Plant Facing Technical Managers oversee and enable a team of Plant Facing Technical Advisors, who provide technical assessment and justification, underpinning the operation of plants, processes and facilities, ensuring they are technically viable. They ensure Best Available Techniques (BAT) are deployed and maintain compliance with regulatory and safety requirements. Plant Facing Technical Managers themselves provide expert advice, guidance and training on technical matters closely aiding front line support to projects and programmes site wide.
Effectively manage a team to provide technical support that enable the operation of plants and processes, implement improvements within the area they support, and allow decision making that is technically viable, sufficiently underpinned, and within regulatory requirement. Provide specialist advice, guidance and training on technical matters closely aiding front line support to projects and programmes site wide. Responsible for the development and maintenance of Technology Road Maps (TRMs), TBURD, and a robust Technical baseline. Enable the safe delivery of technical deliverables to cost and schedule, including technical reports, optioneering assessments, process documentation, and proposals of effective and appropriate solutions to technical challenges. Ensure that the technical work conforms to the correct levels of governance and provide technical advice to relevant governance bodies. Drive the development of new process and practice in line with safety case, environmental cases, authorisation compliance and product quality requirements relevant to the areas supported. Line management of Plant Facing Technical Advisors. Setting performance goals and standards of behaviour, active management of SQEP/training, ensuring attendance and absences are appropriately managed, conducting regular Check-in conversations and ensuring well-being of team members. Capture, preserve and share relevant knowledge to ensure the plants and projects have ongoing access to the best available scientific knowledge and experience. Proactive management of team safety issues ensuring all are working in compliance with site health and safety procedures. Ensure adequate consideration of nuclear, conventional, industrial, radiological and environmental safety within technical outputs, by ensuring...
The Cyber Process Support plays a key role in supporting the effective development, implementation, and continuous improvement of cyber security processes and governance frameworks across Sellafield Ltd. The role focuses on coordinating process activities, maintaining accurate and auditable documentation, and supporting the consistent application of cyber policies, standards, and procedures across IT, OT, and supply chain environments. Operating within a highly regulated and safety critical environment, the postholder ensures that cyber processes are well structured, repeatable, and aligned with organisational risk, compliance, and operational requirements. They support management in maintaining a robust and scalable governance model that enables effective control of cyber risk and supports audit and assurance readiness.
Support the coordination, documentation, and continuous improvement of cyber security processes to ensure consistency, repeatability, and effectiveness across the organisation. Maintain and update key process artefacts, including policies, standards, procedures, process maps, and supporting documentation, ensuring accuracy and alignment with organisational requirements. Assist in embedding cyber governance processes across IT, OT, and supply chain domains, promoting consistent understanding and application. Act as a liaison between the cyber security function and internal stakeholders to support the implementation and adoption of cyber processes and standards. Assist in the coordination and tracking of process-related actions, improvements, and change initiatives, ensuring progress is monitored and recorded. Support the monitoring and reporting of process effectiveness through defined KPIs, metrics, and dashboards, highlighting trends or areas for improvement. Facilitate cyber governance and process forums by preparing materials, capturing outputs, and ensuring actions are tracked to completion. Provide support in mapping cyber processes to regulatory, compliance, and industry frameworks (e.g.NISR, SyAPs, CAF), ensuring traceability and alignment. Assist in preparing documentation and evidence to support internal audits, assurance reviews, and regulatory inspections, ensuring process-related evidence is complete and auditable. Support the Cyber Process Manager in identifying process gaps, inefficiencies, or inconsistencies, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. Contribute to the development and delivery of process awareness materials, guidance, and communications to support adoption across the organisation. Budget Responsibility: None. Line Management: None (may mentor junior support staff or apprentices). Decision-Making Authority: Operates under guidance;...
The Safety Case Management Lead (SCML) will provide senior technical leadership and direction to a Value Stream/business area, working at a programme level, on the strategy for the development, implementation, maintenance, review and withdrawal of the Nuclear Safety Case(s) in their Value Stream/business area in accordance with Safety Case process arrangements, relevant legislation, Relevant Good Practice and business needs.
