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

To enable the delivery of high-quality products and services that meet specified requirements and provide optimal value to our customers. This job is responsible for ensuring quality standards are effectively defined and implemented throughout the project, procurement and operational lifecycle, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and contractual obligations, while promoting continuous improvement that deliver sustained benefits.

AUTHORITIES
Inspection & Assurance
Deploys inspection and testing activities to verify products and services meet specifications, standards, and contractual requirements, ensures quality control requirements are embedded throughout the lifecycle, ensures deviations or non-conformances are escalated appropriately, and acts as the key interface for inspection services.

Key responsibilities

• Promoting culture and focus for Quality
Foster a strong quality culture through stakeholder engagement, influencing early engagement and supporting education to ensure quality is recognised as a key enabler.

Translate customer, stakeholder and regulatory expectations into clear quality requirements.

Collaborate with integrated teams to prepare quality plans and inspection plans, taking consideration of risks, opportunities and learning from experience (LFE), and define requirements for life-time records, to enable right-first time quality delivery.

• Applying quality assurance and control
Define and implement risk-based quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) to confirm products/outputs meet specified requirements.

Identify and escalate quality deviations or non-conformances, working with integrated teams to ensure adequate actions are taken.

Support the concurrent compilation of quality records and verify these conform with specified requirements.

Support intelligent customer responsibilities for Quality throughout the procurement lifecycle to minimise the risks of poor supply chain quality performance. This includes participating in evaluation boards as necessary, contributing to supplier opening up meetings, and reviewing and accepting relevant quality submissions.

• Driving continuous improvement
Apply structured problem-solving methodologies and quality improvement tools to address issues and enhance performance.

Monitor the effective implementation of corrective/preventive actions and improvements.

Capture, evaluate and share quality LFE and good practice to drive continuous improvement.

Your Skills and Qualifications

Essential:
• Qualified to HNC/HND or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering (or suitable experience).
• Engineering background with the ability to interpret Drawings, Specifications and Standards.
• Operational or Project experience within SL or in an environment with similar complexity and risk, sufficient to understand and review end to end processes and propose quality improvements.
• Understanding of quality risks and the impact of non-conformance on safety, performance, and reputation in complex, high-hazard environments (e.g. nuclear, defence, infrastructure).
• Ability to understand and interpret both customer and stakeholder requirements (including, where required, legislation and standards).
• Effective communicator with the ability to influence and collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams and supply chains.
• Ability to apply effective quality planning, assurance and oversight throughout the lifecycle of projects and operations, taking consideration of risks and opportunities and learning.

Desirable:
• Hold minimum of Weld Inspection Certification to CSWIP 3.1 (or equivalent) with at least 5 years’ experience in welding / fabrication.
• Hold minimum of two Non-destructive Testing PCN professional qualifications with at least 5 years’ experience.
• Experience with supplier quality assurance, assessment and inspection techniques.

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%, 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 28th September 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