Electrical and Instrument Team Leader

Job Introduction

Job Description for Electrical and Instrument Team Leader:

There’s never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At NNL, you’ll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career.

We’re an organisation that’s here to experiment and push the limits of what’s possible. So, if you’re keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at NNL, anything is possible.

The Electrical and Instrument Team Leader role is responsible for the capability and capacity management of the Electrical and Instrumentation Craft team, ensuring the team is developed to meet current and future needs in delivering a customer focussed service on statutory maintenance, installations, repairs, calibrations and testing of electrical and instrumentation infrastructure.   

Main Responsibilities for Electrical and Instrument Team Leader:

• Line management of the E&I craft team to ensure safety first approach and sound execution of a proactive and reactive service function to meet compliance and customer needs.
• Lead, mentor and develop the E&I team to foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and innovation.
• Setting clear objectives for the team and at individual level to ensure facility and departmental level objectives are delivered.
• Contribute to maintenance optimisation activities to improve effectiveness and efficiency of the E&I team and also to asset reliability reviews to improve overall equipment effectiveness.
• Manage the deployment of resources & reprioritise as required to balance the needs of EIMT and customer deliverables.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key departmental and facility stakeholders.
• Undertake investigations of asset failures, safety events, undertake PDCA processes, and support the E&I team with identification and ownership of improvement opportunities.
• Contribution to the weekly planning/scheduling and delivery update meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring that team and individual training takes place to agreed standards and timescale.
• Accountable to and deputise for the Engineering Delivery Manager.

Essential Criteria for Electrical and Instrument Team Leader:

• Experience of working in a high hazard environment.
• Experience of E&I activities of structures, systems and components that could have a significant impact to safety.
• Holds an Electrical Craft apprenticeship.
• Proven ability in managing conflicting priorities.
• Proven ability to deliver improvements and manage change in the workplace.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Willing to work flexibly outside of normal working hours (when required).
• Requirement to become appointed as Task Supervisor.
• Requirement to be appointed as Building Controller.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years’ worth of UK residency). 

Desirable Criteria for Electrical and Instrument Team Leader:

• Knowledge of lean, 5S, TPM,
• IEE 18th Edition.
• IOSH / NEBOSH qualification.

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. 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.

Recruitment Agency Notice

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned.

United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory