Project Leader - Nuclear Skills & Capability - V04954

Location: Barrow (Hybrid, 3-4 days onsite week)

Duration: 6 Month Contract

Rate: -63.40 per hour umbrella (Inside IR35)

Overview:

• Typically individual contributor roles within Nuclear Discipline, Skills and Capability.
• Works as part of the Nuclear, Skills and Capability team with a high degree of technical autonomy, within established nuclear procedures and practices
• Performs a variety of the most complex tasks around Nuclear Baseline management, Nuclear Training and Nuclear Strategic Workforce management.
• Applies knowledge and experience to systems and processes to diagnose and resolve complex technical problems within the area of responsibility of Nuclear Discipline, Skills and Capability.
• Proposes improvements to nuclear discipline processes
• Contributes or may act as a lead on technical governance nuclear discipline processes
• Provides specialist nuclear discipline technical advice, training and guidance to other professionals, technical staff and/or customers, particularly Fuctional Nuclear Capability Teams
• Establishes and maintains direct contact and interface with stakeholders in relation to the delivery of nuclear discipline projects
• May act as a lead to co-ordinate team members to perform a variety of typically routine tasks (without direct reports)
• Contributes to analysis on complex technical nuclear discipline problems to create solutions where precedent may not exist
• Provides training, skills coaching and mentoring for less experienced team members and customers

Key Deliverables:

• Perform a variety of the most complex tasks, around Nuclear Baseline management, Nuclear Training and Nuclear Strategic Workforce management, working autonomously within established procedures and practices
• Apply technical knowledge and experience of nuclear capability principles, practices and processes
• Use expertise to provide advice and guidance, and training to other professionals within project/team, and to other stakeholders and customers
• Apply knowledge to resolve a wide range of complex technical situations, issues and problems associated with the area of responsibility of Nucler Discipline, Skills and Capability.
• Act as a project focal point for nuclear discipline specific tasks, championing continuous improvement, ensuring best practices are adopted, and ensuring overall compliance to nuclear discipline strategy
• Review and approve solutions to problems or issues including all documentation within own limits of authority, or seek higher level of approval , where required.
• Propose improvements to nuclear capability processes
• Develop processes to ensure nuclear discipline quality requirements and standards are communicated and adhered to by team
• Ensure nuclear discipline processes used by the team meet all governance and business requirements
• Provide governance to a team or project over technical nuclear discipline standards
• Ensure Product Safety requirements and Intellectual Property are considered in activities
• Participate in activities to raise the level of team capability and skills to meet current/future requirements
• May guide and advise other team members on the quality of their work
• May contribute to management reporting on performance to schedule, cost, quality

Key Skills & Experience:

• Considerable experience in nuclear capability, training and shipbuilding
• Experience in defence or safety critical industry
• Good understanding of how own activities integrate into the activities of their own team.
• Good awareness of activities of other teams
• Requires a breadth and depth of specialist technical nuclear capability and shipbuilding knowledge and a broad experience of processes, data, systems and the business environment
• Competent in processes, procedures and standards related to nuclear capability and shipbuilding.
• Full proficiency in required tools and techniques
• Role model for SHEQ and champions procedures for safety controls and hazards awareness in a high risk operational environment.
• Ability to communicate and exchange ideas effectively orally, verbally and in writing.
• Collaborates with others to achieve goals and objectives.
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical instructions and knowledge
• Demonstrates customer focus, demonstrates diplomacy and tactfulness in customer communications
• Analyses the most complex technical problems and deliver solutions where precedent may not exist
• Understands and utilises recognised business approaches, techniques and tools for problem solving
• Researches for information
• Applies analytics to problems and issues
• Assesses the viability and applicability of solutions and evaluates alternatives based on understanding or previous experience of common or routine problems