Provide strategic technical leadership on behalf of the Safety Case Owner and Programme Lead for managing nuclear safety cases to ensure Nuclear Safety and legal compliance are maintained and to enable the achievement of programmatic objectives and milestones within their area. Provide high-quality safety case advice and support on strategic business matters on behalf of the Safety Case Owner and Programme Lead to all internal and external stakeholders across the business area to ensure Nuclear Safety is adequately considered in programmatic decision making. Senior leader of the Safety Case Managers and Safety Case Advisors in their area to provide senior line management and strategic direction to achieve SL business objectives, working with the Safety Case Central Capability to address long term business resourcing and support flexible/mobile use of resource. Influence positive action and lead on change associated with improvements and innovation and proactively seek and apply learning within their business area to ensure continuous learning and improvement associated with Safety Case Management within their programmatic area and across the broader enterprise. Maintains a good awareness of business and profession drivers in order to ensure Safety Case Management approaches align with current business needs, context and strategic drivers. Challenging approaches when necessary to achieve a Safety Case that best enables the mission. Assists in the development, maintenance, assurance and optimisation of SL’s Nuclear Safety Case arrangements to ensure that arrangements reflect industry relevant good practice and are flexible enough to enable the mission going forward...
The Radiometrics Technical Representative is primarily responsible for managing the provision of high-risk goods and services to underpin the delivery of Radiometric Services to the Sellafield Site. They also support workscope management of the Radiometric Systems Group (RSG) Project. Deliverables Carry out duties of Technical Representative with external contractors who deliver maintenance services on behalf of Sellafield Ltd (SL) (oversight and direction). Ensuring goods and services meet requirements of SL standards and procedures. Identifying and selecting compliant and efficient procurement routes for order placement. Compliance with Sellafield Site management arrangements, standards and supporting instructions. Management of spares and repairs involving external contractors. Demonstrating compliance with local management arrangements and UK standards. Preparation of scope documents, cost forecasts and variance reports on behalf of the workscope manager.
Higher level qualification in an engineering or scientific subject or relevant engineering and maintenance experience. Experienced Technical Representative managing contractors and suppliers. Knowledge and experience of site procurement processes for demanding high risk goods and services. Demonstrable knowledge of SAP including goods, services and cost reporting. Prior experience in an engineering and maintenance role. Knowledge of SL Enterprise Systems and other IT applications. Higher level qualification in an engineering or scientific subject or relevant engineering and maintenance experience. Proven experience acting as a Technical Representative, providing oversight, direction, and assurance of contractor-delivered maintenance activities. Strong capability in managing relationships with suppliers and service providers to achieve safe and efficient delivery. Competent user of SAP for goods receipt, service entry, cost monitoring, reporting, and maintenance-related activities. Effective communicator, able to engage with engineers, contractors, suppliers, procurement teams, and management. Chartered Institute of Purchase and Supply Level 4. Evidence of good team working and interpersonal skills. Evidence of problem solving and diagnostic skills. Open VN Number of Vacancies: 1 Contact/s: Grant Anderson The interviews for this vacancy are expected to take place on 12th October 2026. 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 (9-4) GCSE in English Language, Maths & Science/IT...
The Release and Deployment Manager is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the Release and Deployment process and is responsible for the application, effectiveness and efficiency of this process, governing the standards that Sellafield ICT teams and IT Service Provider(s) must adhere to. They ensure that the introduction of new services into the Sellafield estate do so with minimal negative impact and maximum positive impact to existing services and users and are accountable for effective planning and communication of planned implementations. Reporting into the Release and Deployment Lead, this role delivers the day-to-day Release Management responsibilities as well as providing guidance and support to the Release and Deployment Analysts. Sellafield Ltd Information Services Organisation (ISO) own all ITSM processes. This role will support the Release and Deployment Management Process across the entire ICT organisation, including suppliers (10+) who will need to integrate into it and report any deviations accordingly. The main purpose of the Release and Deployment Management process is to manage the planning, building, testing and deployment (or retirement) of all Release units for an IT service, to deliver new or improved functionality as required by Sellafield Ltd whilst protecting the live services. As the Release and Deployment process is entirely new for Sellafield Ltd, it will be crucial to help establish the process, prove the benefits and expand the scope of the Release process to cover more releases over time, adding additional benefits.
