Emergency Shift Manager (ESM) - Sizewell C

Staffline; Leiston; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading security firm is seeking an Emergency Shift Manager for their operations at Sizewell C in Leiston. This role involves 24/7 duty with responsibilities including managing emergency responses and leading incident control teams. Ideal candidates will have significant management experience and qualifications in crisis or emergency management. The position offers a competitive salary of up to £75K per annum and various employee benefits.

Benefits

20 days leave per year

G4S National Pension Scheme

Dell, Vodafone and O2 discounts

Health Saturday Fund

Qualifications

• Proven experience in high-tempo, operational theatre roles.
• Ability to lead teams in demanding environments.
• Strong judgment and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Set up and manage the Emergency Control Centre.
• Ensure tactical decisions are documented for audit.
• Coordinate multi-agency responses during incidents.

Skills

Management skills

Leadership

Communication

Education

Degree in Crisis or Emergency Management

Degree level Leadership and Management

HSE Diploma

Job description

Overview

This role will be employed by G4S but will hold duty responsibility for Sizewell C (SZC), therefore be an integral part of the client team. The on duty SZC Emergency Shift Manager (ESM) assumes and retains overall command for the operation or incident. They have responsibility and authority for the site tactical procedures based from the Emergency Control Centre (EmCC). The role will be one of four/five ESMs who will hold equivalent authority when on duty and hold a nominated specialism related to the phase of construction, as detailed by the Licence Condition (LC) 11 – On-site Emergency Arrangements Lead. This LC forms the basis of this role. The EmCC will be fed information from Operational Management via the Security Control Room (SCR) including Incident Controllers, Duty Managers, and specialist response, and will be populated with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from site depending on the type of incident or event they coordinate and interface with specialists internally and externally.

The ESM should not make operational decisions; instead, the ESM focuses on tactical responses, coordination and recovery. They are responsible for ensuring that any tactics deployed are proportionate to the risks identified, meet the objectives of the strategy and are legally compliant. They must be capable and confident in briefing at a strategic level during an incident and will report directly to the Site Operations Site Lead, Construction, and Site Operations Directors.

The Areas of Responsibility (AOR) sit within the Main Development Site (MDS) and Off Site Infrastructure (OSI) pending individual site incident management plans. They will also manage situations on Public Highways that involve SZC workforce or assets, including freight delivery to site. It is essential this role enables the maintenance of situational awareness and anticipates the "So What" to ensure the appropriate resources are available to fulfill tasks and site incident response as required. To achieve this, the ESM will be expected to be immersed within the different Construction disciplines (Civils, Site Operations, Marine, Tunnelling, Nuclear Island, Balance of Plant, etc.) to understand the construction activity and associated safety risks, which may require an emergency response in the event of an incident.

The ESM must be confident in the recovery process post incident/event, including evidence collection, investigation and returning to Business As Usual (BAU).

This is a duty role, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Role holders will complete 12-hour shifts, on a rotation of 4-on-4-off, including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.

Location: Sizewell C Nuclear Development, Ancillary Construction Area, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4UR

Salary: Up to 75K per annum or hourly rate £34.25 per hour

Time at Work: Average 42 hours per week, based on a 12 hour shift pattern rotating through days, nights and weekends. Built into this shift pattern will be a period of Mon to Fri Office Role for continuity and management of the function.

Key Responsibilities

The SZC "on duty" Emergency Shift Manager has the responsibility to ensure they are prepared to carry out their role. This includes:

• Keeping up to date with the policies and processes used for major incidents
• Protect life, property, environment and information
• Be aware of and understand the multi-agency command structure, commander roles, responsibilities, requirements and capabilities (including gaps), and monitor the operational command structure, including functional roles
• Establish and Manage the EmCC at the earliest opportunity
• Establish shared situational awareness between the responder organisations at the tactical level and promote effective decision making, using the Joint Decision Model (JDM)
• Develop and agree the overall joint intent, regularly assessing and sharing the information and intelligence available
• Understand how ever-changing threats and hazards affect each organisation, and work with multi-construction disciplines and multi-agency colleagues to develop a joint understanding of risk, putting in place appropriate mitigation and management arrangements to continually monitor and respond to the changing nature of emergencies for the organisation
• Ensure that statutory responsibilities are met for health, safety, human rights, data protection and welfare of people during the incident
• Address the longer-term priorities in the recovery of the Construction site through restoration of essential services
• Warn and inform the Site Workforce by providing accurate and timely information, using the appropriate media channels
• Where necessary make the Strategic Commander aware of the incident and the common operating picture
• Ensure that all tactical decisions made, and the rationale behind them, are documented in a decision log, ensuring that a clear audit trail exists for all multi-agency debriefs and future multi-agency learning
• Debrief the Incident Controller and onsite and offsite operational commanders, ensuring any issues that have affected interoperability are shared using Joint Organisational Learning (JOL)
• Responsible for the Suitably Qualified and Experienced Person (SQEP) profiles for all nominated EmCC specialists, including but not limited to: Assistant, Loggist, Health and Safety, Environmental, Communication, Site Operations, Construction Manager/PM, Security, Occ Health, Welfare, IR, onsite and off-site Blue Light response Commanders and others.

Skills and Competencies

• Knowledge of Health & Safety procedures, policies and best working practices
• Strong and proven management and leadership skills with excellent communication, influencing, negotiating and engagement abilities
• Sound judgment and decision making, with a hands-on problem-solving approach, able to remain calm under pressure and take control of SMEs to ensure effective communication and management of an incident/event
• Innovative in approach, supportive and adaptable to change
• Team work, able to work with counterparts to ensure effective delivery of the EmCC, training and exercising

Profile

Educational Requirements/Qualifications

• Ideally (but not essential) a Degree in Crisis or Emergency Management
• Ideally (but not essential) Degree level Leadership and Management
• Ideally (but not essential) a HSE Diploma
• Ideally (but not essential) Emergency Planning College certifications

Preferred Experience

• A professional leader with prior experience in corporate, Critical National Infrastructure, uniformed services or heavy industrial environments
• Experience of leading teams in a demanding environment
• Enthusiastic and committed with a track record of building strong, trust-based relationships with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels
• Experience of training and mentoring
• Proven experience in a high tempo, operational theatre in a pressurised role

Personal Qualities

• Highest levels of integrity, respectfulness and professionalism
• An engaging and proactive "can do" attitude where successes and failures are shared
• Doing what we say we are going to do and only committing to what can be done
• Ability to plan ahead and share intelligence to prevent surprises

Specific occupational requirements

• Ability to pass and hold National Security Clearance Vetting (NSV SC)
• Driving Licence

Ref 1G4S - G182

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Key Information and Benefits

• Permanent Contract
• 20 days leave per year
• G4S National Pension Scheme
• Dell, Vodafone and O2 discounts
• Perks at Work (national reward and discount scheme)
• Aviva car, home and travel insurance discount
• Health Saturday Fund (health cash plan for you and your family)

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