Engineering Technical Support Team Leader
Role Responsibility
Health and Safety leadership
The health and safety of their personnel, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and the implementation of NNL EH&S Policy. Ensuring adherence to the NNL Integrated Management System/site licensee requirements.
Staff leadership
Ensure team members reach their full potential through effective leadership, performance management and coaching.
Roles, procedures and instructions
Ensure adequate control and supervision is in place at all times for their team and that employees are suitably qualified, competent and experienced to fulfil their roles.
Organisation of team
Support site management and utilisation team to organise work week and daily plans, ensuring staff performance optimised. Ensure appropriate accountabilities and responsibilities are in place across team.
Training and development
Initiate and deliver appropriate recruitment, team development and technical training strategies to meet demand and maintenance of capability.
Delivery of work
Ensure efficient and effective use of people and resources to achieve business goals. Assist site manager and utilisation managers in work planning activities ensuring adequate capacity plans are in place to deliver site business requirements. Act as subject matter expert for technical issues supporting team in resolving emergent issues. Assist site manager in monitoring team/individual key performance indicators and deal with poor performance through issue of performance improvement plans.
Customer Interaction
Maintain and develop internal/external customer networks, ensuring appropriate customer interface is in place for area.
Continuous Improvement
Ensure that Lean management principles are implements and that a culture of continuous improvement exists within the site. Maintain technical knowledge of site to ensure capability improvements are seen. Shall promote best practice within the team by for example providing briefs on Operational Experience Feedback (OEF) to staff through tool box talks.
Security Management
Maintaining the standards of security expected of their personnel, and the implementation of the NNL Security Policy, which covers physical, personnel and information security.
The Ideal Candidate
Electrical and/or Mechanical qualified to HNC level
Supervisory/leadership experience. Previous experience of supervising technical/service delivery teams
- Ability to be become SC/DV Security Cleared
- IOSH Managing Safety / NEBOSH
- Able to demonstrate awareness of nuclear safety and security requirements applicable to their area(s) of responsibility
- Demonstrable knowledge of the operational & maintenance requirements associated with their area(s) of control
- Required to become appointed as Safety Supervisor
- Required to become appointed as a Person Organising Work (POW)
- Requirement to become appointed as a Sub Contractor Supervisor
- Required to become appointed to an emergency response role e.g. Access Controller, Deputy Access Controller, Information Liaison Officer, Board Manager etc. as applicable.
- Required to become appointed as a Classified or Monitored Worker
About the Company
Grounded in robust science and decades of experience, National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) is the authoritative voice in the UK and beyond for technological development within the nuclear power sector.
Our unparalleled understanding of the science, challenges and opportunities makes us an unrivalled authority and partner in the field, providing experts, technologies, and access to cutting-edge facilities to organisations around the world.
Harnessing potential technologies and translating them into to industry-ready solutions means our pioneering approach spearheads international improvement and technological progress.
We work on projects as small as drilling a hole to analyse underground wastes with our integrated micro drilling technology, or as large as developing state-of-the-art power systems for spacecraft, based on radioactive materials
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