Job Description

Safety Cases form the backbone of nuclear safety at Sellafield, helping develop safe solutions for projects and maintain safe conditions on our facilities.

The Safety Case is not only a fundamental requirement of our licence to operate, but essential in our understanding of hazards and safety controls.

Safety Case professionals work on projects and facilities site-wide and through the full facility lifecycle from design, through operations, to decommissioning and demolition.

They are responsible for not only understanding and analysing the nuclear hazards and risks that could occur but identifying how safety can be managed and ensuring robust controls are implemented in practice.

Our Profession Mission:
To deliver Sellafield Ltd legal obligations in achieving the mission of delivering a clean and safe environment for future generations, through the development and management of nuclear safety cases.

Our Profession Vision:
We are One Team with an enterprise-wide focus, with the right people, skills and tools to deliver the SL mission. Our structure provides everyone with clarity on their contribution and we operate in an environment where individuals and teams can thrive.

The Safety Case Manager is responsible for the management of Safety Cases on behalf of the Safety Case Owner.

This role includes accountability for implementation, maintenance and review of these safety cases, in accordance with relevant legislation, good practice and business needs.

The role holder will be required to provide high quality safety case advice to all stakeholders and ensure that the safety case is managed efficiently and effectively whilst utilising the Safety Case profession behaviours and values.

Principal Accountabilities

Typical tasks undertaken by Safety Case Managers include, but not limited to:
• Management of singular or multiple nuclear safety cases, including implementation, review, and ongoing maintenance of the safety case to ensure its currency and validity.
• Develop, implement, and maintain a clear strategy for the ongoing management of the safety case.
• Provide high quality safety case advice to all stakeholders.
• Identify and drive improvement initiatives on safety case understanding and implementation in the workplace.
• Sponsor relevant nuclear safety case documentation through appropriate governance routes, in line with project and programmatic expectations.
• Proactively engage with both the Safety Case Owner and Head of Profession for Safety Cases to ensure effective safety case management.
• Support all pillars of the safety cases profession, including Capability and Process and Methods activities as required.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential Skills

• Significant evidence of understanding and application of the Nuclear Safety Case process.
• Experience of a leadership role.
• Experience of delivering work within in a technical/complex industrial environment.
• Experience of working in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience of delivering outcomes through others (and developing others).
• Experience of delivering to challenging timescales.
• Experience of building relationships with a variety of different stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills and a variety of communicating styles, able to adapt style to different stakeholders.
• Understanding of fault identification techniques and risk assessment.
• A variety of influencing strategies.
• Resilience.
• Embraces and leads change.

Desirable Skills

• Completion of the Safety Case Workbook.
• Experience managing a team.
• Experience working with projects.

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 3
• Contact/s: Natasha Curwen

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to be towards the end of November.

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.

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. Problem Solving – 1.3
2. Coaching and Developing Others – 2.3
3. Team Leadership and Broad Scanning – 2.4
4. Adapting to and Leading Change – 3.3

Technical:
1. Knowledge of Sellafield Ltd.

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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