Group Leaders/First Line Leaders for Engineering & Technical teams

Job Description

Based at one of the nuclear support function locations in Gloucester Business Park

Hybrid with a minimum of 2-3 days in the office per week. Please note we are happy to accept full time and part-time applications for this role. 

Are you passionate about developing a group and leading a team towards delivering successful business outcomes across a range of projects? Do you stand out for your collaborative and empathetic approach to working with others? Are you known for making effective decisions that deliver business outputs whilst understanding the commercial environment you are operating in?  

Then we have a role for you!   

The Opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity as a first line leader role to work within Nuclear Services who support our 3 licensees in the Nuclear Family.  

We are looking for those who aspire to be a first line leader within our organisations and who have the aspiration to lead from the front and who can successfully lead and develop teams.

Nuclear Services 

The primary purpose of the business is to provide ‘world leading technical services to all EDF Nuclear licensees in the UK’.  Working within Nuclear Services provides a unique opportunity to work across the full nuclear lifecycle with responsibility for leading a group, which demands significant influence, and direction setting across the function, Nuclear Services and within the Licensees.  Licensee interactions will primarily be with the Licensee Technical Directorates as well as via the various Project entities.  A key part of the role is the effective management of key senior stakeholders including regulators and requires close working with peers across Nuclear Services. 

For further details about the vacancies, please scroll to the end of the advertisement.

Nuclear Family 

The Nuclear family is made-up of our three licensees - Nuclear Operations, Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C alongside our servicing parts of the business - Nuclear Services as our technical services and EPR Engineering as our EPR Design servicing team.   
 

What you’ll be doing

Your role will involve delivering the Branch’s objectives within your group, ensuring alignment with both the Branch and wider Nuclear Services strategies. You'll be responsible for establishing and communicating clear priorities for the group, while also ensuring these align with the overarching goals of the Nuclear Family. This includes developing and delivering short, medium, and long-term (rolling 5-year) business plans for the group.

A key aspect of your role will involve effectively negotiating and influencing senior internal and external stakeholders, maintaining strong relationships with regulatory bodies, and cultivating a high level of mutual trust. You'll be expected to manage and control the group’s budget and costs, providing timely and accurate reports in accordance with organisational requirements.

You’ll be supporting the group in executing activities outlined in the task order. You'll continuously seek and monitor opportunities for growth and development, helping the group evolve and improve. This will involve ensuring all activities are well-resourced and effectively managed, with a focus on maintaining high standards.

You will be managing the well-being, objectives, and development of group members. You'll ensure that their needs are met, while ensuring the group remains productive, motivated, and aligned with the branch’s goals.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary of £80,000 to £90,000, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal. 

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.  

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.  

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.   

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.  

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal. 

Who you are

Your background may include a degree in engineering or a science discipline, or equivalent experience. You should have the ability to manage change effectively in a dynamic environment and collaborate flexibly with multi-disciplinary teams. Additionally, you should be able to quickly understand a wide range of technical issues and make well-informed decisions.

Experience in delivering project or strategy recommendations to senior leaders is important, along with the ability to motivate teams to perform at their best. You'll also need to ensure that risks are kept As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP).

Knowledge of Nuclear Plant design in the UK, whether under construction, in operation, or being defueled, is desirable. Familiarity with UK-specific legislative requirements, including Nuclear Site Licence Conditions, is also a plus.

If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!

Closing date: 23rd March 2025
Interviews will take place on week commencing 7th April 2025. 

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Vacancies in Engineering 

Engineering carries out a range of activities and holds a key role in underpinning the safety, quality and schedule for supported nuclear power station throughout their life cycle. We work collaboratively with our stakeholders as part of multidisciplinary teams to provide clients with what is needed to address aspects of the EPR design deployment and construction in the UK, whilst ensuring continuous electricity generation and safe defueling through the existing fleet. The range of expertise within Engineering covers Civil, Electrical, Mechanical (Systems & components) and Instrumentation and Controls. 

Mechanical Group Leads, Mechanical Branches (Systems and Components), Engineering  

Mechanical discipline covering Mechanical Systems and Mechanical Components branches in Engineering have ~ 130 competent engineers across 9 groups covering whole of mechanical plant -  Nuclear Island and Conventional island systems and components, transverse groups covering Equipment qualification, Fire, HVAC, Lifting Handling, Radwaste, pipework’s , emergency generation, turbines and dynamics monitoring etc. There are Group Lead vacancies across the branches to lead one of the groups.

Nuclear Analysis 

The Nuclear Analysis function contains a wide array of specialist nuclear capabilities required to support the safe and reliable operation of the existing fleet of reactors as well as to support the development and operation of future projects.  This range of expertise covers nuclear fuel, reactor physics, transient analysis, thermal hydraulics, criticality, radiological consequences, dosimetry and shielding, probabilistic safety analysis (PSA), hazards, severe accident and human factors. 

Thermal Hydraulics Group Lead, Fuel and Core Branch, Nuclear Analysis 

The Thermal Hydraulics Group is responsible for assessing, reviewing and advising on operational and design changes that affect the heat and flow performance of station plant systems and components in support of safe, reliable generation in the UK.  

The group has a strong engineering and system analysis background and uses a range of analytical methods to undertake nuclear power station system & plant control assessments, ranging from basic hand calculations to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. 

Engineering

Supports the AGR fleet, SZB, HPC and SZC. Provision of design authority intelligent customer capability and expertise across systems, structures and components and responsible for nuclear technical coordination on behalf of our licensees. 

Rotating Electrical Plant Group Lead, Electrical Branch, Engineering 

The Rotating Electrical Plant Group is responsible for handling Nuclear Services tasks related to HV, MV, and LV motors, emergency generation systems (including Diesel Generators and Gas Turbines), main generators and their auxiliaries (including excitation systems), gas circulators, reactor coolant pump motors, electrical equipment qualification, and electrical system safety cases. With teams based in Gloucester and Glasgow, the group offers technical support across all three licensees, ensuring comprehensive expertise and service delivery.

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