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.

The challenges we face are amongst the most complex anywhere in the world. We are using advanced technologies to shape, create and advance the world’s nuclear decommissioning knowledge and capability. That’s why our work is driven by people with a passion for problem-solving and innovation.

About the role

Sellafield Ltd requires specialist legal advice to support the successful delivery of its mission and this role will support our Legal team’s delivery of high value regulatory law support to an evolving business in a complex environment.

As a highly regulated organisation a legal advisor within the Regulatory Law team advises the business across a range of matters including health and safety, environment, security and transport from regulatory interpretation through to assisting significant projects and dealing with enforcement. You will be responsible for the delivery of high-quality legal advice in relation to regulatory law matters for Sellafield, supporting the delivery of strategic business objectives with the opportunity to work with the wider NDA group legal teams.

The role will encompass diverse regulatory matters, including contentious and non-contentious work. Following an initial period gaining knowledge of the business environment under the direction of the other regulatory solicitors, you will be responsible for your own matters and will work as part of the wider Sellafield legal team. You will report to the Head of Regulatory Law and ultimately the General Counsel.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver high quality and timely legal advice and support to the business in relation to regulatory law matters.
• Undertake legal risk analysis in connection with contentious and non-contentious regulatory law activities to maintain consistent, compliant and enabling positions in support of the SL Enterprise Strategy, Operating Plan, Board Risk Appetite statement, as well as external factors relating to government policy and strategy.
• Identify emerging regulatory legal issues and trends.
• Drive the objectives of the business as well as promoting its standards and manifesto.
• Assist in the ongoing maintenance of the regulatory legal team plan to match and anticipate future demands from the business and to enable the business to respond efficiently and effectively to changes in the regulatory environment.
• Develop relevant internal and external (including the NDA Group) stakeholder relationships in support of the corporate strategy and operating plan imperatives.
• Represent Sellafield in discussions with key stakeholders as required including, but not limited to, the NDA, ONR, EA, HSE and Natural England.
• Manage the instruction and funding of external legal advice for regulatory law work, ensuring effective engagement, value for money and efficient cost management.
• Deliver front line advice in own regulatory law practice area specialisms.
• Work closely with NDA legal and other NDA group legal teams in relation to matters of common interest, developing and strengthening relationships to promote two-way engagement.
• Brief, as required the General Counsel/ Head of Regulatory Law, Executive or Board on regulatory law matters or other updates.
• Provision of updates for any NDA or internal reporting obligations or to ensure collaborative cross-group working within Legal Services.
• Horizon scanning for legal updates and changes, including on policy development, legislation, and case law.
• Deliver training and development of standard documents and protocols.
• Support the “learning from experience” feedback loop to inform good practice and efficiency of the team or wider business.
• Compliance with obligations of the relevant legal regulatory body including ongoing professional development.

Your Skills and Qualifications

We are ideally seeking a qualified Solicitor with over 3 years’ experience with a good foundation in health and safety and / or environmental law and an appetite for developing into wider regulatory law areas.

• The ability to assimilate information and make informed recommendations, often in limited timescales.
• Practical problem-solving ability.
• Ability to deal with a wide range of people across the business and to apply good client relationship management.
• Desire to be business-focussed and demonstrate a clear enthusiasm and passion for the business and your role in it.
• Demonstrable ability to work with legal teams and advisors in highly regulated and high consequence environments.
• Ability to manage legal instructions to ensure that advice provided by external legal advisors reflects relevant Sellafield Ltd processes.

Skills considered desirable…
• Prior experience of working in-house and / or advising within the nuclear sector or other similarly highly regulated sectors.

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 12th October 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