knowledge across a wide range of disciplines including machining, fabrication, rigging, scaffolding, welding and pipe fitting. Experience in planning and prioritising the work of multi-disciplined teams and deploying across a wide range of workfaces. Working knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing techniques and experience of operating within a machine-shop and/or fabrication-shop environment....

Health Physics Team Leader 2

Closing date: 26/10/2026 View

Role area Operations
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 4A Team Leader

About the role

To control and supervise a team of health physics monitors to provide a health physics monitoring service across numerous and distinct operating units to colleagues and internal/external stakeholders to ensure site radiological safety and compliance with regulatory standards, including provision of nominated roles to support the site emergency arrangements.

Attend work planning meetings (e.g. Stakeholder Meetings, Resource Planning Meetings, Production Meetings, Plant Operational Control Centre (POCC) and liaise with Integrated Work Management (IWM) to understand work priorities. Plan, organize and supervise work; provide [write/revise/review] risk assessments, working instructions and other documents required for safe work execution, identify and sequence activities to ensure efficient conduct of work, co-ordinate with other work groups, ensure availability of necessary tools and equipment, and set realistic timescales for completion. Mobilise and prioritise resource deployment according to overall work priorities and monitor team utilisation and workload. Ensure that priority is given to work activities required for legal compliance, and balance the delivery of emergent work against the demands of the routine work schedule. Ensure sufficient SQEP team members are available to meet Operational (OSL) and Minimum Safety Staffing Levels (MSSL). Escalate resource deficiencies to line management where insufficient resource is available to meet Operational Staffing Levels (OSL) or deliver critical work scope. Ensure that team members have appropriate skills and experience to carry out work efficiently and effectively. Assign work activities based on team members’ strengths and weaknesses. Ensure that only Suitably Qualified and Experience (SQEP) team members are allocated tasks which may affect safety. Carry out Pre-Job Briefs (PJB) to ensure team members understand the work to be performed, including scope, roles and responsibilities, hazards and precautions, critical steps and contingency arrangements. Oversee the activities of team members to ensure that work is carried out...

Recruitment Advisor

Closing date: 26/10/2026 View

Role area Group Business Services GBS
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 4C
Closing date: 26/10/2026

About the role

Reporting to the Recruitment Manager, the External Recruitment Coordinator is responsible for delivering end-to-end external recruitment activity and providing a professional, customer-focused service to candidates, hiring managers and stakeholders. The role supports recruitment campaigns, onboarding, governance and continuous improvement activities, ensuring services are delivered efficiently, compliantly and in line with agreed standards. The postholder will work closely with recruiters and stakeholders across the business and provide support and deputise for the Recruitment Team Leader when required.

Coordinate end-to-end external recruitment campaigns from vacancy creation through to onboarding and vacancy closure, ensuring activities are delivered accurately and within agreed timescales. Act as the primary point of contact for candidates and hiring managers, providing guidance, managing expectations and delivering an excellent customer experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle. Build and maintain productive relationships with recruiters, hiring managers and stakeholders to support positive recruitment outcomes and effective service delivery. Coordinate recruitment activities including shortlisting, interview scheduling, moderation meetings, offer management and onboarding. Manage recruitment activity within Talent Link, Pega and K2, ensuring high standards of data quality, governance and compliance. Support talent attraction, candidate engagement and recruitment marketing activities, including vacancy advertising, talent pipeline management and employer branding initiatives. Provide day-to-day guidance and support to team members, acting as a subject matter expert for external recruitment processes and deputising for the Team Leader when required. Produce and analyse recruitment metrics, monitor campaign performance and identify opportunities to improve service delivery, candidate experience and operational effectiveness. Ensure recruitment activities comply with company policies, procedures, employment legislation and diversity and inclusion principles. Support recruitment projects, peak hiring campaigns and continuous improvement initiatives across the recruitment function. Proven experience coordinating recruitment campaigns and managing recruitment activity from attraction through to onboarding. Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and deliver a high-quality customer service. Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to...

