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 provide authoritative, professional Health & Safety (H&S) advice and support in one or more H&S domains (e.g. radiological safety, fire protection, occupational hygiene, conventional H&S). The Safety Specialist plays a key role in shaping, implementing, and assuring H&S policies, procedures, and programmes, while actively supporting operational delivery, promoting a strong safety culture, and driving continuous improvement in safety performance.

Key responsibilities

• Safety Policy & System Leadership: Lead the definition, development, and continuous improvement of safety policies, standards, and management system arrangements tailored to Sellafield Ltd operations. Ensure these are compliant with relevant legislation, align with regulatory expectations and industry standards, and proportionate to operational risk – with a clear focus on protecting employee health and safety.
• Expert Safety Advisory: Act as a company Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more specialist safety domains, providing authoritative advice to enable delivery of the SL Operating plan. Identify and assess workplace hazards and risks, and recommend proportionate control measures to support safe, compliant operations.
• Assurance & Compliance Oversight: Lead and support assurance activities – including inspections, audits, observations, and reviews – to verify compliance with H&S requirements and behaviours. Provide oversight of the safety management system to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted and implemented in the workplace.
• Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement: Analyse H&S performance data and trends, and benchmark SL arrangements against industry standards to inform safety decision-making. Lead or support the development and delivery of improvement programmes that reduce risk, strengthen organisational safety capability and enhance safety culture.
• Capability Development: Develop and deliver H&S education and training to build a well-informed and competent workforce. Coach, mentor, and assess H&S role holders and those accountable for safety delivery to strengthen capability competence of the workforce. Promote ownership of safety responsibilities at all levels and encourage active participation in safety initiatives and continuous learning.
• Incident Investigation & Learning: Support the duty holder in the investigation of incidents and events, ensuring robust root cause analysis, implementation of effective corrective actions, and the sharing of learning to prevent recurrence. Lead investigations where incidents involve more complex technical or organisational factors.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure H&S expectations are understood, embedded, and consistently delivered. Provide credible challenge and support to operational teams, projects, and leadership to drive improved H&S outcomes. Represent Sellafield Ltd in engagements with regulators and other external stakeholders.
• Leadership & Culture: Lead by example, setting high standards for health and safety, championing best practice, and encouraging others to demonstrate appropriate behaviours. Promote a positive safety culture in line with Sellafield Ltd standards and expectations.

Your Skills and Qualifications

Essential:
• Postgraduate / Level 5/6 qualification in the relevant safety specialism (e.g. MSc in Occupational Health & Safety, NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, Certificate of Operational Competence in Occupational Hygiene, Certified Radiation Protection Advisor). 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.
• Chartered Member of a relevant Professional Body (e.g. CMIOSH, CRadP, ICertOH).
• Experience in applying H&S principles within high-hazard, highly regulated environments – ideally within the nuclear, energy, or process industries.
• Knowledge of safety management systems, risk assessment methods, and hazard control techniques.
• Experience in developing and implementing H&S policies, standards, and management systems aligned with regulatory and operational requirements.
• Experience in conducting and leading assurance activities, including audits, inspections, and compliance reviews.
• Proven track record of delivering H&S training, coaching, and capability development across a range of roles and organisational levels.
• Ability to gain DV clearance.

Desirable:
• Experience in managing or leading advisors and other safety professionals, providing technical direction, mentoring, and fostering collaboration to support effective safety delivery.
• Skilled in leading incident investigations, applying structured root cause analysis techniques, implementing effective corrective actions, and facilitating the sharing of learning to improve safety performance.
• Stakeholder engagement experience, including influencing operational teams, senior leaders, and external bodies such as regulators or industry groups.
• Experience in promoting and embedding a positive safety culture, including behavioural safety and leadership engagement.

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 15th 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.

• 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.

• Please regularly check your Spam/Junk folders for news about this vacancy, correspondence could contain invitations to interview and other important updates.

• 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

• 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.