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. Are you a technically minded problem solver who enjoys seeing projects through from concept to completion? Do you thrive on ensuring systems perform as expected and are ready for safe operation? We're seeking Commissioning Test Engineers to play a vital role in the testing, validation, and commissioning of new systems, equipment, and facilities. Acting as the final assurance before assets enter service, you'll help confirm that systems operate safely, reliably, and in accordance with their design requirements. Working as part of multidisciplinary project teams, you'll coordinate and execute testing activities, identify and resolve technical issues, and provide confidence that facilities are ready for operational use.
As a Commissioning Test Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering commissioning and testing activities across a range of projects. Your work will ensure that equipment and systems are thoroughly tested, documented, and proven before handover to operations. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong technical background who enjoys problem-solving, collaboration, and delivering high-quality engineering outcomes. Every successful project depends on confidence that systems will perform safely and reliably when they are needed most. As a Commissioning Test Engineer, you'll provide that confidence by ensuring facilities and equipment are thoroughly tested, verified, and ready for operation. Your work will directly contribute to safer operations, reduced risk, improved performance, and the successful delivery of major projects. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact while developing your technical expertise within a collaborative and professional engineering environment. 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. Testing and Validation Develop and prepare commissioning test plans and procedures. Coordinate, conduct, and oversee testing activities on systems and equipment. Analyse, review, and document test results. Verify that systems meet required performance, operational, and safety standards. Support the successful progression of systems through commissioning and handover stages. Technical Problem Solving Identify faults, defects, or unexpected behaviours during testing. Investigate root causes and recommend effective corrective actions. Work with project and...
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.
CE&l Lead Design Engineer is responsible for leading a team of Internal and External Engineers and Designers to produce design deliverables from all stages of the SL gated Process from Studies (scoping for asset care) through to Detailed Design and support to Manufacture, Installation and Commissioning. The vacancies are for power systems design engineers working within the Sellafield ESI specialist CE&I design team. The work will be linked to Project Delivery and provision of the subject matter expertise into the wider design community. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and updating the projects working ETAP model, production of fault calculations, protection reports and arc flash risk assessments. The candidate will provide power and protection specialism support to the wider design team. The candidate will contribute to the updating of Sellafield’s engineering standards and best practice. Develop engineering schemes to support the selection of the viable option during studies Define, implement and deliver engineering design work packages that are safe, legally compliant, fit for purpose and meet functional and business requirements to contribute to the successful completion of Engineering Design projects. Assist the discharging of Intelligent Customer duties to support the production of design deliverables by the supply chain (as appropriate to the delivery mechanism). Provide engineering design support to the System Engineering community (or other relevant disciplines / areas) to address emergent issues and provide design solutions to support existing assets. Pragmatically complies with all legislative, regulatory and company policy standards and procedures...
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. Are you passionate about ensuring new facilities, equipment, and systems are safe, practical, and ready for real-world operation? We're looking for a Commissioning Operability Team Member to play a key role in bridging the gap between project delivery and operational excellence. You'll work closely with project teams, engineers, operators, and maintenance personnel to ensure new assets are designed, commissioned, and handed over with the end user firmly in mind. This is an exciting opportunity to influence projects from development through to operational readiness, ensuring that people, processes, training, and documentation are in place to support safe and efficient operations from day one.
As a Commissioning Operability Team Member, you will: Support Operational Readiness Represent operations and maintenance throughout the project lifecycle. Support the transition of facilities and systems from project delivery into routine operations. Develop Procedures and Documentation Produce clear and effective operating and maintenance instructions. Review and validate procedures to ensure they are practical, accurate, and user-friendly. Develop guidance covering routine operations, alarms, maintenance activities, and emergency response. Support Training and Knowledge Transfer Contribute to the development and delivery of training materials and programmes. Share technical expertise and operational best practice across project and operational teams. Provide specialist advice and support as a subject matter expert where required. Champion Safety and Performance Promote a positive and balanced safety culture. Support assessments that consider the interaction between people, equipment, and processes. Identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency. Collaborate Across Teams Work closely with engineers, project teams, operators, contractors, and other stakeholders. Deliver operational readiness activities across a diverse portfolio of projects. Complete assigned work packages safely, efficiently, and to the required quality standards. You'll be someone who can look beyond the design stage and understand how systems and facilities will function in the real world. You'll bring: A strong understanding of operational and maintenance requirements. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. The ability to build effective working relationships across multidisciplinary teams. A proactive and organised approach to delivering high-quality outcomes....
