Reliability Engineers

Starting Salary: £42,501 / £48,336 with the opportunity to earn: £44,574 / £50,810 + an annual company bonus of up to £4k.
Working Pattern: Days  (37.5 hours per week, typical hours are 07:30 – 15:40 or 08:10 – 16:20)
Location: Sellafield, West Cumbria

What will the Successful Candidate be Doing:

We’re looking for a variety of experienced Engineers to join us in the work that we’re doing here at Sellafield. If you think this could be your next challenge, we want to hear from you.

Reliability Engineers:

Reliability Engineers support the delivery of an engineering reliability service, increasing the mean time between repair of assets and equipment reliability process to enable the development and maintenance of asset strategies to meet business requirements.

Principle Accountabilities Include:

• Support the development of modifications including identification of need, requirements and design work to enable optimal system performance.
• Contribute to the review all design proposals, testing and installation procedures and modification reviews providing technical guidance as required to ensure effective and smooth change transitions.
• Review and maintain the asset register and configuration management of the defined assets to enable optimal system performance.
• Verify the alignment between risk assessments cases, engineering schedule and maintenance management system is current and valid.
• Comply with legal obligations such as PUWER, LOLER, PSSR’s, Legionella, etc. regulations are clearly understood, appropriate arrangements implemented and managed across the site physical assets.
• Establish asset condition and collaborate with asset management colleagues to assess and understand asset life and recommend risk management strategies to enable appropriate asset use.
• Support the development of, implement and maintain asset strategies for their assigned system / equipment to meet business requirements.
• Monitor and evaluate asset performance for example through observation, review of work logs and histories and regular walk downs to maintain awareness of current condition, performance and environmental impacts.
• Identify issues with assets, engaging with specialists, to initiate appropriate mitigation and implement and maintain common asset strategies to maximise business benefit.
• Prepare and present periodic health reports and maintain long range plans for the assets to ensure optimal asset performance.

Why choose Sellafield? Seventy-five years ago, we helped to create the nation’s nuclear deterrent. Today, we’re using our unrivalled knowledge of nuclear to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.

In cleaning up the birthplace of the UK’s nuclear industry, we are once again generating growth and employment in West Cumbria, the North West of England and beyond.

Our 11,000 strong workforce is joined by more than 40,000 people from the best of the best in the nuclear supply chain, from small Cumbrian businesses to global market leaders. We need this diversity of thinking, of backgrounds, cultures and experiences.

What’s in it for you? At Sellafield Ltd, we are an organisation that is committed to supporting employees fulfil their potential. With comprehensive training and development opportunities, we will enable you to feel inspired in your role.

We also offer a range of employee benefits:

• Be a part of Sellafield’s 100 year mission.
• An attractive defined contribution pension scheme - the company will match up to 13.5% for a 7% employee contribution!
• You will benefit from an annual bonus of up to £4k made up of company and personal performance.
• 25.5 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays. Rising to 30 days annual leave from 1st April 2024. There is also the ability to purchase 3 additional days.
• The ability to carry over 5 days (rising to 10 from 1st April 2024) annual leave each financial year.
• Paid Sick Leave.
• Family Friendly Policies – Visit our Rewards & Benefits page to read more.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Lifestyle Benefits sasra.co.uk
• Learning & Development Opportunities https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/learning-and-development/
• Reward & Recognition Policies.
• Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme.
• Free Aviva Health App & Annual Health Check.
• MyDiscounts – Employee Savings & Discounts.
• MyBenefits – A Charity Giving Scheme.
• Many, many more! Click this link to visit our Rewards & Benefits page: https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/rewards-and-benefits/

Sellafield has a proud vision of Diversity & Inclusion that aims to attract candidates into an inclusive and supportive workplace. We are honoured to be recognised as a Level 3 Disability Confident Employer.

The Ideal Candidate: We’re looking for people that have good knowledge in Engineering, whether this may be through direct experience, or through transferable skills.

Essential Skills:

• Higher level qualification or equivalent training/experience in an Engineering/Maintenance discipline.
• Demonstrable understanding and application of Equipment Reliability processes or provision of support to front line maintenance delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of ensuring / improving plant and equipment reliability and availability.
• Demonstrable experience of acting as a subject matter expert for both internal and external stakeholders.

Desirable Skills:

• Chartered / Incorporated Engineer status or potential to achieve with an accredited professional institute.
• Engineering qualification and experience in Engineering/Maintenance role or an environment of similar context and complexity.
• Demonstrable evidence of acting as a role model to promote and challenge behaviours and change.
• Demonstrable evidence of complying with appropriate regulations, standards and policies.

  Please remember:

• In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, Sellafield Ltd reserves the right to close the advert early.
• Please regularly check your Spam/Junk folders for news about this vacancy, correspondence could contain invitations to interview and other important updates.