The Corporate Lead for NMAS provides support to the Head of SSQ for the delivery of Nuclear Material Accountancy and Safeguards Function for the Sellafield Site Licence Company. The role delivers the requirements of the Site’s nuclear material accountancy and safeguards system and is accountable for the issuing of reports under Nuclear Safeguards Regulations 2019. The role requires an in-depth knowledge of nuclear material management principles and practices used across a wide range of Sellafield plants to ensure Safeguards regulatory compliance is maintained. The role holder will be required to interface with a range of internal and external stakeholders/regulators to ensure the NMAS requirements are embedded into new processes. This role requires DV clearance.
Process Owner for SEMS section 3.4.8 “Nuclear Material Accountancy and Safeguards” (SLMS section 2.12). Nuclear Site Licence condition owner for LC4 “Restrictions on Nuclear Matter on site”. Manage and develop a team of 20 people delivering safeguards regulatory and Commercial reports with a budget of ~£1.5 million. Lead a team providing expert advice and guidance on issues appropriate to area of responsibility, ensuring relevant stakeholders receive timely warnings / advice of NMAS risks / opportunities for the company. Lead discussions and influence negotiations with external bodies, including customers, regulators and Government bodies, relevant to the area of responsibility. Facilitate discussions between IAEA and ONR on the provision of Agency Safeguards inspections. Leads identification and mitigation of NMAS risks and opportunities. Leading a team providing expert advice to new projects to ensure the nuclear materials control, accountancy and safeguards arrangements are designed into new builds and properly implemented. Train, advise and guide Nuclear Material Custodians on NMAS standards and arrangements, and industry good practice to enable performance and drive improvements. Extensive knowledge of Safeguards regulations or other highly regulated discipline. Demonstrable knowledge of supporting international regulators in delivering equipment installation, operations and maintenance. Proven experience in delivering regulatory/customers requirements. Provides expert advice to stakeholders, such as Regulators, Commercial customers and UK and international industry forums. Develops and maintains relationship with senior business management to promote standards. In-depth knowledge of inspection and audit across a range of site...
Schedulers deliver safe and effective support activities as part of the Integrated Work Management team; including controlling the inputs to, develop, maintain, and distribute the integrated schedule, working with the required stakeholders to maximise safety, quality and efficient delivery of work. They play a key role in supporting the safe efficient operation of nuclear facilities. Working closely with a variety of teams and stakeholders you will support development of an integrated schedule, ensuring visibility of all work scope across the facility. Key challenges include maintaining complex schedules, responding to operational demands. Working with the required stakeholders to maximise efficient delivery of work. Operations Support Team Members play a key role in supporting the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities. Working closely with operational teams, you will help to implement and maintain essential processes to ensure adherence to strict regulatory and safety standards. This job involves providing technical and logistical support to resolving operational issues. Key challenges include adapting to changing regulations, managing multiple tasks simultaneously and supporting continuous improvements. Both roles face the challenges of: Adapting to changing operational and regulatory requirements. Managing multiple priorities and activities simultaneously. Supporting continuous improvement while maintaining compliance and operational standards. All Scheduler & Operations Support roles are plant-facing positions and require on-site presence to effectively support facility operations and stakeholders.
Scheduler Promote and support overall nuclear safety (along with all other areas of safety-conventional, industrial, radiological, environmental) by coordinating multiple work streams to produce an integrated schedule ensuring all work activities are to site standards, policies, processes, and procedures. Contribute to the continuous improvement programme, governance and control framework to ensure safe delivery of integrated activities against defined standards, company objectives and key performance indicators. Analyse and produce a logical sequenced schedule for delivery; minimise operational impact and maximise resource utilisation to support the facility and value stream goals and commitments. Provide optimum resolution for identified critical interactions and interfaces. Maintain data integrity and implement quality checks for accuracy and improvement. Interpret, generate and distribute performance reports to identify and implement improvements. Support effective delivery by acting as secretary for key integrated work management meetings. In addition to the above, job holders are expected to fulfil other duties and tasks that are commensurate with their grade assigned to them by management to ensure efficient operations and the success of the team / organisation. Operations Support Team Member 1 Promote and support nuclear, conventional, radiological, environmental and security safety by maintaining a safe operating envelope through ensuring all work activities adhere to site standards, policies, processes, and procedures. Deliver and undertake nominated or key operational support jobs to meet the facility / facilities or value stream goals and commitments (typical jobs are identified within the dimensions section of this job profile). Contribute...