As a Cyber Strategy Manager you will lead the development and execution of the organisation’s cyber security strategy, ensuring alignment with national security priorities, regulatory requirements, and operational resilience goals. The Cyber Strategy Manager will drive strategic initiatives that enhance cyber maturity across IT and OT environments, enabling secure digital transformation in a high-consequence nuclear setting. Develop and maintain a long-term cyber strategy aligned with organisational objectives and national frameworks (e.g., NCSC, ONR, BEIS). Lead strategic planning for cyber risk management, resilience, and capability development. Oversee cyber maturity assessments and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Coordinate cross-functional cyber programmes, including governance, awareness, and innovation. Engage with senior leadership to ensure cyber strategy is embedded in business planning and decision-making. Represent the organisation in external strategic forums, including government and industry working groups. Monitor emerging threats, technologies, and regulatory changes to inform strategic direction. Provide strategic oversight of cyber investment planning, including budget prioritisation and resource allocation. Authorities & Dimensions Strategic Leadership: Authority to define and implement the cyber strategy across the organisation. Policy Direction: Influence over cyber policy development and alignment with strategic goals. Budgetary Input: Authority to recommend and prioritise cyber-related investments and resource allocations. Stakeholder Engagement: Acts as the strategic liaison with external bodies (e.g., ONR, NCSC, NDA, DESNZ). Programme Oversight: Leads or sponsors major cyber programmes and initiatives. Scope: Organisation-wide, covering both corporate IT and Operational Technology (OT) environments. Strategic Impact: Direct influence...
The Head of Safety Management and Standards sets the enterprise strategy, governance and assurance framework for industrial and radiological safety, ensuring Sellafield Ltd maintains compliant and robust arrangements that support safe mission delivery. Provides specialist leadership and oversight to ensure safety risks are controlled, regulatory expectations are met and performance improves, holding functional authority for safety standards and performance insight. Working alongside the Head of Core SHEQ Services, the postholder provides technical advice, specialist safety support services and expert advice to operational delivery organisations, and represents Sellafield Ltd as the senior safety authority in engagements with regulators, the NDA and industry bodies. Provides safety governance and assurance to the SHEQ Director, supporting their executive and Board‑level accountabilities for safe site operation and effective stewardship of industrial and radiological safety risks.
Set the enterprise‑wide strategic approach for industrial and radiological safety, ensuring robust, compliant and forward‑looking arrangements. Own and shape the Sellafield Safety Policy. Lead and manage specialist SHEQ safety disciplines, including COMAH, Occupational Hygiene, Industrial/Conventional Safety and Radiological Protection, ensuring expert capability and technical standards. Direct specialist safety support and advisory services, through the Head of Core SHEQ Services, ensuring operational delivery organisations receive authoritative technical advice and guidance. Provide enterprise‑level safety leadership and oversight, challenging and intervening where necessary to prevent degradation of safety standards. Act as Process Owner for key safety domains (e.g., Conventional H&S, Radiological Protection, Fire Protection, Management of Contractors), including associated Licence Condition arrangements. Maintain continued ISO 45001certification. Own and actively manage corporate‑level safety risks, ensuring robust mitigation, escalation and clear enterprise visibility. In collaboration with the Head of Regulatory Interface and Nuclear Safety, Lead enterprise‑level safety regulatory engagement to ensure proportionate and effective interactions with regulators and government bodies. Maintain horizon scanning for conventional and radiological safety to influence regulation development and ensure SL implementation. Benchmark safety arrangements and performance against national and international good practice, driving the adoption of emerging standards and insights. Strengthen the organisation’s safety culture by shaping and embedding ‘fit for context’ safety practices across the enterprise, ensuring expectations are clearly understood, consistently applied, and reinforced through the SHEQ Lead Team’s collective leadership. Deliver SHEQ improvement objectives and targets, ensuring effective corrective action programmes are identified and implemented based on...
