Job Description

1. Role Purpose

The Asset Information System Owner is responsible for day-to-day stewardship of a portfolio of important asset information systems, ensuring they are used safely, reliably and in a way that meets business needs. The role oversees operational risk by ensuring clear ownership of requirements, appropriate incident response from a business perspective, and effective escalation where issues affect asset management outcomes. They are responsible for establishing and maintaining appropriate system governance, including clear decision rights, adherence to agreed standards, and regular assurance of system performance and fit for purpose. Acting as the key interface between the business and IT, the System Owner manages stakeholder relationships across operational, functional and technical communities, translates operational needs into prioritised demand, and ensures that a suitable helpdesk and support model is in place, with clear routes for users to obtain support and minimise operational disruption.

2. Deliverables

• Responsible for the day-to-day effective stewardship of a portfolio of asset information systems, ensuring they are used safely, reliably and in a way that meets business needs.
• Own and maintain clear system governance arrangements, including defined decision rights, accountabilities, standards and assurance activities.
• Act as an interface between the business and the IT function, translating operational and asset management needs into clear, prioritised requirements and demand.
• Ensure operational risk is understood and managed from a business perspective, including clear ownership of requirements, appropriate incident response, and effective escalation where system issues affect asset management outcomes.
• Assure business readiness for system changes and releases delivered by IT, including stakeholder engagement, communication, training, and acceptance of change.
• Provide authoritative advice and guidance on system use, limitations, data quality and dependency risks to support safe and effective decision making.
• Oversee and assure that an appropriate helpdesk and support model is in place, with clear routes for users to obtain support, defined service expectations, and effective feedback into improvement.
• Maintain effective stakeholder relationships across operational teams, capability owners, suppliers and assurance functions to ensure continued alignment and confidence in the system.
• Support the prioritisation of system improvements and act as the business-facing lead for agreed enhancements in line with business outcomes, benefits realisation and available capacity.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislative, regulatory and company policy requirements for information, safety, quality and risk, working with specialist functions where accountability sits elsewhere.
• Ensure appropriate system documentation, user guidance and role competency expectations are defined and kept current, including assurance of administrator and key user competence.

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience working with, engineering, maintenance, operations or asset management process and information.
• Awareness of how business-critical information systems are used to support safe, reliable and compliant operations.
• Experience working with IT, digital or specialist system teams
• Awareness of Site Licence Conditions and how management system processes and information systems support regulatory and nuclear safety requirements.

Essential Skills

• Demonstrable experience of translating business and operational needs into clear, prioritised requirements.
• Experience of stakeholder management and influencing skills across organisational boundaries.
• Demonstrates sound judgement and decision making, including assessment of risk and trade-offs.
• Demonstrates clear and structured communication for a range of audiences at all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to support and embed change
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills to understand issues and drive learning. Demonstrates attention to detail and organisational skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience of forums, working groups or processes where system use, data quality or information issues are discussed and agreed.
• Familiarity with handling system issues from a user or business perspective, such as supporting incident resolution, testing changes, or feeding back impacts and lessons learned.
• Experience using reports, dashboards or management information to understand performance or highlight issues.
• Involvement in digital, data or process improvement activity

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Jon Lynch

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to take place on Friday 5th 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:
1. Drive for results 4.3.1
2. Problem Solving 4.1.3
3. Commitment to standards 4.1.5

Technical:
1. Managing & retrieving information 316.2 – Level 2
2. Using information technology at work 31.3 – Level 2

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 20th May 2026.

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