Job Description

1. Role Purpose

Provide a front-line maintenance support service to improve and maintain the effectiveness of the plant/facility and decrease the mean time to repair.

2. Deliverables

• Deliver frontline support to the Maintenance Teams for routine, emergent and outage activities, to enable the efficient delivery of business objectives
• Prioritise and review Maintenance Instructions and plant / facility drawings through liaison with Plant Engineers and local technical experts to ensure that any modifications are included to ensure technical accuracy.
• Effectively organise work (POW) for the maintenance craft team members preparing work packages for the one-off maintenance activities (outside of the work planning process) to allow prompt delivery of work.
• Prepare and deliver the appropriate technical content required to raise Plant Modification Proposals (PMPs), following the recognised formal process for the plant/facility.
• Use their technical expertise and experience to assist in the coaching and mentoring of the maintenance craft team members to ensure they achieve/retain their Nominated Person / SQEP status.
• Comply with appropriate regulations, standards and policies and carries responsibility for safety, cost and quality standards for their teams.
• Oversee the delivery of the contracted maintenance activities within the plant/facility to agreed standards, expectations and time.
• Proactively identify plant problems (especially recurring issues) and co-ordinate appropriate corrective maintenance actions with minimal/no supervision from Line Management.
• Liaise with the Maintenance Team Leader/s in the plant/facility to prioritise maintenance activities (including outage work) to optimise operations and maintain safety.
• Lead and/or support internal investigations to identify root cause and share learning from experience to ensure best practice and understanding.
• Confirm specification requirements (typically with Plant Engineer) of equipment and then liaison with procurement representatives to ensure the availability of the correct equipment and spares, required to enable the reduction of return to service times.
• Respond to Technical Queries (TQs) as appropriate and escalate as required.

Principle Accountabilities

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline
• Incorporated Engineer status or potential to achieve Incorporated Engineer status with an accredited professional institute.
• Front line experience of Plant Engineering or Maintenance Engineering.

Essential Skills

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Demonstrable evidence of the Procurement routes.
• Understanding of SL processes aligned to SLC22 and SLC28.
• Demonstrable experience of how to get work safely planned and delivered on a facility.
• Demonstrable evidence of working closely with Maintenance, Engineering, and other disciplines to further facility mission.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring.

Desirable Skills

• Incorporated status or working towards with an appropriate accredited Institute.
• Demonstrable experience of preparing and delivering PMPs.
• SQEP in POW Role to effectively organise work.

Additional Information

Number of Vacancies: 2
Contact/s: Debbie Eilbeck

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 (2)
Leading by Example (2)
Drive for Results (2)

Technical:
D2. Planning and scheduling – capable
E4. Corrective Maintenance – capable

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.

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 6th October – 17th October 2025
The Profession will conduct interviews and hold wash-up sessions from 20th October – 31st October 2025.

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