Want to feel like you are making a real difference in the Nuclear sector?
Come and join our talented team where you will play a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects.
At Orno, our people are our biggest asset. By investing in our staff and fostering a culture of continued professional development within the company, we combine the skills and experience of our teams with our commitment to a professional and high-quality level of service. We believe in the importance of developing and maintaining a good working environment to support staff development.
We understand that different people have different priorities, which is why we pride ourselves on our supportive and friendly environment and ability to provide flexible hybrid working arrangements. Site Locations Include: Warrington, Abingdon and or Westlakes.
Whether you’re working from an Orano office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. No matter where you sit in the organisation you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.
Location
The role can based at our Westlakes or Warrington office
- Travel may be required on occasion between Orano offices and Client sites
Your purpose
To establish and maintain a competent process engineering community across Orano Ltd. staffed by suitably qualified and experienced (SQEP) resources required to deliver Orano commitments and to guide the development of pragmatic, fit-for-purpose EC&I engineering solutions for all Orano Ltd. projects.
Accountabilities:
- Developing, maintaining, and sustaining the process engineering capabilities needed to deliver the engineering function.
- Guide development of pragmatic, fit-for-purpose EC&I engineering solutions for all projects.
- Ensuring that the EC&I engineering staff deployed to the business are suitably qualified and experienced (SQEP) and capable of fulfilling their assigned roles.
- Acquiring and allocating internal EC&I engineering resources, enabling resource mobility, and optimising resource deployment to maximise value.
- Working to develop, maintain and apply EC&I engineering procedures, standards and guides.
- Recommending EC&I engineering Supply Chain capability requirements and links with parent companies and professional bodies to develop a strategic network of resources and ready access to subject matter experts.
- Selection, SQEPing and appointment of Principal Engineers and direct reports.
- The leadership, mentoring, health, safety, career development and performance management of direct reports.
- Ensuring that appropriate single discipline design reviews are carried out and multi-discipline design reviews are supported in a timely manner.
- Providing consultancy support, advice and guidance on EC&I engineering matters.
- Providing EC&I engineering support to ensure that design engineering related risks are identified, and mitigation plans developed.
- Supporting communication and liaison with regulators as required.
- Reviewing pertinent EC&I engineering legislation and ensuring that relevant requirements are incorporated in engineering procedures.
- Collation and dissemination of EC&I engineering LFE.
Authorities:
- To work within financial delegations
- Appointment of Principal Engineers.
- In conjunction with the Head of Engineering, set the strategy for recruitment and management of EC&I engineering resources.
- Recruitment, deployment, and redeployment (mobility) of EC&I engineering resources.
- Intervention to resolve conflicts and, if necessary, recommend suspension of work related to EC&I engineering matters.
- Access to enable EC&I engineering related audits to be conducted.
- Approval and implementation of EC&I engineering procedures, guides and standards.
- Prioritisation and allocation of work assignments within EC&I engineering.
Requirements
- Buidling and developing relationships is a key part of this role. You will have excellent communication, mentoring and stakehodler management skills.
- Ability to independently seek out or develop one's own answer to challenging technical questions.
- Ability to organise one's own time and the time of others to ensure internal/external deadlines are achieved and Client expectations are exceeded.
- Desire for self-development; to learn and develop within the role and develop others when required.
- Minimum: BEng (Hons) in Electronic/Electrical Engineering or closely related subject.
- Professional Membership: Chartered Engineer (CEng) MIET or MNucl. Equivalent experience can be offered in lieu of chartership if it is deemed appropiate by Head of Engineering.
- Extensive experiencein EC&I Engineering. Recent experience working in regulated and quality assured systems in nulcear roles where engineering judgement is a key attribute.
- Extensive experience of delivering complex EC&I engineering packages, for a number if plant types at different lifecycle stages, demonstrating the capability to lead a dedicated team with an established reputation in this field at national/international level.
- Experience of using knowledge and expertise from elsewhere to develop new ideas/ways of working to provide added value while managing the delivery variations and identifying innovations to support future development.
- Extensive experience of interfacing with other discipline specialists as well as leading a multi-disciplinary team, e.g. other engineering disciplines, shielding, safety etc.
- Experience in acting as an Intelligent Client/Independent Subject Matter Expert within the assurance process (e.g. design review, peer review, independent technical assessment etc).
- Experienced in undertaking the role of lead author/checker/approver for complicated EC&I engineering activities and deliverables for high hazard category facilities/palnts.
The successful candidate must, by the start of employment, have permission to work in the UK, and be willing to undergo a security vetting process.
We value the transferable skills you gained from your previous work or personal experiences. we’re looking for people who are:
- Good communicators and listeners
- Empathetic
- Resilient
- Authentic
- Curious
- Adaptable
The successful candidate must, by the end of the employment, have permission to work in the UK, and be willing to obtain SC clearance.
Why work for Orano Limited
Orano’s purpose is to provide customers with high performing products and services throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, thereby fully contributing to the efficient production of low-carbon nuclear energy, cancer-fighting radioisotopes, and innovative industrial applications.
Globally headquarters in Paris, with 16,000 employees worldwide, Orano includes eight primary business lines: Mining; Conversion & Enrichment; Logistics, for managing used nuclear fuel; Recycling & Nuclear Waste Management; Decommissioning & Dismantling; Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering; Operations Support, including radiological safety; and Nuclear Medicine.
These fuel cycle activities are of strategic importance to both the French nuclear sector and all customers operating reactors worldwide. Our clients are our number one priority and we are committed to providing a professional service to the highest standards of quality. We are a friendly company, place great emphasis on our working relationships and recognise the importance of partnering in our work.
Our Culture
Our ethos aligns with the Orano values of customer satisfaction; continuous improvement; respect and people development; exemplarity, integrity and responsibility; cohesion and team spirit. Building on these values, we have fostered a working culture that prioritises safety, performance and respect for everyone we work with, whether this relates to our clients, partners, or our own staff.
At Orano, we take pride in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and their contributions are valued. When we recruit, hire, train, promote or engage in any other employment practice we are opposed to any kind of less favourable treatment or financial reward to our employees or job applicants on the grounds of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background. We welcome all applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
Meeting your needs
To help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we offer employees:
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays. You will also get an additional 1 day off for every 1-year service which is capped at 30
- A competitive salary
- Professional Membership
- Annual bonus scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Non-contribution pension scheme
- Enhanced Maternity Pay
- Group Income Protection
- Group Life Insurance
- Sports allowance
- Online discount platform
If you want to be part of the future, click on the below link and submit your CV to our Orano Group page.
EC&I Engineering Discipline Lead | Regular/Permanent | Orano Jobs