Job Description

The Directorate Head of Engineering & Maintenance manages the delivery of fit for purpose plant engineering & maintenance programmes within an assigned engineering area to meet the multi-faceted needs of a Directorate’s operation, maintenance and project delivery.

The role holder supports the achievement of business targets and ensure the safe operation of the delivery directorate by facilitating the movement of resources across the organisation. The role is responsible for defining the structure, organisation, and resourcing levels of Plant Engineering to effectively deliver engineering activities within their area of responsibility. In addition, the postholder has the authority to determine the applicability of engineering standards within the Delivery Directorate.

Principle Accountabilities

• Develop and deliver operational plans which enable the assigned engineering area to achieve improvements in availability and reliability to support the achievement of Sellafield objectives.
• Participate on the Divisional lead team and contribute to the development of engineering and maintenance strategy which supports overall Sellafield goals
• Carry overall responsibility for safety, cost and quality standards for Engineering within the Directorate, ensuring compliance with appropriate regulations, standards and policies
• Establish, implement and maintain the technical baseline for Delivery Directorate plant assets including the technical basis of maintenance
• Ensure the delivery of pragmatic, technically sound and fit for purpose engineering solutions to optimise facility performance
• Develop medium and long term workforce plans and take required action to develop appropriate engineering capability to meet engineering objectives
• Act within the principles of Engineering Authority for the Delivery Directorate, establishing functional requirements and specifications, and ensuring that the design of engineering systems / equipment meets the needs of the facility
• Keep up to date with changes in the external environment which could impact upon workforce needs, taking action as required to mitigate and manage risks to capability of the Directorate
• Represent the Directorate to a range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment of activities to enable the effective delivery of engineering objectives
• Act as the key point of contact for regulators, ensuring that requests are appropriate and fulfilled in a timely manner, negotiating as required to ensure smooth and successful inspections
• Act as an official representative of Sellafield Ltd, representing the organisation at external events and to external partners to drive policy and standard development
• Identify opportunities for Enterprise wide improvements, working across directorates to lead, develop and implement improvement solutions

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Degree or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline
• Fellowship status or potential to achieve fellowship status
• Significant senior level engineering experience, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility
• Excellent leadership skills and experience

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 4
• Contact/s: Mat Johns

As part of your application, please include a cover letter detailing how you meet the knowledge and experience required for the role.

The date of the interviews for this position will be confirmed in due course.

If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted, you will be invited to an interview. In the interview, you will be assessed against the NDA Leadership Standard.

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 Friday 26th June 2026.