The Head of Safety Management and Standards sets the enterprise strategy, governance and assurance framework for industrial and radiological safety, ensuring Sellafield Ltd maintains compliant and robust arrangements that support safe mission delivery. They provide specialist leadership and oversight to ensure safety risks are controlled, regulatory expectations are met and performance improves, holding functional authority for safety standards and performance insight. Working alongside the Head of Core SHEQ Services, the postholder provides technical advice, specialist safety support services and expert advice to operational delivery organisations and represents Sellafield Ltd as the senior safety authority in engagements with regulators, the NDA and industry bodies. They also provide safety governance and assurance to the SHEQ Director, supporting their executive and Board‑level accountabilities for safe site operation and effective stewardship of industrial and radiological safety risks.
Set the enterprise‑wide strategic approach for industrial and radiological safety, ensuring robust, compliant and forward‑looking arrangements. Own and shape the Sellafield Safety Policy. Lead and manage specialist SHEQ safety disciplines, including COMAH, Occupational Hygiene, Industrial/Conventional Safety and Radiological Protection, ensuring expert capability and technical standards. Direct specialist safety support and advisory services, through the Head of Core SHEQ Services, ensuring operational delivery organisations receive authoritative technical advice and guidance. Provide enterprise‑level safety leadership and oversight, challenging and intervening where necessary to prevent degradation of safety standards. Act as Process Owner for key safety domains (e.g., Conventional H&S, Radiological Protection, Fire Protection, Management of Contractors), including associated Licence Condition arrangements. Maintain continued ISO 45001certification. Own and actively manage corporate‑level safety risks, ensuring robust mitigation, escalation and clear enterprise visibility. In collaboration with the Head of Regulatory Interface and Nuclear Safety, Lead enterprise‑level safety regulatory engagement to ensure proportionate and effective interactions with regulators and government bodies. Maintain horizon scanning for conventional and radiological safety to influence regulation development and ensure SL implementation. Benchmark safety arrangements and performance against national and international good practice, driving the adoption of emerging standards and insights. Strengthen the organisation’s safety culture by shaping and embedding ‘fit for context’ safety practices across the enterprise, ensuring expectations are clearly understood, consistently applied, and reinforced through the SHEQ Lead Team’s collective leadership. Deliver SHEQ improvement objectives and targets, ensuring effective corrective action programmes are identified and implemented based on...
The ICT Operations Engineer at Sellafield plays a pivotal role in managing and optimising the technical operations within their designated Service Delivery pillar. This position ensures that the Service Delivery systems and components are aligned with business capabilities and Sellafield’s ICT Digital Strategy, providing essential technology solutions that support and drive the achievement of business objectives. The role demands a comprehensive understanding of the Service Delivery pillar components to effectively manage asset lifecycle, operations, risk, and business and supplier relationships. The ICT Operations Engineer plays a vital role in maintaining the stability, performance, and security of enterprise applications throughout their lifecycle. Operating in a technically complex environment, the role is responsible for third-line support, incident resolution, and proactive management of applications from deployment through to retirement. The engineer works closely with service owners, developers, and infrastructure teams to ensure applications are optimised, patched, and aligned with evolving business needs. Key challenges include managing legacy systems alongside modern platforms, ensuring minimal disruption during upgrades or transitions, and maintaining robust documentation and compliance. The role demands a high level of technical expertise, problem-solving capability, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement in a fast-paced, service-driven environment.
