Job Description

1. Role Purpose

Provides a frontline engineering service and oversees an assigned group of assets to ensure that the maintenance and operation of the system(s) are performed and managed safely, meeting legal obligations and business requirements efficiently and effectively.

Deliverables

• Deliver a front-line plant engineering service decreasing the mean time to repair of assets and equipment reliability process
• Collaborate with Reliability Engineer and Maintenance Engineer to enable the efficient delivery of business objectives.
• Proactively identify plant problems (especially recurring issues) and co-ordinate appropriate corrective maintenance actions with minimal/no supervision from Line Management.
• Comply with appropriate regulations, standards and policies and carries responsibility for safety, cost and quality standards.
• Work in partnership with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering Reliability colleagues to drive improvements in work delivery and plant availability/reliability.
• Identify issues with systems and components, engaging with specialists to initiate appropriate corrective actions to achieve short term resolution.
• Define the specification and provide technical oversight of procurement activities to ensure the availability of the correct equipment / spares as required to enable the efficiency of the plant / facility.
• Implements and reviews the maintenance strategy for assets and supports the delivery of complex maintenance activities through the provision of technical information into the maintenance instructions, prompts and work packs.
• Provides support to the resolution of complex breakdowns in the facility, following agreed escalation.
• Maintain and review the configuration of the assigned group of assets to enable optimum asset performance.
• For S2 and lower, establish asset condition and identify mitigation strategies.
• Carry out PMP manager duties for assigned tasks and support others in the generation of technical content for PMPs as required to raise Plant Modification Proposals (PMPs), following the recognised formal process for the plant/facility.
• Lead and/or support internal investigations to identify root cause and share learning from experience to ensure best practice and understanding.
• Effectively organise work (POW) for engineering led improvements or other one off activities, including development of full delivery plans / schedules which include contributions from all stakeholders (e.g. PFDO)

Principal 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 understanding of SL Equipment Reliability processes including System Health and Technical Basis of Maintenance.
• Demonstrable experience of how to get work safely planned and delivered on a facility.
• Demonstrates understanding of SL processes aligned to SLC22 and SLC28.
• Demonstrable evidence of effective communication with all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrable ability to manage own worklist and produce robust, realistic plans for delivery of assigned tasks.

Desirable Skills

• Professional status or working towards with an appropriate accredited Institute.
• Demonstrable experience of preparing and delivering PMPs.
• Demonstrable evidence of working closely with Maintenance, Engineering, Operations and other disciplines to further facility mission

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Debbie Eilbeck

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to take place on 10th April 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:
1.6 Collaboration and Teamwork – level 2
3.4 Leading by Example – level 2
3.1 Drive for Results – level 2

Technical:
E3. Fault Finding (capable)
F2. Assurance and Problem analysis (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.

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 22nd March 2026.