Job Description

Responsible for the management of the Engineering and Maintenance Task team and the safe delivery of a portfolio of asset care Tasks/projects for plants and facilities on the Sellafield Site.

Principle Accountabilities

• Responsible for the Engineering and Maintenance Task Team, comprising a team of 30-40 Managers and Task Engineers. This includes setting strategic focus and direction, goal setting, day to day line management, maintaining team competency/capability and upkeep of key appointments e.g. CDM nominations.
• Accountable for the effective management and delivery of a portfolio of 130-160 Tasks (Projects with an individual value of up to £1 million) through the entire project lifecycle e.g. Scoping & Planning, Design, Commercial, Construction and Close Out.
• Accountable for the financial management, oversight and compliance of the Engineering and Maintenance Asset care budget of £14 – £20 million, with the explicit focus of ensuring value for money is achieved and demonstrated through measures and metrics to the Head of Site Wide Services and the Chief Engineer.
• Accountable for Task Delivery Processes, procedures, legislative and commercial compliance for all elements of the project lifecycle, ensuring safe and effective solution are delivered for plants and facilities on a Nuclear Licensed Site.
• Support Site Framework partnerships and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with Framework contractors.
• Accountable for the effective oversight and management of Plant Modification Proposals (PMP) associated with all works, ensuring safe and timely completion of works and close out of PMPs.
• Establishing and maintaining effective loss logging for task/project delays and developing a continuous improvement plan in partnership with Operations and Engineering colleagues to drive improvements.
• Accountable for effective implementation of the Site Asset Care process, specifically in determining allocation of funding and priority of asset care work in collaboration with Site Value Streams.
• Accountable for completion of all elements of the site annual asset care/funding process, specifically prioritisation of worklists via Plant Health Committees and Sentencing Boards, obtaining funding and sanction of work, planning and co-ordinating all works and providing oversight to the Head of Site Wide Services, Chief Engineer and Enterprise AMOC.
• Establishing effective Task/project delivery metrics and ensuring all Site Value Streams have reports/updates and Task team representation at Sentencing Boards and Plant Health Committees.

Knowledge & Experience

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering/project discipline
• Experience of running projects on a nuclear licenced site
• Experience of managing budgets, contracts and contract frameworks
• Understanding of engineering processes and procedures to safely execute work and modify plants/facilities
• Knowledge of site asset care process

Essential Skills

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in a relevant engineering/project discipline.
• Significant engineering AND/OR project experience, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility.
• Excellent people leadership skills, including experience of team management and managing customers.
• Demonstrable experience in Continuous Improvement and driving Value For Money.
• Experience of Managing Financial Budgets, working with Contract Frameworks and contracts preferable.

Desirable Skills

• Ability to attain Chartership with a relevant discipline
• Ability to attain APM Qualification
• Demonstrable experience in Continuous Improvement and driving Value For Money
• Demonstrable experience with site asset management process

Additional Information

Please note – this vacancy will close at 23:59 on Sunday 7th December 2025.

Number of Vacancies: 1
Contact/s: Mat Johns – mat.b.johns@sellafieldsites.com

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:
• 3.1.6 Collaboration & Team Work – Level 4
• 3.3.1 Drive for Results – Level 4
• 3.3.3 Leading change – Level 4

Technical:
• 34.4 Managing projects – Level 4
• 34.5 Managing suppliers and contracts – Level 4

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.

During the interview, you will also be expected to give a 10 minute presentation on ‘How will I deliver more asset care outcomes’.

This presentation should be sent to recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk via email at least two working days before your interview. You should also take four paper copies of your presentation to your interview in case of any IT issues on the day.

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.

Campaigns have been mapped and extended time has been added to adverts, shortlisting and interviews (see below):
The Profession will carry out shortlisting w/c 08/12/2025
The Profession will conduct interviews w/c 12/01/2026

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.

Campaign Approach

Some jobs and professions may input their shortlisting and interview results earlier than the above agreed dates. Whilst we would endeavour to send out shortlisting and interview results earlier than the agreed dates if we can, this is not always possible due to the large volume of campaigns we are running coherently.

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