Provide a front-line maintenance support service to improve and maintain the effectiveness of the plant/facility and decrease the mean time to repair.
Deliver frontline support to the Maintenance Teams for routine, emergent and outage activities, to enable the efficient delivery of business objectives. Prioritise and review Maintenance Instructions and plant / facility drawings through liaison with Plant Engineers and local technical experts to ensure that any modifications are included to ensure technical accuracy. Effectively organise work (POW) for the maintenance craft team members preparing work packages for the one-off maintenance activities (outside of the work planning process) to allow prompt delivery of work. Prepare and deliver the appropriate technical content required to raise Plant Modification Proposals (PMPs), following the recognised formal process for the plant/facility. Use their technical expertise and experience to assist in the coaching and mentoring of the maintenance craft team members to ensure they achieve/retain their Nominated Person / SQEP status. Comply with appropriate regulations, standards and policies and carries responsibility for safety, cost and quality standards for their teams. Oversee the delivery of the contracted maintenance activities within the plant/facility to agreed standards, expectations and time. Proactively identify plant problems (especially recurring issues) and co-ordinate appropriate corrective maintenance actions with minimal/no supervision from Line Management. Liaise with the Maintenance Team Leader/s in the plant/facility to prioritise maintenance activities (including outage work) to optimise operations and maintain safety. Lead and/or support internal investigations to identify root cause and share learning from experience to ensure best practice and understanding. Confirm specification requirements (typically with Plant Engineer) of equipment and...
We are inviting applications for existing Operations Personnel currently at grade B4B or above. Our approach to identifying and developing Team Leaders includes completing a Strengths Based Assessment and a Leadership Standard Assessment, further details are available here: https://sellafield.pagetiger.com/byyeben/1. Current 4B Operations Team Leaders will not be required to undertake the assessment. Applicants who successfully complete the Strengths Based Assessment and a Leadership Standard Assessment will also be required to undertake a Behavioural Assessment prior to appointment. Current 4B Operations Team Leaders will be required to undertake the Behavioural Assessment only. To be invited to assessment you must meet the following criteria; Be a Sellafield Ltd Employee currently within the Operations Profession with 2 years’ service at your current pay grade. Discuss your interest with your Line Manager. Be fully competent/fully accomplished in your current role. Have achieved at least ‘meets expectations’ in your most recent end of year performance rating. Be willing to move to another facility and/or working pattern in a Team Leader role. Have experience in an Operations/Manufacturing role. Be willing to undertake DAP/ASEQP appointment(s) as required.
Attend/lead work planning meetings and liaise with Integrated Work Management (IWM) to understand work priorities. Plan, organize and supervise work; ensuring fit for purpose risk assessments, working instructions and other documents required for safe work execution. Ensure sufficient Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP) are available to meet and Minimum/Optimum Safety Manning Levels (MSML). Where gaps are present, escalate appropriately. Escalate resource deficiencies where insufficient resource is available to meet Operational manning levels / deliver critical work scope. Authorisation and release of work as Authorizing Authority (AA). Oversee the activities of team members to ensure that work is carried out as required by Company standards, procedures, instructions, and other requirements. Coach and mentor team members and colleagues to assist in knowledge transfer and enhancement of the profession’s overall capability. Manage the team in accordance with company HR processes and procedures; timekeeping, sickness absence, leave, personnel records, etc. Support the development and implementation of improvement programmes. Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME); provide authoritative nuclear safety advice on behalf of the Duty Holder. Investigate incidents and events (Basic Cause and Root Cause investigations). Participate/Facilitate formal Conservative and Operational Decision Making (CDM/ODM). 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. Open VN Number of Vacancies: 1 Contact/s: Robert...
1. Role Purpose Provides a frontline engineering service and oversees an assigned group of assets to ensure that the maintenance and operation of the system(s) are performed and managed safely, meeting legal obligations and business requirements efficiently and effectively. Deliverables Deliver a front-line plant engineering service decreasing the mean time to repair of assets and equipment reliability process Collaborate with Reliability Engineer and Maintenance Engineer to enable the efficient delivery of business objectives. Proactively identify plant problems (especially recurring issues) and co-ordinate appropriate corrective maintenance actions with minimal/no supervision from Line Management. Comply with appropriate regulations, standards and policies and carries responsibility for safety, cost and quality standards. Work in partnership with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering Reliability colleagues to drive improvements in work delivery and plant availability/reliability. Identify issues with systems and components, engaging with specialists to initiate appropriate corrective actions to achieve short term resolution. Define the specification and provide technical oversight of procurement activities to ensure the availability of the correct equipment / spares as required to enable the efficiency of the plant / facility. Implements and reviews the maintenance strategy for assets and supports the delivery of complex maintenance activities through the provision of technical information into the maintenance instructions, prompts and work packs. Provides support to the resolution of complex breakdowns in the facility, following agreed escalation. Maintain and review the configuration of the assigned group of assets to enable optimum asset performance. For S2 and lower, establish asset condition and identify mitigation strategies. Carry out PMP manager duties for assigned tasks and support others in the generation of technical content for PMPs as required to raise Plant Modification Proposals (PMPs), following the recognised formal process for the plant/facility. Lead and/or support internal investigations to identify root cause and share learning from experience to ensure best practice and understanding. Effectively organise work (POW) for engineering led improvements or other one off activities, including development of full delivery plans / schedules which include contributions from all stakeholders (e.g. PFDO)
Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline Incorporated Engineer status or potential to achieve Incorporated Engineer status with an accredited professional institute. Front line experience of Plant Engineering or Maintenance Engineering. Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline. Demonstrable understanding of SL Equipment Reliability processes including System Health and Technical Basis of Maintenance. Demonstrable experience of how to get work safely planned and delivered on a facility. Demonstrates understanding of SL processes aligned to SLC22 and SLC28. Demonstrable evidence of effective communication with all levels of the organisation. Demonstrable ability to manage own worklist and produce robust, realistic plans for delivery of assigned tasks. Professional status or working towards with an appropriate accredited Institute. Demonstrable experience of preparing and delivering PMPs. Demonstrable evidence of working closely with Maintenance, Engineering, Operations and other disciplines to further facility mission Open VN Number of Vacancies: 1 Contact/s: Debbie Eilbeck The interviews for this vacancy are expected to take place on 10th April 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 or equivalent / higher qualification. If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted...
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