Ensuring ICT solutions are fully leveraged, compliant, and cost-effective, within your allocated portfolio, to maximise return on investment & reducing technology debt. Ensuring fit for purpose. Overseeing the day-to-day operations of ICT systems, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance to meet the needs of the Sellafield Mission, including care and maintenance of systems through to decommissioning. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver and maintain robust ICT solutions that align with Sellafield's strategic objectives and regulatory requirements, through participation and contribution to relevant Application, Delivery and Domain Governance. Proactively monitoring system performance and security, identifying potential issues, and implementing timely solutions to mitigate risks and ensure compliance with industry standards. Providing expert technical support and guidance to internal & external stakeholders, ensuring that all ICT-related queries and issues are resolved efficiently and effectively. To include Risk, Business Continuity, DR and Information Security. Contributing to the continuous improvement of ICT processes and practices, leveraging the latest technologies and methodologies to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness. Liaising with Vendors and ICT Category management, for appropriate and best value license agreements in line with the vendors terms and conditions. Approving of financial requests from Business Support for any licensing & Maintenance Support renewals. Providing second level specialist support and guidance to colleagues across the Sellafield business (including audit) and support teams, to ensure internal systems work efficiently and meet business needs. Maintaining comprehensive documentation of ICT systems, processes, and procedures to support knowledge sharing...
Provides professional advice and guidance on environmental protection and compliance matters. This job ensures that operational, regulatory and organisational environmental standards are consistently met, contributing to the safe and responsible operation of facilities and projects in the nuclear industry throughout their entire lifecycle from construction and operation to decommissioning.
Environmental management and advice: Provide professional advice to management and staff on environmental matters, including interpretation and application of environmental permits and regulations, to support informed decision making and environmental protection. Provide input into the development of Sellafield Ltd (SL) environmental arrangements and standards to ensure effective environmental protection and compliance. Environmental Impact Assessment: Prepare technical reports (e.g. BAT Assessments and Environment Cases) to identify, evaluate and mitigate potential environmental impacts, ensuring relevant authorisations and consents are obtained, to enable new projects or modifications to existing facilities. Audit and Inspection: Undertake inspections, observations, and assurance activities (including oversight and assurance of the management system) to verify compliance with environmental standards and behaviours, and to identify environmental performance gaps and opportunities. Support the duty holder in the investigation of incidents and events, ensuring corrective actions are taken and learning opportunities identified and shared. Data analysis, and performance reporting: Review and interpret environmental metrics and analyse data to identify performance trends, providing reports to management to inform and drive improvement, and to the regulator to maintain compliance. Stakeholder engagement: Collaborate with facility operations teams, project teams and contractors to ensure environmental standards and expectations are integrated into design, construction, and operational activities. Act as a point of contact for all environment-related queries and support the Environment/EHS Manager and Duty Holders in interactions with external regulators and stakeholders (e.g. Environment Agency, LRQA), agreeing appropriate and proportionate ways to improve environmental performance and minimise regulatory risk...
To provide front line specialist technical support service and guidance to Engineering and Maintenance (E&M) delivering the objectives of the E&M Strategy and ensuring compliance across all site licence conditions, NDA specifications and corporate strategies.
Use and maintain specialist systems, programmes, and procedures in line with agreed policies and practices. Co-ordinate and maintain data records and undertake data analysis, identifying trends to contribute to internal decision making and ensure compliance with site processes and standards. Where appropriate, assist in the training and development of others to appropriate standards. Ensure process adherence and increased data quality through the usage of the enterprise systems to aid decision making through engagement, influencing, and supporting individuals or teams to understand the benefits and standards. Promote a positive customer experience, interacting and influencing stakeholders, resolve issues and problems or refer more complex issues appropriately. Support the identification, collation, and implementation of improvements for continuous development of processes to improve performance and/or practices. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to advise and challenge individuals proposed decision making using technical knowledge. Ability to deal with internal and external stakeholders at all levels within the organisation. Ability to manage and prioritise own workload to meet business needs. Team player who can work flexibly as part of an enterprise-wide support function. Experience of managing, maintaining and assuring the quality of asset, engineering or technical data within business information systems, including the application of data standards, governance requirements and information quality principles to support effective business decision-making. Experience working with asset management, engineering, maintenance or operational stakeholders to gather, validate, improve and communicate asset information, providing advice, guidance and constructive...
