Job Description

To lead the day-to-day delivery of digital engineering solutions, providing technical leadership and coordination across a defined team or capability area.

The Engineering Lead is responsible for ensuring that solutions are developed, tested, and deployed effectively, meeting business, regulatory, and safety requirements. They act as the bridge between technical teams and stakeholders, translating requirements into deliverable outcomes and supporting continuous improvement of digital services.

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead the successful delivery of digital solutions or services within a defined scope, ensuring alignment to requirements, timelines, and quality standards
• Working with key contacts within Engineering and Maintenance to understand the strategic direction of the organisation to help with the anticipated future challenges and solutions.
• Translate functional and business requirements into clear technical tasks, designs, or user stories
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and support to engineering team members
• Contribute to the design, development, testing, and deployment of digital services
• Ensure solutions comply with relevant regulatory, safety, and organisational standards
• Coordinate with internal teams and external suppliers to support integrated delivery
• Support the implementation of change management activities, including testing, release, and documentation
• Identify, analyse, and help resolve technical issues, risks, and dependencies
• Contribute to continuous improvement of systems, processes, and ways of working
• Support performance tracking through reporting on delivery progress, risks, and outcomes
• Assist in maintaining technical documentation, standards, and knowledge sharing within the team
• Support user adoption activities, including guidance, training, or issue resolution where required

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher Level qualification or relevant experience in an Engineering/Maintenance or Information Technology Discipline.
• Knowledge and experience of working within an Engineering and/or Maintenance Role
• An understanding of Engineering and Maintenance strategic direction, with deeper knowledge of complex engineering systems and an ability to anticipate future challenges.
• An understanding of the asset management lifecycle and strategic initiatives
• Strong influencing and communication skills with the ability to influence and communicate with all levels of the organisation
• Knowledge of the long term strategic planning of Engineering and Maintenance.
• Experience in problem solving and decision making tools.

Process Optimisation:
Leads organisation-wide optimisation efforts, identifies systemic inefficiencies, and implements large-scale improvements that have a significant impact on overall performance.

Essential Skills

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering or information systems discipline
• Demonstrable experience of leading a team to deliver digital services or technical solutions
• Demonstrates the ability to deliver solutions that meet business, regulatory, and safety requirements
• Demonstrates the ability to work collaboratively with internal teams and external suppliers to support delivery
• Demonstrates working knowledge of change management processes, including testing, release, and version control
• Demonstrates good communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders
• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and support their resolution
• Demonstrable experience working with data-driven solutions, including data integration, data quality considerations, and supporting data led decision making
• Demonstrable understanding of cyber security principles and secure by design approaches within digital solution delivery

Desirable Skills

• Demonstrates understanding of working with external suppliers and supporting delivery oversight
• Exposure to defining technical requirements for systems or platform enhancements
• Experience supporting user onboarding, training, or adoption of digital tools
• Demonstrates awareness of governance and approval processes for system changes
• Experience contributing to reporting, dashboards, or data analysis to support decision-making
• Demonstrable experience of contributing to the full lifecycle of digital services (development, testing, release, and continuous improvement)

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Craig Branney

The interviews for this vacancy will take place on Friday 12th June 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 – 3.1.3 Level 3
Continuous Learning 3.1.4 Level 3
Drive for Results 3.3.1 Level 3

Technical:
34.2 Delivering Engineering Solutions Level 3
38.3 Information technical expertise Level 3

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 Tuesday 19th May 2026.

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