We're looking for an experienced Advice & Case Coaching Manager to lead our specialist HR team responsible for advising and supporting employee related cases, providing expert advice, and ensuring the consistent application of employment policies and practices. This is a key role combining expertise in employment law and case management with strong people leadership and operational excellence skills in a highly unionised environment. The role works closely with stakeholders across the business to ensure employee concerns, conduct matters, workplace disputes, and policy-related issues are managed fairly, consistently, and in line with legal and regulatory requirements. The role holder will make a key contribution to helping re-shape the delivery of our HR services and to our continuous improvement programme. Lead the end-to-end management and oversight of formal employee relations cases, ensuring timely, fair and compliant outcomes, providing expert guidance and support to a team of Case Coaches, Advisors and Specialists. Ensure consistent interpretation and application of employment policies, procedures, governance standards and employment legislation, supporting the resolution of complex and sensitive employee relations matters while mitigating risk. Build strong relationships with HR Business Partners, Employee Relations, Legal, Ethics & Compliance teams, line managers and Trade Union representatives. Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team, ensuring capability, engagement and effective performance management, managing team capacity, workload and resources to deliver to service standards. Use data and insight to identify trends, risks and improvement opportunities, providing meaningful reporting to senior leaders. Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance...
Looking for work experience that goes beyond making tea and shadowing staff? Our Engineering Design Work Experience Programme will give you the opportunity to explore how engineering helps solve some of the UK's most complex environmental and operational challenges. Throughout the week, you'll gain insight into the work of professional engineers and designers and discover how innovative thinking helps deliver nationally important outcomes. Whether you're considering apprenticeships, college, university or simply exploring your options, this programme will help you understand where a career in Design Engineering could take you.
At Sellafield, everyone has a role to play in creating a clean, safe and secure environment for future generations. Responsible for delivering one of the UK's most important environmental and engineering missions. Our work combines science, technology, engineering, project delivery, data analysis and innovation to tackle complex challenges and create a safer future. Through our work experience programme, you'll gain exposure to real projects, workplace environments and professionals working across a range of specialist disciplines. Discover how engineers design systems, facilities and solutions that help tackle some of the UK's most complex industrial challenges. Throughout the week, you'll explore the engineering design process, develop problem-solving skills, learn how engineering projects are delivered and gain insight into the wide range of careers available within engineering and design. This programme is ideal for learners with an interest in engineering, design, mathematics, technology or problem-solving. By taking part, you'll have the opportunity to: Experience a professional workplace environment Develop communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills Build confidence and workplace awareness Enhance future apprenticeship, college, university and job applications Gain valuable content for your CV and personal statement Meet and learn from industry professionals Explore careers you may never have considered before Better understand the skills employers are looking for Applications are welcomed from learners in Years 11-13 who are enthusiastic, curious and keen to learn. We are not looking for perfect grades. We want to hear from learners who are interested in exploring careers, developing their...
At Sellafield, everyone has a role to play in creating a clean and safe environment for future generations. Our work experience programmes provide an opportunity to explore meaningful careers, develop valuable workplace skills and discover how your interests and strengths could translate into future career opportunities. Whether you're considering apprenticeships, college, university or simply beginning to think about your next steps, a placement with Sellafield will help you gain real-world experience, build confidence and explore careers that make a difference.
Sellafield Ltd is responsible for delivering one of the UK's most important environmental and engineering missions. Every day, thousands of people work together across a wide range of disciplines to solve complex challenges, deliver innovative solutions and help create a safer future for generations to come. Work experience at Sellafield is more than an opportunity to observe. It's your chance to learn from experts, gain first-hand insight into professional careers and experience what it's like to contribute to meaningful work that has a lasting impact. Our programmes are designed to provide insight into different career pathways across our organisation. Engineering: Help design, maintain and improve the systems and technologies that support some of the UK's most significant engineering challenges. Our programmes available are: Engineering Design – 19th and 26th July Engineering Maintenance & Asset Delivery – 1st & 15th March, 14th & 28th June, 5th & 12th July Nuclear Welding Inspection & Assurance – 1st March & 12th July Dive Team – 14th June and 5th July Science: Discover how specialist teams work together to maintain high standards of safety, resilience and operational excellence. Our programmes are: Operations, Safety Case & Health Physics – 14th June & 5th July Firefighter – 1st March & 12th July Non-STEM (Business & Professional Services): Explore the vital business functions that enable the organisation to deliver its mission effectively. Our programmes are: Business Administration (14th, 21st & 28th June, 5th & 12th July) Business Improvement (1st...
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