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

The HR Business Partner acts as a strategic liaison between the People Function and Enterprise areas , ensuring alignment of people strategies with organisational goals.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and participate in year cyclical people-related activities.
• Advise managers on complex employee relations issues.
• Facilitate and support organisational design processes.
• Implement workforce planning and talent management initiatives.
• Support change management and organisational development activities.
• Analyse and present people metrics to inform decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with employment law and internal policies.
• Coach line managers on core people processes, instilling people management best practice to drive enhanced line manager capability, and escalating concerns, demand or opportunities.

Authorities & Dimensions:
• No budget responsibility unless managing people related budgets for a team.
• The job will influence and guide budget holders’ decisions relating to people-related cost effectiveness.
• The job may operate within a single Enterprise area or multiple areas.

Your Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills:
• Level 5 CIPD Associate Diploma / Foundation or Undergraduate Degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• CIPD Associate Accreditation or willingness to work towards.
• Knowledge and experience in Senior level human resource practices.
• Ability to apply commercial awareness / business acumen to strengthen business partnering capability.
• Organisational design methodology and practice.
• Strong understanding of HR principles, employment law and best practices.
• Ability to handle confidential information with professionalism and integrity.
• Problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in HR information systems and reporting.
• Demonstrable experience of leading change initiatives.
• Experience of working in a trade union environment, developing and maintaining strong, collaborative trade union relationships.

Desirable Skills:
• Coaching and mentoring training, experience, or qualifications.
• Leadership development tools / techniques training or qualifications.

Why us?

At Sellafield Ltd, we are committed to supporting our employees in fulfilling their potential. With having 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-and-development/
• 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/

Sellafield Ltd is a unique place to grow your career, offering a remarkable blend of role variety, job security, personal growth, professional development, and truly significant work. This is your opportunity to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the nuclear, infrastructural and engineering worlds and create a clean and safe environment for generations to come. Explore Sellafield Ltd today.

Additional Information

• The closing date for this vacancy is Sunday 18th 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