Job Description

Responsible for integrating, coordinating, and enabling all SHEQ support activities required by the SHEQ Director and the SHEQ Lead Team. This includes coordination of SHEQ strategy, planning, governance, assurance, reporting, engagement, communication, improvement activity, and other requirements as defined by the SHEQ Director. The role acts as the primary coordinating interface for the SHEQ Director and Lead Team, ensuring clarity, alignment and disciplined execution across all SHEQ functions.

Is the core integrator that enables the SHEQ Lead Team to operate as a cohesive, high‑performing leadership body. They ensure that key routine and strategic deliverables to the SHEQ Director, Executive and Board are planned, coordinated and delivered to the required quality, cadence and standard.

Through effective integration, prioritisation and orchestration, the role enables the day‑to‑day and year‑on‑year activities of the SHEQ Lead Team to be visible, aligned and delivered at pace – strengthening organisational performance, supporting informed executive decision‑making, and ensuring that SHEQ expectations are consistently reinforced across the SHEQ organisation.

Principal Accountabilities

• Coordinate and integrate delivery of the SHEQ strategy and ambition, ensuring clear translation of strategic objectives into actionable plans with the SHEQ Lead Team and monitoring progress against agreed priorities.
• Integrate SHEQ governance and assurance into coherent insight and action, ensuring that oversight, challenge, findings and risks are synthesised into clear messages, prioritised interventions and well‑governed decision‑making for the SHEQ Director and Lead Team.
• Own and manage SHEQ reporting, ensuring high‑quality, timely and insightful reporting to the SHEQ Director, Executive, Board and internal governance forums, with a focus on performance, risk and delivery confidence.
• Coordinate and drive SHEQ improvement programmes, ensuring prioritised, aligned and measurable improvements that enhance performance, culture and capability across all SHEQ disciplines. Examples include Workstream Lead for Target Operating Model, MAVE, NISCI, etc.
• Lead SHEQ communications and engagement, ensuring clear, consistent and effective messaging across the SHEQ organisation and enabling the SHEQ Lead Team to operate as a unified leadership body.
• Manage the SHEQ portfolio, overseeing financial planning, budget tracking, resource management, headcount deployment and routine SHEQ business delivery to ensure efficient and effective use of SHEQ resources.
• Coordinate day‑to‑day and long‑term delivery across the SHEQ Lead Team, ensuring SHEQ work programmes, commitments and routine deliverables are aligned, integrated and delivered to the required pace, quality and standard.
• Enable effective SHEQ Director engagement, acting as the primary coordinating interface to ensure the Director receives the right information, insight, support and alignment across all SHEQ functions.
• Develop, enable and deliver SHEQ projects, supported by effective business cases and benefits. The co-operation and collaboration with Strategy, Business, Finance and RTB is key in enabling project delivery.

As a member of the SHEQ Lead Team:
• Ensure a positive SHEQ culture is established and maintained, with SHEQ considerations remaining central to decision‑making;
• Provide vision and leadership to drive continuous improvement against company objectives, standards and key SHEQ performance indicators;
• Set direction, goals, targets and priorities for SHEQ personnel, delegating authority appropriately.
• Establish consistent working arrangements within the Office of the SHEQ Director aligned with the management system, ensuring effective compliance.
• Ensure team resources maintain strong networking and consultation relationships across the SHEQ Directorate (SHEQ Lead Team), work within the limits of their competence, and provide effective advice and support within their areas of responsibility.

Knowledge & Experience

• Experienced SHEQ professional able to interpret and translate the SHEQ Director’s requirements into clear direction, alignment and coordinated delivery across the SHEQ Lead Team.
• Highly skilled communicator and integrator, able to distil complex information into clear messages for the SHEQ Director, Executive and Board, and drive cohesive, aligned action across SHEQ functions.
• Broad SHEQ leadership experience within the nuclear sector or other high‑hazard, highly regulated industries, with strong understanding of the strategic, regulatory and political environment.
• Good understanding of SHEQ challenges across the nuclear lifecycle, including design, operations, major projects, hazard reduction and decommissioning.
• Strong collaborator capable of working effectively with internal peers and enabling functions, ensuring SHEQ work, objectives and priorities are aligned with operational and project demands across the organisation.
• Holds strong personal credibility and professional gravitas among senior leaders and stakeholders, able to influence, challenge and secure alignment at high levels.
• Strategic thinker with disciplined execution capability, experienced in planning, governance, assurance, performance management and organisational prioritisation.
• Builds trusted, respectful professional relationships, demonstrating political acuity, emotional intelligence and the ability to work constructively across organisational boundaries.

Authorities & Dimensions

Authorities:
• Acting as the business partner with the People Function, Finance, Strategy and Business Planning (etc).
• In partnership with the SHEQ Lead team, to challenge the SHEQ performance of the organisation and intervene as appropriate to prevent activities which threaten compliance with regulatory standards.
• Delegate responsibilities to team members and hold team members accountable for adhering to commitments and performance of work according to applicable SL standards, procedures and arrangements.
• Authorise, delegate and approve expenditure of funds in line with the extent of delegated powers of financial authority, as referenced in SLM 4.04.01 “Delegated Powers of Financial Authority” and any supporting Site Management arrangements.

Dimensions:
• Delivery Plan ~£1M (estimate).
• Leads a team.
• Overall SHEQ size is ~550 staff with delivery plan value of £64.1M.

Nominated roles:
• Chair of SHEQ Portfolio Board.
• Secretary to the Environment, Health, Safety & Security Committee.

Job Context & Challenges:

Safe, secure and sustainable site stewardship is Sellafield Ltd’s priority, with this role integral in supporting the maintenance of the highest standards in SHEQ performance whilst enabling high‑hazard risk reduction.

Unlike the other SHEQ Heads who hold functional technical authority, this role is responsible for integrating the people, processes, priorities and information flows that allow the Directorate to operate as a unified, high‑performing leadership body. The challenge lies in ensuring the SHEQ Director and Lead Team are consistently supported with clear insight, aligned plans, coherent reporting and well‑governed routines, enabling effective decision‑making in a dynamic and high‑hazard environment.

A key challenge for the role is ensuring that SHEQ performance, insights and trends from across all functional areas are integrated into a coherent and accurate picture, enabling the SHEQ Director and Lead Team to identify priorities, address performance gaps and drive consistent improvement across the organisation.

Success requires close collaboration with the SHEQ Lead Team and the wider business. The postholder must maintain credibility, influence without technical authority, and provide calm, disciplined leadership that keeps the Directorate aligned, informed and focused on delivering the Sellafield mission safely and effectively.

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Matt Lee

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to be between 3rd August 2026 & Tuesday 4th August 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 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:
• Problem Solving.
• Collaboration and Teamwork.
• Commitment to the Business.
• Effective Communication Adapting to and Leading Change.

Technical:
• Knowledge of Sellafield Ltd.

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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The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 20th July 2026.