Closing date: 26/10/2026

Developer II (PowerPlatform)

Closing date: 26/10/2026 View

Role area IT Information Services
Location Sellafield or Risley
Band 4B

About the role

Power Platform Developers are responsible for designing, developing, and implementing innovative software solutions (both on-prem and cloud) that meet ISO/ICT’s, and Sellafield Ltd’s, strategic business needs. Roleholders require strong technical expertise, an ability to work effectively in teams, and a commitment to continuous improvement to deliver secure and scalable solutions that help Sellafield Ltd realise its digital ambition.

Support the delivery of Power Platform digital products across ISO/ICT and Sellafield Ltd by developing software components and writing clean, secure, and well-tested code, to provide quality solutions. Proactively manage service components in line with key performance indicators (KPIs), supporting service availability and capacity management as well as the identification and resolution of service faults. Optimise development processes by analysing existing workflows, identifying improvements, and supporting their implementation. Design, review, and support the quality assurance of software solutions to ensure they effectively mitigate security threats. Apply modern development technique and standards to the delivery of all software solutions and encourage adherence to them among other developers. Use a variety of prototyping methods, sharing best practice and supporting other developers in their application, while considering the strategic end-to-end design of services. Design systems in line with architectural principles, policies and organisational standards. This may also include supporting their implementation and procurement. Support systems integration by defining the integration build, coordinating build activities across systems, and participating in testing. Support engagement with the Digital Exploitation team to understand customer needs and translate them into user stories. This includes identifying appropriate tools and methods to prioritise user stories and clearly articulating the distinction between user needs and desires. A degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field, such as Computer Science. Proven experience or acumen as a Developer. Strong understanding of agile software development methodologies. Proficiency in JavaScript, Vue.js, React,...

Lead Equipment Services Engineer – RTG

Closing date: 26/10/2026 View

Role area Engineering & Maintenance
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 3B Upper

About the role

The purpose of the role is to act as the single point of contact for all UAV operations performed on the Sellafield site, to become and maintain a Subject Matter Expert (SME) status within the UAV (Un Manned Arieal Vehicle) team within RTG. To enable the UAV scope to be delivered safely and to maintain the Emergency Duty Team (EDT) capability throughout the lifetime of the mission.

To deliver the overall targets set by the Head of Remote Technologies Group to meet the requirements of the site's health, safety and environmental regulatory framework in accordance with Sellafield Ltd policy, statutory and site licence requirements for EMI&T across a range of aerial equipment within Engineering & Maintenance. Utilise a broad understanding of other engineering disciplines and their role within engineering delivery, to support the Sellafield Site by keeping up to date with current and emerging technology and data collection payloads. Ensure the governing laws, regulations and standards are maintained across the site and to work with the UAV accountable manager to ensure operational delivery maintains set standards and is legal and compliant. Support and deliver consistent and uniform working arrangements under RTG direction for remotely operated equipment and the required processes and practices across the Sellafield estate using current Engineering and International Standards. Support the Principal Authority and Accountable Manager lead (where appropriate) in safety standdowns and regulatory interventions for UAV Equipment. To monitor trends and deviations from customer needs, then ensure that actions are in place, and are effective, in correcting any adverse trends or of normal condition. To maintain, develop, deploy UAV equipment and associated payloads and skills, innovation and best practice across the estate on a priority basis. To support delivery and effectively achieve challenging operational and business targets set within the business plan, including safety, quality and financial targets. Become an active member of the...

Lead Equipment Services Engineer VTSG

Closing date: 26/10/2026 View

Role area Engineering & Maintenance
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 3B Lower

About the role

VTSG is currently recruiting for two permanent positions. One role is available for immediate appointment, while the second position is expected to be filled at a later date. One position is supervisory and one is non-supervisory. Please indicate in your application which role you wish to be considered for. 1. Role Purpose To provide technical expertise and guidance in support of Engineering and Maintenance delivery for an assigned group of ventilation assets. Ensuring that the maintenance and operation of the system(s) are performed and managed safely in accordance with Site Licence Conditions and other pertinent regulations.

