Capability Leader for Safety, Security, Safeguards and Human Factors

Job Introduction

Job Description for Capability Leader for Safety, Security, Safeguards and Human Factors:

This is where your skills play a critical role in keeping everyone safe. Working in Safety, Security & Safeguards gives you the chance to make your mark on some hugely interesting projects. NNL does work that nobody else in the sector is doing, and this means we need experts like you to make it possible, whilst keeping everyone safe. We’re committed to using nuclear science to benefit society for years to come. This means that you can build a long and successful career here whilst playing a meaningful role in delivering cleaner energy, reducing waste and keeping colleagues and the public out of harm’s way.

An exciting opportunity has become available within our Nuclear Operations Capability. We are looking for a high calibre, motivated and experienced individual to join us as the Capability Leader (CL) for the Safety, Security, Safeguards and Human Factors capability teams. 

In this role, you will lead specialist teams operating across multiple NNL locations and remotely. The capability delivers a broad range of technical substantiation and underpinning against nuclear regulation for NNL’s internal and commercial activities focussed on our facilities, operations and projects.

Due to the significant growth in NNL’s operational and project workload there has been an increase in demand for these capabilities. As a result, the capability has doubled in size, and we are seeking a Capability Leader to lead the current and future needs of the capability. 

The capability specialises in underpinning regulatory aspects of facility, operational and project work supporting PMPs, HAZOPs/HAZANs, Engineering Substantiation, PSR through: Safety Security, Criticality, Shielding, Chemotoxic, Safeguards and Human Factors assessments. The capability operates across NNL and collaborates with key customers, including HMG, Defence, EdF, NDA and Sellafield Ltd, supporting a number of key strategic areas in line with NNLs strategic purpose.

The successful candidate will ensure a clear line of sight of all EHSS&Q responsibilities and the availability of 'ready for service' resource to support customer delivery while maintain strong relationships with customers and all touch points throughout the organisation.

The location for this role is flexible and can be based at Risley, Workington or Sellafield.

Main Responsibilities for Capability Leader for Safety, Security, Safeguards and Human Factors: 

EHSS&Q Accountabilities

The CL will be accountable for EHSS&Q within their Capability:

• Understand and comply with all relevant standards and expectation in relation to EHSSQ and Nuclear Professionalism.
• Duty of care for all staff identified.
• Delivery of projects, programmes and technical work.
• Delivery of robust Learning Investigations.
• Delivery of improvement actions from learning investigations, assurance plans and EHSSQ improvement plans.

Capability Accountabilities

The CL will be accountable for all resources within their capability:

• Lead the respective department, and act as mentor to staff enabling growth and improvement across the capability.
• Alignment of resources to meet short, and medium strategic and project requirements.
• Staff: Leadership, performance, SQEP, development, technical training, progression, recruitment.
• Leads on customer delivery, exceling in delivering customer value and building a customer-centric culture.

Budget Control Accountabilities

The CL will be accountable for all budgetary control associated with their capability:

• Staff costs including, recruitment, training, progression, T&S, R&R.

Customer Delivery Accountabilities

The CL will be accountable for all customer delivery associated with their capability:

• Control of both quality, cost and time of delivery execution.
• Customer engagement to maximise all business opportunities.
• Technical excellence in customer delivery.
• Technical resolution.

Leadership Accountabilities

The CL will be accountable for cultural and business strategies associated with their capability:

• Exemplar to their teams of standards, values, behaviours and expectations.
• Provide direction and decision making to their teams.
• To seek to continually improve their areas and seek to optimise effectiveness of delivery.
• Development of the function in line with business requirements and recognising technical advancements.
• Quality of science and customer delivery.

Essential Criteria for Capability Leader for Safety, Security, Safeguards and Human Factors: 

• Significant nuclear knowledge and experience to understand most aspects of safety, security, safeguards and human factors. Expertise in relation to aspects of the SSS capability would be an advantage but not essential.
• Experience in managing several technical capabilities, people, facilities and equipment across nuclear and non-nuclear sites. 
• Experience in developing relationships with customer’s related to technical capability offerings and support delivery of their projects.
• Experience in managing million £ budget, cost control, financial forecasting and planning across a capability.
• Operational experience in highly regularised environment, managing technical and facility programmes to a high EHSS&Q standard. Whilst managing changing and competing priorities and absorbing new information rapidly to address complex issues.
• Experience in leadership and driving cultural change through the support in and implementation of strategic business developments.
• A degree and / or a relevant demonstrable level of experience.
• Experience in managing several differing technical capabilities, people, facilities, and equipment across number of nuclear and non-nuclear sites.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years’ worth of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Capability Leader for Safety, Security, Safeguards and Human Factors: 

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to engage stakeholders and build strong collaborative relationships. 
• Demonstrable ability in negotiation and meeting client requirements. 
• Acts as a role model to NNL’s values and behaviours. 
• Proven ability to lead and inspire others to achieve goals. 
• Strong business and commercial acumen. 
• Dynamic leadership style encouraging continuous improvement and teamworking. 

Why join us?

NNL isn’t just a place where you can do career-defining work that makes a real-world impact. It’s also a place where you’ll feel appreciated and valued. We’re creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We put your wellbeing first, we push you to reach your potential, and we do everything possible to help you feel safe, supported and inspired.

We also offer a range of employee benefits:

• Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage.
• NNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, NNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), NNL will still contribute 10%.
• Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.
• Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK
• Company Bonus: Be rewarded for your contributions.
• Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.
• Employee Assistance: Access support for personal and professional challenges.
• Cycle to Work: Stay active and eco-friendly.
• Life Assurance: Ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
• Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits: Receive support during illness or injury.
• Access to ‘Mydiscounts’ which has a range of special offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance. 
• Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).

About The Company

NNL is an incredible place to work. A place where people do things that have never been done before. A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures, providing reasonable adjustments as appropriate. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging and the ability to access to workplace in a way which works for you.

Recruitment Agency Notice

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