Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for a Senior Engineering Manager within the repository and Low Activity Waste (LAW) engineering management team.
As senior engineering manager, you will be responsible for developing engineering strategy, programme and leading a system engineering approach to development of safe solutions in specified areas of expertise. This includes coordinating input from the wider engineering function into the programmes where specialist discipline input is needed.
You will contribute to:
- Leading engineering feasibility
- To understand whether the requirements for construction, sustainable design, and the ability to accommodate the inventory for disposal can be satisfied.
- To enable a investment and progression decisions.
- Engineering input to system requirements definition.
- Development of design strategies.
- Being the customer for engineering design process development.
- Engineering input to site characterisation planning, consents and permits.
- Engineering input to our delivery operating model, business cases and procurement of our design delivery partner.
- Pre-concept design, including development of the engineering knowledge base needed to inform early design decisions.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Intelligent Client / Intelligent Customer for engineering design services.
- Delegated Design Authority and / or Project Technical Integrator for appropriate aspects of design and management of supply change interface.
Technical authority within area of responsibility. - Champion a systems engineering approach to deliver development of safe engineered solutions from the supply chain.
- Provide professional and / or mentoring support to the Engineering Managers and peers within your knowledge base.
- Strategy, risk management and programme development.
- Delegate for Principal Engineering Manager
Experience Required
Essential
- Aligned to organisational values and behaviours of action-orientated, ambitious, integrity, collaborative and inclusive.
- Good first degree in relevant subject or equivalent qualification.
- Chartered membership or fellowship status of relevant professional institution.
- Demonstrated ability to represent business in regulatory, commercial, professional and stakeholder environments.
- Engineering experience in a field of relevance to nuclear waste.
Desirable
- Senior practitioner within own engineering discipline.
- Experience of systems engineering and management of contracts for safety integrated engineering design development.
- Detailed understanding of aspects relevant to development, transport infrastructure, and operational estates within own technical discipline.
- Experience of the client to supply chain relationship and understanding of the Intelligent Customer role.
- Experience in developing a scope of works and undertaking the specification, management, and oversight of contracts for design.
- Project/ programme management experience, including risk and opportunity management.
- Experience of early design phases of major engineering projects is essential, such as front-end engineering design, concept design, design strategy development or similar.
- Experience in one or more of infrastructure, nuclear, mining, waste management or other high-hazard industries.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary engineering management, with sufficient cross-discipline awareness to provide direction and coordination.