General Provide coaching, mentoring and support to Release and Deployment Analysts. Release and Deployment Management Responsible for ensuring that all IT teams follow the Release Deployment Management process and escalate non-conformity, including: Validating Release and Deployment Management plans. Building Release Packages. Confirming testing completion (working closely with the Testing Services team). Deployment of the Release from the Definitive Media Library (DML) or equivalent. Releases have a planned support model (working closely with Service Design and Transition). Transition to the planned support model takes place (working closely with Service Design and Transition). Facilitate and Chair Release “Go/No Go” calls, where applicable. Maintain quality checks on releases. Coordinate releases to ensure that the integrity of all environments is protected and that the correct components are released, according to a documented implementation plan. Ensure appropriate milestones are met and coordinate release sign off. Facilitate release checkpoint meetings. Identify and recommend service improvements. Provide management information on releases to clients and senior management as required. Identify and provide training to improve understanding of Release process. Provide input for the release policy based on ITIL principles. Log and maintain release/parent change records. Update Master Release Calendar and Change Records to be included in the Forward Schedule of Change. Gain release stakeholder approval. Ensure inputs into the release process are reviewed and stored in a central repository i.e. Release Handover Notes and Test Closure Reports and...
The Head of Technical & Technology provides the underpinning, direction and leadership for all short, medium and long term technical and technological activities within the Portfolio. It sets the technology standards and undertakes the technical assurance for the Portfolio to maximise both customer value and return on investment for the business. Technical activities span research and development to the full breadth of Sellafield facilities and flowsheets. This role also develops, demonstrate and deploys new innovative technologies to meet the capabilities defined by the Head of Strategy and Portfolio; thus the role encompasses the full range of science, engineering, digital and AI capabilities. They are the technical and technological ambassador for the Portfolio, promoting, representing and defending the direction undertaken by the organisation into National and International stakeholders.
Acts as Technical Authority for the Portfolio and responsible for Portfolio Technical Assurance & Governance. Define and implement effective technical arrangements in the Portfolio. Develop and maintain the technical baseline and roadmap that underpins the site strategy, and the technical underpinning for the flowsheet in conjunction with the other Heads of Technical and Technology where required. Develop the technology needs for the Portfolio, by capturing operational views for both today and the future, and work with the CTO and the other Heads of Technical and Technology to deliver solutions that meet these needs collaboratively across the business. Maturing and developing technology and technical solutions through the Technology Readiness Levels to ensure it integrates with other systems. Ensure facility processes are within the Operating Envelope. Lead and provide a service of plant facing technical support. Underpin Technical decisions with data and subject matter expertise to support the Portfolio decision calendar. Facility level scenario planning and technical modelling to understand if the strategic objective of the facilities can be delivered. Act as and manage the Intelligent Customer(s) for the Portfolio’s technical activities. Own Portfolio Technical Risks on the Site Risk Register. Maintaining technical standards, delivery quality, maintenance of technical capability and contribution to the wider goals of the Group Job Family. Making recommendations on technology matters, including recommendations to stop or formally review the status of technology development that give concern. Providing leadership, health, safety and career development...
The Head of Strategy, Business Planning, Technical and Technology supports the Portfolio Director in providing the underpinning, direction and leadership for all short, medium and long term strategic, planning, technical and technological activities within the Portfolio. The role holder is accountable for development of the Portfolio delivery strategy and maintaining a coherent portfolio delivery plan that aligns to the Enterprise strategic objectives whilst prioritising available resource and funding to maximise delivery of agreed business benefits. They are also responsible for the technical underpinning of this plan, and the plan for technology improvements that enhance the operational performance of the portfolios; setting both the current technology baseline, future technology direction and undertaking the technical assurance for the Portfolio to maintain our credibility and maximise both customer value and return on investment for the business. They are the Strategic, Scientific and Technological ambassador for the Portfolio. Promoting, representing and defending the direction undertaken by the organisation into NDA, National and International stakeholders. They influence key, strategic discussions, foster external partnerships and enhance trust in our organisation. The role also co-ordinates with other Heads with responsibility for Strategy, Business Planning, Technology and Technical activities across organisation.
