Job Description

Job Purpose

Responsible for provision of an Engineering & Maintenance service for the Retrievals Value Stream, which comprises of the Legacy Pond & Silo Plants, East River Encapsulation Plants and several new facilities that are being brought into operation over the next few years. The Role requires strong and effective leadership of multiple plant facing Maintenance and Plant Engineer teams, with a specific focus on enabling safe and consistent retrieval operations whilst ensuring teams comply and deliver Site Licence Condition and Legislative obligations.

Deliverables

• Collaborate with Engineering Reliability Manager to deliver engineering strategic options to enable the efficient delivery of business objectives.
• Responsible for compliance with appropriate regulations, standards and policies and carries responsibility for safety, cost and quality standards for their teams.
• Develop and sustain multi-disciplined teams that are able to respond to asset failures with fit for purpose engineering and maintenance solutions to reduce Mean Time to Repair.
• Responsible for implementing and delivering asset strategies for allocated assets.
• Develop and deliver strategic plans for their area aligning appropriate resources to contribute to the delivery of the wider enterprise mission.
• Influence senior internal and external stakeholders/customers to ensure integration which leads to the effective delivery of key engineering and maintenance activities to support strategic objectives
• Act as an official representative of Engineering and Maintenance, representing the organisation at external events and to regulators to enable knowledge share.
• Manage personal development, aspirations, performance and work scope of the direct reportees to ensure a high performing cohesive team.
• Develop and implement medium and long-term workforce plans and take required action to develop appropriate engineering and maintenance capability to meet objectives.
• Keep up to date with changes within internal and external industry as well as any political changes which could impact upon workforce needs, taking action as required to mitigate and manage risks to capability.
• Responsible for compliance with all appropriate Risk Assessment Cases, Legal Obligations and Relevant Good Practice.
• Oversea budgetary and cost-effective delivery of engineering and maintenance solutions.
• Oversee the provision of maintenance services to internal/external customers to agreed safety and quality standards.
• Oversees the measure on condition across all assets that are in their scope, but not covered by Reliability Engineering.
• Work in partnership with Operations and Engineering Reliability colleagues to drive improvements in work delivery and plant availability/reliability.

Principle Accountabilities

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher level qualification OR equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline
• Significant engineering and maintenance experience, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility
• Excellent people leadership skills and experience of team management.

Essential Skills

• Strong Nuclear Safety focus and application of Nuclear Professionalism Standards & Expectations and Manifesto behaviours
• Demonstrable experience of managing engineering & maintenance services for multiple plant areas and customers
• Detailed Knowledge of Maintenance processes, procedures, site licence and legislative obligations
• Experience of managing change and plant transitions and mobility of people/teams to new missions
• Demonstrable experience in continuous improvement, improving plant performance and MTTR.

Desirable Skills

• Previous Retrievals experience/knowledge
• Working level understanding of Safety case compliance/knowledge
• Experience of Lean Manufacturing/ Continuous Improvement Tools and Techniques
• Experience of legacy facilities, plant production and new/old plant equipment interfaces preferable.

Additional Information

Please note – this vacancy will close at 23:59 on Sunday 7th December 2025.

Number of Vacancies: 1
Contact/s: Graeme Mason or Darren Culling

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:
• Collaboration and Teamwork – 3.1.6 Level 4
• Leading Change – 3.3.3 Level 4
• Holding Self and Others to Account – 3.3.3 Level 4

Technical:
F2 – Assurance and problem analysis – Authoritative
H1 – Asset Strategy – Authoritative

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.

During the interview, you will also be expected to give a 10 minute presentation on –
‘How would you deliver more outcomes in E&M to support sustained retrievals operations.’

This presentation should be sent to recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk via email at least two working days before your interview. You should also take four paper copies of your presentation to your interview in case of any IT issues on the day.

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 GCSE in English, Maths & Science/IT or equivalent / higher qualification.

Campaigns have been mapped and extended time has been added to adverts, shortlisting and interviews (see below):
The Profession will carry out shortlisting between 15th – 19th December 2025.
The Profession will conduct interviews on 13th & 14th January 2026.

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.

Campaign Approach

A new campaign approach is being rolled out to support the timely delivery of current and future post filling requirements, this will enable immediate vacancies to be filled along with building a holding pool for consideration against future vacancies. This VN has been issued in order to fill current demand and to create a pool for future vacancies.

Some jobs and professions may input their shortlisting and interview results earlier than the above agreed dates. Whilst we would endeavour to send out shortlisting and interview results earlier than the agreed dates if we can, this is not always possible due to the large volume of campaigns we are running coherently.

If the profession has immediate vacancies to fill, then an offer will be issued to the successful applicant. If there are no immediate vacancies, those applicants that have met the requirements will be placed in a holding pool for future consideration.

Candidates in the holding pool will only be offered roles for the positions that they have been interviewed for. If you have not been selected after 12 months, your details will be removed from the job in line with GDPR requirements and you would need to re-apply if you still wish to be considered. As per current principles once an individual accepts another role any other applications submitted will no longer be considered and they will be removed from the pool/process.

If placed into the holding pool, it is the responsibility of the applicant to advise if they no longer want to be considered. Similarly, if a candidate rejects an offer associated with the pool, they will be removed from the holding pool.

Please ensure that you save a copy of this advert and your application for future reference.