Leadership Opportunities within the Operations Team

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Starting Salary: £53,346 – £64,370 depending on experience
Working Pattern: Days (37.5 hours per week, typical hours are 07:30 – 15:40 or 08:10 – 16:20)
Location: Sellafield, West Cumbria *Potential relocation packages available upon appointment.

What will the Successful Candidate be Doing:

The Sellafield site is one of the most iconic nuclear sites in the world and the birthplace of the UK’s nuclear industry. We have supported national defence, generated electricity for nearly half a century, and the environment now sits at the heart of our purpose. With 100 years of work ahead of us, we are yet again at the forefront of developing innovative solutions, through setting international standards in high hazard nuclear waste management.

Come join and contribute to Sellafield’s exciting new era in leading the way in creating a clean and safe environment for future generations.

We have opportunities for a number of Leadership roles in Operations. The successful candidate will be joining an experienced team in supporting the full portfolio of work.

Why choose Sellafield?

Seventy-five years ago, we helped to create the nation’s nuclear deterrent. Today, we’re using our unrivalled knowledge of nuclear to create a clean and safe environment for future generations. At every step in between, our people have decoded the mysteries of the nuclear atom. Since 1956, UK nuclear power has saved 2.3 billion tonnes of carbon emissions, the equivalent of all the UK’s emissions from 2015 to 2020. Today, we are taking great steps towards cleaning up this waste and creating our clean and sustainable future. Whatever area you join us in, you’ll find a genuinely exciting and life-long career.

What’s in it for you?

At Sellafield Ltd, we are an organisation that is committed to supporting employees fulfil their potential. With comprehensive training and development opportunities, we will enable you to feel inspired in your role.

About the Profession/Team

The operations profession offers a wide range of Opportunities within their team, they are at the very heart of the day-to-day operations for the successful running of Sellafield LTD.

The team, work in a fast paced, highly challenging environment that see them oversee areas like hazard reductions, manging the physical site-based teams that are delivering our work accordance to the CEO’s vision and delivering key milestones to the business.

The Ideal Candidate:

Operations Manager:
The role is to promote and ensure Safety and Security standards are upheld and demonstrates positive compliance with standards, processes and procedures. This role incorporates delivery as a key measurable.
The role holder will manage operational delivery and improvements to ensure delivery against programme objectives and milestones.
Additional requirements will involve ensuring the team are following standards, processes and procedures applicable to the role to ensure that the team is safe at all times and do not compromise on plant safety.
The role holder providers a governance and control framework to ensure safe delivery of operational activities to high standards and acts as a primary point of contact for the facility for other areas of the site to ensure effectiveness and compliance.
The role will also involve looking at areas for improvements and driving transformation within the business.
Operations Support Manager:
The role of Operations Support manager is to manage a multi-disciplined and varied team that provide direct support for operational delivery as well as ensuring legislative compliance.

The role is pivotal in ensuring systems and processes that demonstrate compliance with the site standards and procedures are effectively implemented within the facility or facilities.
The main challenge associated with the role is to develop a sound understanding of a very wide range of subjects and be able to advice or guide plant personnel to ensure effective support to frontline operations.
The role will also involve looking at areas for improvements and driving transformation within the business.

What we’re proud of:

Our purpose is to create a cleaner and safer environment for future generations. The Operations capability at Sellafield has been operating now for over 6 decades. During which time our operations have and continue to play a vital and unique role in the UK’s civil and defence history and in the management and solution to some of the UK’s highest nuclear hazards. Always at the cutting edge of Nuclear technology and innovation, with a rich history of supporting numerous national imperatives and a catalogue of “industry firsts”.

Our processes are centred around manufacturing, process engineering and a strive for continuous improvement. With over 2500 facilities and their associated operations having been brought on-line to meet the nation’s nuclear demands and their associated hazards. With nearly a third of the site’s 11,000+ workforce working in Operations and the remainder providing the support and service to Operations. The diversity of the operational activities on offer is unrivalled both in the UK and internationally. With both Nuclear and non-nuclear activities spread across new or aged facilities, including operations in Utilities, Building Management and Transport & Rail.

Our current plans contain multiple new build facilities and a large portfolio of facilities to decommission. Our operational people play a key role in the lifecycle of these facilities, from the design and build, through the various stages of operations to ultimately the decommissioning and demolition. Our people are our asset with an excellent safety and delivery record.

This is reflected in the tailored educational programme provided to support your development from the moment you join us. Along with a career pathway that enables you to maximise your potential through demonstration of performance.

Sellafield has a proud vision of Diversity & Inclusion that aims to attract candidates into an inclusive and supportive workplace. We are honoured to be recognised as a Level 3 Disability Confident Employer.