The Safe Systems of Work Controller coordinates the work release on behalf of the authorising authority based upon its degree of complexity and risk/categorisation. They are responsible for centrally controlling and maintaining oversight of work activities within the facility, building or plant area, releasing work in line with the integrated schedule.
Promote nuclear, conventional, radiological, environmental and security safety against work activities ensuring standards are upheld. Maintain oversight, co-ordination, and release of authorised centrally controlled work within a facility, building or plant area for the work period, including an understanding of the plant status and integrated plan. Understand and ensure any pre-requisite plant controls are in place for safe and effective delivery. Coordinate and manage isolations, performing independent verification of those placed under an Isolation & Test Certificate. Perform a workface check of high hazard/complex work to ensure work is being co-ordinated in a safe manner, the conditions of the Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) are being complied with. Effectively discharge duties to ensure accountabilities are handed over effectively, confirming plant has been left in an agreed and acceptable condition. Undertake self-assessment and assurance activities to confirm standards for central release/control meet the requirements of Sellafield processes and practices. In addition to the above, role holders are expected to fulfil other duties and tasks that are commensurate with their grade assigned to them by management to ensure efficient operations and the success of the team/organisation. Authorities: The Safe System of Work Controller is authorised to request suspension of any activity which appears unsafe or not in accordance with approved programmes or procedures. The Safe System of Work Controller has the authority to refuse the release of work or pause work if the plant conditions and/or interactions detrimentally impact the safety of...
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...
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 ServiceNow Administrator is responsible for providing general support, administration and maintenance of the Sellafield ServiceNow platform and its associated applications. This encompasses reviewing, testing and implementing low complexity tooling changes as a result of service requests and changes along with overseeing the implementation of higher complexity changes performed by an external systems integration partner. Reporting into the IT Service Management Tooling Lead, this role also works closely with the Enterprise Architecture and APM teams defining the ITSM portfolio and strategy, along with the external systems integration partner and the ServiceNow vendor. The role of ServiceNow Administrator was previously performed external to Sellafield ISO by a prime external supplier. As a result of the PICTS Programme this capability now sits within SL ISO. In order to ensure this new role is a success, the ServiceNow Administration team will need to deliver several key outcomes: Working with the rest of Sellafield ICT/ISO, establish clear boundaries and responsibilities between the ServiceNow Administration team and other teams such as Enterprise Architecture, and APM, as well as the External Systems Vendor Partner Onboard the new supply chain to ServiceNow Support Change Management and the APM team in assessing changes which could impact ServiceNow Implement and test a defined set of low complexity changes to ServiceNow Define the scope of medium complexity changes to ServiceNow for implementation by a Systems Integration Partner Provide input into the scoping/definition of high complexity changes to ServiceNow Provide day-to-day relationship management and co-ordination of activity being performed by the Systems Integration Partner Plan and perform acceptance tests for changes made by the Systems Integration Partner Support/perform ServiceNow regression testing because of complex changes and upgrades
Provide general support, administration and maintenance of ServiceNow platform and its associated applications Manage the ServiceNow Administrations’ ticket queue and update tickets to demonstrate progress against requested actions Monitor health and usage of ServiceNow and its applications Configure and maintain SLAs and KPIs, catalogue items and their associated workflows, along with other system objects Create ServiceNow reports and dashboards, working closely with the IT Service Reporting and Measurement team Act as the gatekeeper for ServiceNow’s integrity and ability to be smoothly and quickly upgraded in line with Software as Service (SaaS) principles Implement assigned ServiceNow configuration changes within a timely manner and following the agreed work instructions Build a strong working relationship with key contacts within the Systems Integration Partner and keep regular contact e.g., chair daily/weekly calls to understand progress against changes/tickets assigned to them. Using ticket data in ServiceNow, produce and share with service operations management a weekly report describing the throughput of tickets assigned to the ServiceNow Admin and Systems Integration Partner and the status of any open changes assigned to the Systems Integration Partner with annotated updates based on discussions with them Develop, agree and maintain a list of approved requestors for ServiceNow changes along with associated Change types and Change Models (working closely with the Change Management team) Coordinate ServiceNow application minor releases and updates, and support major upgrades, in conjunction with the external systems integration partner and platform support teams, including loading, manipulating...
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