Lead Completions Engineer

Location

Sellafield, Cumbria | United Kingdom

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With over 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers exciting opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team that always strives to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ most significant asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. 

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay, free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. 

We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program, which incorporates matched funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns, and locations to suit you and our business.

The Box Encapsulation Plant project is one of the most important construction projects at the Sellafield Site, the plant will play a vital role in Sellafield’s 100-year clean-up programme by taking nuclear waste recovered from the site’s original wasteplants and encasing it in concrete so it can be stored in a modern building. The plant is primarily designed to deal with waste from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, one of four legacy waste plants prioritised for clean-up by Sellafield Ltd’s owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Alongside that work, the plant will also receive certain wastes from the other three legacy waste stores, the First Generation Magnox Storage Pond, the Pile Fuel Storage Pond, and Pile Fuel Cladding Silo. 

The BEP Joint Venture project will safely design and deliver a plant and the works in accordance with the requirements of the contract to enable conditioning of wastes from the various donor plants, carried out in line with the Employer’s needs and to the satisfaction of stakeholders in the Box Encapsulation Project (BEP).

The Lead Completions Engineer reports to the Completions Manager. The Lead Completions Engineer may have junior Completions Engineers and Technicians reporting to them.

The Lead Completions Engineer is responsible for:

• Ensuring Safety is the highest priority on the project with a continued strive towards Zero Harm. They ensure that they are a role model for all aspects of safety, ensuring a proactive approach to nuclear, radiological, conventional and environmental safety.
• Taking part in all completions activities throughout all stages of construction and commissioning.
• Producing completions documentation.
• Organising junior Completions Engineers and Technicians.
• Liaising with the regulatory compliance representatives to ensure completions documentation requirements are expedited.
• Recording of supporting data in accordance with test requirements.
• Ability to utilise completions management systems to manage commissioning activities, and handovers from construction to commissioning and commissioning to client.
• Ability to configure a completions management system.

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Here’s What You’ll Need:

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• Trained in the configuration and management of completions management systems.
• Preference for HNC or equivalent or route to achieve the qualification.
• Project completions experience.

The ability to obtain BPSS & P4 pass is essential for this role.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s –

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