Ensures the portfolio delivery plans remain strategically aligned to the strategic objectives recommending [Strategic or Tactical] interventions to recover the plan when off track. Establish and operate a fit-for-purpose portfolio governance framework, including but not limited to: leading portfolio reviews and prioritisation; assurance to the Change Control Board on Baseline Plan Change Control Requests; assessing new initiatives for strategic fit, affordability, and benefit contribution; manage interdependencies, portfolio budget management, and portfolio resource allocation in line with Portfolio priorities and strategic outcomes; and oversee benefits identification, tracking, and realisation. Provide support to the Strategy & Business Planning directorate (S&BP) to resolve any disconnects / conflicts with site strategic coherence position In conjunction with S&BP develop a decision landscape that identifies the need for developing new or revised strategies and for implementing strategy into plans, including capability gaps, to achieve the desired enterprise outcomes. Provide portfolio directorate input to support the development of the enterprise delivery plan and ensure the outyears model is reflective of the required future scope to deliver the site plan. Acts as Technical Authority for the Portfolio and responsible for Portfolio Technical Assurance & Governance. Define and implement effective technical arrangements in the Portfolio. Develop and maintain the technical baseline and roadmap that underpins the site strategy, and the technical underpinning for the flowsheet in conjunction with the other Heads of Technical and Technology where required. Develop the technology needs for the Portfolio, by capturing operational views for both...
To serve as the lead contact for all quality-related matters within the Sellafield Enterprise Management System (SEMS) Programme Workstreams. The role ensures that quality services and advice are effectively delivered, and that all activities are defined, planned, and executed in line with the Sellafield Ltd (SL) quality policy, SEMS strategy and Management System arrangements and standards. The Quality Manager champions a culture of safe and predictable delivery through quality assurance, and continuous improvement. A key part of the role is supporting quality programme delivery through working collaboratively with the different delivery workstream, process community, supply chain and programme team to ensure alignment and coordination of approaches. Through ongoing engagement with the workstreams the Programme Integrators primary responsibility is to ensure that all scope being delivered through the various programme workstreams is fully aligned, ensuring key dependencies and interactions are clear and managed accordingly to mitigate delivery risks or delays.
Establishing quality standards and management systems: Establish and maintain management systems aligned to prevailing obligations and stakeholder expectations, to enable the effective delivery of business objectives. Promote the effective application of quality management systems within SL and the supply chain, and ensure quality standards are effectively communicated and implemented. Lead the integration and alignment of programme delivery across the various programme workstreams and across multiple different delivery modes and supply chain partners. Enhancing culture and focus for Quality: Strengthen the quality culture by engaging with workstreams, delivering targeted education and training, and ensuring visibility of quality in the field, to build understanding and leadership for quality. Develop local plans and schedules across the workstreams, translating the SEMS Strategy into specific actionable quality objectives, with consideration of context, risks and opportunities. Promote early engagement and collaboration, a maintaining active dialogue across workstreams and external stakeholders (including regulators) to ensure quality remains central to decision-making. Support the Business Change Manager with the alignment, tracking and reporting of SEMS enabled benefits from workstream delivery. Support programme stakeholder engagement through interfacing with key stakeholders across multiple delivery areas and building key relationships with stakeholders, customers and Process Owners/ SMEs to support effective collaboration. Mobilising Quality advice and services: Deploy quality advice and services across area(s) of responsibility, including ‘bought in’ SEMS supply chain resources and other internal resource partners (i.e. ISO), to enable right-first-time (RFT) delivery. Ensure that intelligent customer responsibilities are fulfilled for...