Non-Supervisory Deliverable Act as the Ventilation Asset Delivery Subject Matter Expert (SME), leading the development, implementation and governance of the VTSG Route Map and associated arrangements for: Asset Tag Hierarchy Asset Importance Categorisation System Health Reporting Asset Condition Assessment Asset Performance and Reliability Spares Management, Obsolescence and Single Point Vulnerabilities Asset Risk and Urgency Index (ARUI)Scoring Supervisory Deliverable Manage the VTSG Early Careers Ventilation Equipment Services Engineer team, which may include Degree Apprentices, Graduate Trainees, and newly appointed or developing Ventilation Equipment Services Engineers. Provide effective line management, coaching, mentoring and performance oversight, ensuring individuals are supported throughout their development and progression in accordance with LA 4.18, including the completion of training logbooks, mentor guides and other development requirements as appropriate. Key Deliverables Deliver Ventilation Equipment Services Engineer asset care activities in accordance with VTSG LA 4.22 and LA 4.9 across assigned facilities and areas of responsibility, including Annual Health Reporting, Asset Condition Assessments and LEV Testing. Implement site arrangements that meet regulatory requirements and relevant industry good practice for ventilation systems, as directed by the Principal Engineer and Leadership Team. Lead reviews and drive continuous improvement of processes and procedures in response to assurance findings, industry best practice and customer feedback. Act as an Intelligent Customer within the field of expertise, ensuring technical and engineering requirements are clearly defined, challenged and effectively managed. Lead technical investigations into system and facility issues, particularly recurring problems, coordinating...

Senior People Consultant

Closing date: 18/10/2026 View

Role area People
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 3B Upper
Closing date: 18/10/2026

About the role

The Senior People Consultant acts as a strategic liaison between the People Function and Enterprise areas , ensuring alignment of people strategies with organisational goals.

Lead and participate in year cyclical people-related activities. Advise managers on complex employee relations issues. Facilitate and support organisational design processes. Implement workforce planning and talent management initiatives. Support change management and organisational development activities. Analyse and present people metrics to inform decision-making. Ensure compliance with employment law and internal policies. Coach line managers on core people processes, instilling people management best practice to drive enhanced line manager capability, and escalating concerns, demand or opportunities. No budget responsibility unless managing people related budgets for a team. The job will influence and guide budget holders’ decisions relating to people-related cost effectiveness. The job may operate within a single Enterprise area or multiple areas. Level 5 CIPD Associate Diploma / Foundation or Undergraduate Degree in a related field or equivalent experience. CIPD Associate Accreditation or willingness to work towards. Knowledge and experience in Senior level human resource practices. Ability to apply commercial awareness / business acumen to strengthen business partnering capability. Organisational design methodology and practice. Strong understanding of HR principles, employment law and best practices. Ability to handle confidential information with professionalism and integrity. Problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Proficiency in HR information systems and reporting. Demonstrable experience of leading change initiatives. Experience of working in a trade union environment, developing and maintaining strong, collaborative trade union relationships. Coaching and mentoring training, experience, or qualifications. Leadership...

Closing date: 18/10/2026

Quality Lead

Closing date: 19/10/2026 View

Role area NEHSQ
Location Sellafield or Risley
Band 3A Lower
Closing date: 19/10/2026

About the role

To act as the quality lead for the assigned business area, supporting delivery of the Sellafield Ltd (SL) Operating Plan through the provision of professional Quality advice and services. This role enables the effective implementation of the Sellafield Ltd Quality Policy, strategy, and standards, ensuring consistent application and continuous improvement of performance.

Providing strategic and operational focus for Quality: Support strategic direction for Quality, by helping shape goals and objectives and raising standards to enable safe, affordable and accelerated delivery. Embed quality standards into management systems, aligning to prevailing obligations and industry good practice, to enable the effective integration of quality in the conduct of operations and projects. Creating a strong quality culture: Promote a strong quality culture, by building trusting relationships and ensuring visibility of quality in the field, to foster early engagement, collaboration and ownership of quality performance ‘in the line’. Deliver education and training programmes to build consistent understanding and leadership for quality. Lead stakeholder and regulator engagement on quality matters, to provide confidence, minimise risks and keep quality at the forefront of decision-making. Mobilising Quality Advice and Services: Position Quality as a trusted partner to drive consistent practices and right-first-time delivery. Establish and deploy resource plans and quality services across SL and the supply chain to meet evolving needs. Providing Oversight of Quality Performance: Provide oversight of quality performance through governance, assurance and management reviews. Enable informed decisions and actions, identifying and resolving quality issues and trends to mitigate risks and prevent recurrence. Working collaboratively to improve quality performance: Create a lean-empowered environment and establish improvement programmes for quality, based on context, risks and opportunities, to deliver business benefits. Leverage lessons learned and industry insight, and influence industry networks to enhance quality outcomes. Note: The accountabilities outlined...

