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

The Cyber Risk Team Lead is responsible for managing the organisation’s cyber risk management and reporting activities. Reporting to the Head of Governance, Risk, Compliance and Assurance, this role plays a key part in ensuring that cyber risk is effectively monitored, recorded, and communicated across the organisation. The role ensures alignment with enterprise risk frameworks and supports the identification of trends, gaps, and mitigation progress across the cyber risk landscape.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain and operate the cyber risk register, ensuring accurate recording, categorisation, and alignment with risk appetite.
• Coordinate with system owners and SMEs to validate and update risk entries and mitigation plans.
• Lead the routine cyber risk review cycle, preparing agendas, materials, and facilitating discussions.
• Produce high-quality risk summaries, dashboards, and heatmaps for operational and executive audiences.
• Develop thematic and trend-based risk reports to support strategic decision-making.
• Ensure timely escalation and de-escalation of cyber risks, with appropriate ownership and documentation.
• Support integration of cyber risk into enterprise risk and assurance frameworks.
• Liaise with corporate risk, internal audit, and business continuity teams to ensure alignment and consistency.
• Contribute to risk governance forums, steering groups, and review boards.
• Drive continuous improvement of cyber risk methodologies, tools, and reporting processes.
• Support third-party and supply chain cyber risk assessments, including critical supplier identification and assurance.
• Collaborate with procurement and commercial teams to embed cyber risk considerations into supplier selection and contracting.
• Lead a small team of cyber risk professionals.

Your skills and qualifications

• Strong understanding of cyber security risk principles, including threat, vulnerability, and impact assessment.
• Experience maintaining or operating enterprise risk registers.
• Familiarity with cyber risk frameworks such as NCSC CAF, NIST RMF, or ISO 27001.
• Proven ability to produce and present risk reports to technical and senior business audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical risk into accessible language.
• Proficiency in risk tracking and reporting tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, GRC platforms)
• Organised and methodical in managing cyclical review and reporting processes.
• Ability to coordinate with a wide range of stakeholders and manage conflicting priorities.

Skills considered desirable

• Experience working in or alongside a cyber security function.
• Familiarity with enterprise risk management or integrated risk frameworks.
• Understanding of OT risk or ICS/SCADA security concepts.
• Awareness of board-level or external reporting expectations around cyber risk.
• Experience with supplier assurance or third-party risk management.
• Prior involvement in risk tool selection, implementation, or automation.

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 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.

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.