Area Engineering Lead - Nuclear Safety & Delivery

NRL; England; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NRL seeks an Area Engineering Manager for a major programme at Sellafield, Cumbria, with occasional travel to Warrington. The role oversees engineering across the lifecycle in a highly regulated, safety-critical setting, providing technical leadership and ensuring scope is delivered safely and to quality, cost and schedule targets.

The role requires significant design and governance experience, with strong stakeholder management and the ability to drive technical decisions across interfaces and

Qualifications

• Significant engineering experience in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment.
• Extensive experience in engineering design and professional engineering judgement.
• Proven experience leading and coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience managing complex engineering solutions, technical interfaces, risks and design changes.
• A strong understanding of engineering governance, design assurance and verification.
• Experience delivering engineering scope against cost, schedule and quality requirements.
• Knowledge of CDM 2015 and relevant regulations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Take technical responsibility for engineering solutions, ensuring technical integrity and compliance with project requirements.
• Manage engineering scope, requirements, interfaces, technical risks and design deliverables.
• Lead engineering integration, technical decision-making and the resolution of complex engineering issues.
• Ensure appropriate engineering governance, design assurance, verification and change-control processes are followed.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with relevant legislation, standards, nuclear safety requirements and CDM Regulations 2015.
• Manage engineering delivery against agreed cost, schedule, quality and resource requirements.
• Work collaboratively with Project Managers, Engineering Leads, Safety Case, Operations, Construction, Commissioning and supply-chain stakeholders.
• Promote engineering excellence, quality and a strong nuclear safety culture throughout project delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Regulated environment

Communication

Project coordination

Job description

NRL seeks an Area Engineering Manager for a major programme at Sellafield, Cumbria, with occasional travel to Warrington. The role oversees engineering across the lifecycle in a highly regulated, safety-critical setting, providing technical leadership and ensuring scope is delivered safely and to quality, cost and schedule targets.

The role requires significant design and governance experience, with strong stakeholder management and the ability to drive technical decisions across interfaces and