Closing date: 19/10/2026

Engineering Manager

Closing date: 19/10/2026 View

Role area Engineering & Maintenance
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 3A Lower Upper
Closing date: 19/10/2026

About the role

To provide strategic leadership and direction for the safe, compliant and effective delivery of Engineering & Maintenance services across the Portfolio, including reliability engineering, plant engineering, maintenance, specialist equipment programmes, standards, assurance, optimisation, resourcing and continuous improvement. Accountable for the development and delivery of asset strategies that enable operational plants and projects to achieve business objectives safely, efficiently and cost effectively whilst meeting Company, Statutory, Regulatory, environmental permit and Site Licence requirements. Leads the integration and performance of Engineering & Maintenance functions, drives continuous improvement and operational excellence, and maintains governance and line management accountability.

Lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of engineering, maintenance, reliability and asset management strategies to support business objectives, site mission delivery and long-term asset performance. Provide strategic leadership and oversight of engineering, maintenance, reliability and specialist engineering services, ensuring safe, efficient and effective delivery that optimises asset performance, availability and business continuity. Drive continuous improvement in engineering and maintenance performance through maintenance optimisation, enhanced self-delivery, effective resource utilisation, operational excellence and the implementation of innovative engineering solutions. Ensure compliance with Site Licence Conditions, regulatory requirements, environmental permits, legal obligations and company standards through effective governance, assurance, audit, investigation and corrective action arrangements. Lead the management of engineering, nuclear and conventional safety, ensuring risks, hazards, engineering authority requirements and safety case obligations are understood, managed and continuously improved. Lead engineering and maintenance resource planning, workforce capability development, succession planning and budget management, ensuring sustainable delivery capability and achievement of financial and performance targets. Act as the technical authority and intelligent customer for significant engineering programmes, projects and specialist services, ensuring safe, timely and cost-effective delivery aligned to business requirements. Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing organisation through effective leadership, performance management, coaching, mentoring and competency assurance, promoting professional standards and knowledge sharing. Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, regulators, engineering authorities and customers, providing leadership, influencing strategic decision-making and driving collaboration across the enterprise. Undertake any additional duties commensurate with the role, capability and competence to...

Closing date: 19/10/2026

Head of Corporate Communication

Closing date: 18/10/2026 View

Role area Stakeholder Relations
Location Sellafield West Cumbria
Band 3A Upper

About the role

The Head of Communication leads the development and delivery of effective integrated communication and engagement strategies that inform, engage and inspire internal and external audiences to support organisational goals. The job exists to enhance organisational reputation, strengthen culture, build trust with stakeholders, ensure employees, partners and the public understand and support organisational priorities, while managing reputational risk.

Lead the creation and implementation of effective and efficient organisation‑wide communication strategies to inform, engage and influence internal and external audiences in line with business goals and objectives. Ensure close collaboration with the NDA group to align communication messaging and priorities. Shape, govern and protect key organisational messaging and narrative to ensure clarity, consistency and alignment across all communication channels to support the delivery of organisational goals and objectives. Oversee internal, external and corporate communication planning, channels and content to deliver accurate, timely and accessible information to diverse audiences. Engage, and advise senior leaders on communication approaches to build visibility, trust, credibility and stakeholder confidence. Direct crisis, issues and incident communication activity to enable business continuity, mitigate operational, regulatory or reputational risk. Commission, plan and evaluate communication campaigns and insight‑led activity to measure impact and support continuous improvement. Engage with internal stakeholders, partners, media, and external bodies to ensure communication activity is integrated, targeted and aligned with organisational needs. Lead, develop and inspire the Communications team to build professional capability, strengthen standards and ensure high‑quality delivery. Collaborate across all communication disciplines within Corporate Affairs (internal, external and corporate) to ensure coherent, insight‑driven communication planning. Use data analysis and audience insight to support evidence-based decision‑making, targeting and communication strategy development. Authorities: Lead the operational delivery of corporate communications for Sellafield Ltd. Represent business in key external forums. Decision-making authority on company messaging to internal and or external...

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