The role is that of CS&A Independent Structural Assessment Capability Lead. This is a Design Capability role in a technical specialist area to lead a structural assessment delivery team and provide expert advice and guidance. The candidate will be required to lead a team of CS&A Assessors with responsibility for Delivering Independent Structural Assessment in accordance with SLSP 1.02.09.01. Ensuring that the appropriate engineering processes are developed and maintained for Independent Structural Assessment. Undertaking review of CS&A analysis and design to ensure the structural design philosophies and concepts are well-reasoned, fit for purpose and safe. Ensuring that review are trended to maintain the quality of the engineering solutions produced by the Engineering Design teams. Where appropriate, guiding the development of suitable and sufficient fit-for-purpose solutions. Where appropriate, providing consultancy support, and advice. Successful role holder will be expected to work effectively at both Risley / Sellafield sites to be effective in delivery of their role and responsibilities. This is a delivery role that falls within EDLP7. This role requires the candidate to lead and manage the Independent Assessment of CS&A designs and ensure they are safe, legally compliant, fit for purpose design solutions that meet functional and safety requirements. The responsibilities, accountabilities and authorities for a Design Capability Lead can be found in ED15.
Demonstrable experience working in roles where knowledge of structural design is a key attribute. Demonstrable experience of working collaboratively to deliver successful projects and work packages. Demonstrable knowledge and experience of ANSYS, LS-DYNA, response spectrum analysis, SSI / SSSI, finite element analysis techniques and appropriate validation and verification techniques Demonstrable knowledge and experience of application of SL Engineering Standards for seismic analysis and design Considerable knowledge of civil and structural engineering relating to nuclear structures both new and existing – covering analysis tools, seismic analysis, and fault load scenarios for complex designs. Experience of producing Impact Assessments including R3 methods Knowledge of SL plants and SEMS processes relevant to structural design / analysis / ISA Assessment methodology. Comprehensive and detailed understanding of legislation, regulations and standards relevant to structural design and analysis. Experience of producing structural substantiation documentation and producing engineering judgements Knowledge of temporary works design and innovative construction/dismantling methodologies. Education – Academic & Professional Qualifications MEng or equivalent in relevant discipline Chartered status with relevant Professional Institution Actively pursuing Fellowship of relevant discipline Professional Institution Meeting the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of their Professional Institution Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experience of resolving technical queries and challenges with Regulators Open VN Number of Vacancies: 1 Contact/s: Mark Offord The interviews for this vacancy are expected to take place on 2nd October 2026. ASW’s may have the right...
The Head of Performance Improvement is responsible for the delivery of the Integrated Performance Improvement (PI) programme for Sellafield Ltd. They establish a prioritised approach to identifying and analysing gaps in performance in order to prevent loss and add value through learning from experience. The role provides leadership of the Sellafield Ltd Performance Improvement team including the Programme Leads for the Corrective Action Programme (CAP), Operating Experience, Trending, Analysis as well as the Enterprise Investigation Team and the Site Sentencing Authority.
Define the Sellafield Ltd integrated approach for Performance Improvement (PI) across the Enterprise, addressing the complex and diverse needs of each individual business areas. Lead the development and consistent implementation of a standard PI model and fit for purpose arrangements to enable Sellafield Ltd to comply with their statutory and business obligations (e.g. Nuclear Site License Condition 7, LRQA, EH&S legislation, NISR, IRR, NDA, WANO PO&Cs etc). Develop, implement and maintain the organisational model for the Performance Improvement capability, including organisational structure, definition of PI roles, and technical competency framework. This includes development and deployment of PI resources according to overall business priorities. Provide overall leadership and management of the Performance Improvement function, including: Corrective Action Programme (CAP) – ensuring a risk-based approach to reporting, screening (sentencing), investigating and correcting of issues. This includes all issues impacting safety, reliability or performance. Trending and self-assessment – ensuring that event data is subject to routine trending and analysis in order to identify underlying weaknesses and prioritise opportunities to close gaps, make improvements, and establish sustainable solutions for the business. Operating Experience (OE) – ensuring that key learning opportunities derived from internal and external OE are shared and used to prevent or minimise similar causes occurring and avoid making similar mistakes, and to drive continuous improvement for safety, quality and effectiveness. Enterprise Investigation; Providing support to the business through leadership and delivery of Board of Inquiry and Management Investigations into more serious events and those with complex organisational, behavioural...
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