Summary
Job Description for Engineering Design Manager:
UKNNL is where your solutions solve real-world problems. As part of our Engineering team, you'll not only be able to get involved with a huge variety of projects, you'll also have lots of opportunity to drive them through from start to finish - allowing you to see the impact your work has in a real-world environment. This is your chance to use your experience, expertise and ingenuity to collaborate with leading scientists. You'll be part of a team that delivers work to benefit society by advancing cleaner energy, protecting the environment and keeping everyone safe.
As a leader within the Engineering team, you will be responsible for the overall delivery of Engineering Design scope within the UKNNL Central Laboratory, from scope development/ upfront feasibility through to design support to Commissioning activities and design support to operational plant. This role offers an amazing opportunity to deliver multiple projects from cradle to grave which are of national importance to the UK nuclear industry. You'll be a key part of a team that delivers work to benefit society by advancing cleaner energy, protecting the environment, and keeping everyone safe.
The location for this role is flexible and can be based at Sellafield or Risley.
Main Responsibilities for Engineering Design Manager:
To Head of Engineering for:
* Ensuring appropriate and adequate design standards and practices are deployed ensuring deliverables are to the appropriate standards and the solutions generated are safe, legal and adequately underpinned in compliance with UKNNL's Design Process.
* Ensuring the duties of the CDM Principal Designer are adequately discharged.
* Ensuring subject matter experts are appropriately and adequately engaged in a timely manner and LFE captured, disseminated and utilized.
* Ensuring solutions meet agreed performance demands and documents define and preserve the design intent and are organised and align with the plant configuration.
* Ensuring all necessary documentation is generated to meet safety and legal requirements that enable; receipt on a nuclear licensed site, installation, commissioning and taking into service of plant and equipment.
* Providing leadership, support and direction to teams of multi-disciplined Engineers delivering the design work.
* Building strong and trusted relationships with Stakeholders within Engineering and the broader UKNNL.
* Supporting Continuous Improvement activities for improvements within Engineering.
To Project Management for:
* Ensuring work portfolio is delivered and controlled efficiently and effectively to meet agreed specification, cost and schedule.
* Ensuring design solutions are fit for purpose, integrated, affordable and deliver the business case, functional specification and execution plan.
* Ensuring all technical, safety and engineering risks are identified, owned and managed.
* Ensuring status and performance of work in progress is accurate and reported in line with project requirements.
* Ensuring projects have the appropriate SQEP Design resources assigned to project delivery.
Essential Criteria for Engineering Design Manager:
* Qualifications: HNC Engineering.
* Professional Membership: Incorporated Engineer.
* Experience: Significant and demonstrable experience working within a regulated and quality assured system in an Engineering Management role.
* 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 Engineering Design Manager:
* Qualifications: MEng (Hons).
* Professional Membership: Chartered Engineer (Equivalent experience can be offered in lieu if it is deemed appropriate by the Head of Engineering).
* Experience: Significant and demonstrable experience working within the Nuclear industry (preferably Sellafield) in an Engineering Management role.
Why join us?
UKNNL 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.
* UKNNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, UKNNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), UKNNL 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
UKNNL 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
UKNNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where UKNNL 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.
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