Senior Technical Support Officer

Job Description for Senior Technical Support Officer:

There’s never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At UKNNL, you’ll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career.

We’re an organisation that’s here to experiment and push the limits of what’s possible. So, if you’re keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at UKNNL, anything is possible.

The Senior Technical Support Officer (STSO) is a position of authority within UKNNL supporting the Technical Support Manager (Facilities and Compliance) along with another STSO to ensure the company's continued compliance to all regulations governing the nuclear industry and Site Licence Conditions. The role holder shall be accountable for ensuring that the arrangements for all UKNNL Facilities on the Sellafield site, under their management, comply with all relevant environmental, health, safety, security and management system requirements in order to allow safe occupancy by people.

The job holder will be experienced in working in a regulatory capacity, detail orientated, and be able to work to stringent deadlines.

Main Responsibilities for Senior Technical Support Officer:

• Appointed as a Building Manager and Area Owner for the UKNNL’s Sellafield based Laboratories.
• Deliver management of Legionella, Asbestos and Fire Arrangements ensuring compliance with regulations , ensuring Logbooks and Management Plans are compliant.
• Appointed for key compliance roles including, but not exclusively: Fire Responsible Person, Legionella Responsible Person, Asbestos Co-Ordinator, Task Supervisor/Originator, Building Controller, Emergency Admin Team member.
• Maintain management of House Rules, Safety Signs, Building control points and building maintenance, including building access.
• Ensure compliance with Building Regulations and Workplace Regulations.
• Manage and own the compliance documentation within their area of responsibility, ensuring compliance with records management.
• Ensure appropriate welfare facilities are available (including during emergencies).
• Responsible for strategy and delivery of assurance programmes, writing papers on sustainability and Fire.

Essential Criteria for Senior Technical Support Officer:

• Proven experience of managing fire, legionella and asbestos in a heavily regulated industry.
• NEBOSH Fire Safety or equivalent.
• Asbestos Management qualification (P405/P402) or experience.
• Must demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret complex information from several, sometimes conflicting sources, with a proven problem-solving ability in order to make decisions based upon this information.
• Ability to prioritise, remain calm in pressured circumstances, and ability to influence and negotiate.
• Excellent IT skills and proficient in the use of Microsoft applications.
• Ability to obtain DV level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial, criminal record checks, interview plus 10 years of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Senior Technical Support Officer:

• Experience of working in the nuclear industry.
• IOSH Managing Safely.
• NEBOSH General Certificate.
• Proven experience of managing conventional safety, environmental, welfare and security requirements in a Building Management capacity.
• Compliance professional, educated to HNC level (or equivalent), with extensive practical and relevant experience in a compliance role and holds IOSH Managing Safely.
• Knowledge of DSEAR and COSHH (including Legionella).

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.

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.

Recruitment Agency Notice

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