A unique place to grow your career

At Sellafield Ltd, we are harnessing our expertise; bringing together world-class skills and innovative technology to solve complex nuclear, infrastructure, and engineering challenges. By joining Sellafield Ltd, you join an amazing team of people, from all walks of life, where you can thrive in a connected, considerate culture of innovation, collaboration, and community; and play a significant part in the UK’s sustainable nuclear future.

About the role

Provides professional advice and guidance on environmental protection and compliance matters. This job ensures that operational, regulatory and organisational environmental standards are consistently met, contributing to the safe and responsible operation of facilities and projects in the nuclear industry throughout their entire lifecycle from construction and operation to decommissioning.

Authorties & Dimensions:
To provide advice and authorisations in accordance with any SQEP roles and nominations (See Environmental Competence Scheme), seeking advice and guidance from Environmental Specialists / SME’s where necessary.

Key responsibilities

Environmental Management and Advice:
• Provide professional advice to management and staff on environmental matters, including interpretation and application of environmental permits and regulations, to support informed decision making and environmental protection.
• Provide input into the development of Sellafield Ltd (SL) environmental arrangements and standards to ensure effective environmental protection and compliance.

Environmental Impact Assessment:
• Prepare technical reports (e.g. BAT Assessments and Environment Cases) to identify, evaluate and mitigate potential environmental impacts, ensuring relevant authorisations and consents are obtained, to enable new projects or modifications to existing facilities.

Audit and Inspection:
• Undertake inspections, observations, and assurance activities (including oversight and assurance of the management system) to verify compliance with environmental standards and behaviours, and to identify environmental performance gaps and opportunities.
• Support the duty holder in the investigation of incidents and events, ensuring corrective actions are taken and learning opportunities identified and shared.

Data analysis, and performance reporting:
• Review and interpret environmental metrics and analyse data to identify performance trends, providing reports to management to inform and drive improvement, and to the regulator to maintain compliance.

Stakeholder engagement:
• Collaborate with facility operations teams, project teams and contractors to ensure environmental standards and expectations are integrated into design, construction, and operational activities.
• Act as a point of contact for all environment-related queries and support the Environment/EHS Manager and Duty Holders in interactions with external regulators and stakeholders (e.g. Environment Agency, LRQA), agreeing appropriate and proportionate ways to improve environmental performance and minimise regulatory risk to the business.

Continuous Improvement:
• Using the outputs from assurance activities and regulator correspondence, identify opportunities to enhance environmental performance and reduce risks across the organisation.
• Develop improvement programmes, benchmarking environmental performance against industry standards and adopting new technologies to enhance performance.

Education, awareness and mindset:
• Coach, mentor and where appropriate, assess Environmental colleagues and/ or Environmental role holders and those accountable for environmental safety to develop environmental competency.
• Lead by example in setting environmental standards, championing best practice and encouraging others to demonstrate appropriate behaviours, and promoting the development of a positive Environmental culture.
• Develop and deliver environmental education and training to employees & support the development of a well-informed workforce that understands its role in protecting the environment.

Your Skills and Qualifications

Essential:
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant STEM subject or an equivalent level of qualifications and experience.
• Member of a relevant Professional Body (e.g. ISEP (Practitioner or REnvP) etc.).
• Strong knowledge of environmental management systems, risk assessment methods, and hazard control techniques.
• Experience providing environmental compliance advice within in a highly regulated, industrial setting.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Analytical skills with attention to detail in documentation and reporting.

Desirable:
• Knowledge and understanding of Environmental challenges at Sellafield.
• Chartered member of a relevant Professional Body (e.g. IEMA, RSC etc.).

Why us?

At Sellafield Ltd, we are committed to supporting our employees in fulfilling their potential. With 100 years of work in front of us, we offer comprehensive training and development opportunities, enabling you to feel inspired in your role. Whatever area you join us in, you’ll find a genuinely exciting and rewarding career.

Making sure our employees feel supported is important to us. Therefore, to help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we also offer a range of employee benefits:
• You will benefit from an annual bonus of up to 10% – 15%, made up of company and personal performance
• An attractive defined contribution pension scheme – the company will match up to 13.5% for a 7%
employee contribution!
• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays. Plus, the ability to purchase an extra 2.5 days per year.
• The ability to carry over 10 days annual leave each financial year
• Paid Sick Leave
• Family Friendly Policies – Visit our Rewards & Benefits page to read more
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Lifestyle Benefits sasra.co.uk
• Learning & Development Opportunities https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/learning-anddevelopment/
• Reward & Recognition Policies
• Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme
• Free Aviva Health App & Annual Health Check
• MyDiscounts – Employee Savings & Discounts
• MyBenefits – A Charity Giving Scheme
• Many, many more! Click this link to visit our Rewards & Benefits page:
https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/rewards-and-benefits/

Additional Information

• The closing date for this vacancy is Sunday 4th October 2026.

• In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, Sellafield Ltd reserves the right to close the advert early. Once closed, the advert will be removed from our website. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

• Please regularly check your Spam/Junk folders for news about this vacancy, correspondence could contain invitations to interview and other important updates.

• Qualifications
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide evidence of your qualifications. Attaching them at application stage will ensure a smooth process and prevent delays.

• Right to Work in the UK
As part of our screening process, all candidates must demonstrate their right to work in the UK.
If you are not a UK national, you will be required to provide evidence of your immigration status. This is generated through the UK Government online service via the GOV.UK services below:
- A valid eVisa (digital immigration status) share code
https://www.gov.uk/evisa/view-evisa-get-share-code-prove-immigration-status
- A Right to Work share code
https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work

Applicants who are not UK nationals must provide a valid Right to Work share code and evidence of their eVisa status at the point of application. Applications submitted without this information are not able to be progressed.

• Please be aware that this role is subject to achieving security clearance. This role requires higher level of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 or 10 years of continuous residency in the UK. Factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the level of clearance you’re able to achieve.

• 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