About the job

Job summary

ONR do welcome applicants who require sponsorship through the skilled worker route. Unfortunately, this particular role does not meet the eligibility requirements. If you have any questions, please contact onr.human-resources@onr.gov.uk.

ONR is not a Civil Service department, however, we are an arms length body of Department of Work and Pensions.

Job description

About ONR 

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is responsible for the regulation of nuclear safety and security across the UK. Our mission is to provide efficient and effective regulation of the nuclear industry, holding it to account on behalf of the public. 

As part of its 2025 strategy ONR is committed to being a modern and transparent regulator, delivering trusted outcomes and value. We are making substantial investments in new digital technologies and skills to enhance our regulatory processes and management of information.

Job Purpose

This role is predominately power apps model driven app development, providing solutions to business requirements and communicating with the business at many levels. It will require experience of PowerApps (Canvas and model driven), Azure, SQL, Power BI Models/datasets & Power automate.

This is a largely hands-on role for someone who has is keen to develop their career, they will be given the help and support to keep developing their technical skills.

As a Power Platform Support Developer, you will provide essential development support for the business. This is an exciting role in a newly formed team part of the IT department and is essential to ensure that we can meet the needs of the business going forward. Power Platform is being used across the core regulatory functions ONR needs to perform its duties. From data capture to data analysis and trending, it helps us consistently manage our information. This role will be part of the on-going development and support team for the Power Platform.

About the Role

The Power Platform Support Developer will be expected to support the Senior Power Platform Developer to apply a range of techniques in the development, delivery and on-going management of Power Platform services and solutions that either offers actionable insights or solve complex business issues.

Principal Responsibilities

The post will entail working with stakeholders to understand the requirements and to design, develop, test, and deliver solutions to address these requirements. This will include collaborative working in an agile environment and so the ability to communicate effectively with both a technical and a non-technical audience is important.

• The role will involve assessing new methods and technologies (within the power platform and outside) to inform the direction of the development, before implementing recommendations.
• Engagement with process owners and business SMEs to identify or clarify business requirements.
• Work closely with the rest of the IT team to promote good technical architecture and quality, practices, and ethics across the organisation.
• Work closely with the system administration roles to ensure the system is being maintained as expected.

Line Management Responsibilities

None currently, however, at this level there could be an expectation to manage staff in the future.

Location / Travel

This post may be undertaken from a base at any one of ONR’s office locations (Bootle, Cheltenham, or London), however, there is an expectation that attendance is required at the Bootle office on a regular basis.

ONR operates hybrid working (working in the office and or at home) as part of our flexible working policy. There is an expectation that everyone will spend time in the office on a regular basis, recognising that some work is better done face to face. Managers will work with their teams on what works best to meet individual, team, business and organisational needs to enable collaboration, as well as balancing personal choice and wellbeing. 

Security Clearance

BPSS initially however applicant will require secure security clearance to SC level once the role has commenced.

Person specification

Person Specification

ONR is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome and encourage applications from all applicants. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to ensure the recruitment process is inclusive and barrier-free. For example, providing job descriptions in alternative formats, and providing communication support and accessible venues. If you would like to discuss how we can support you, please contact (ONR.Human-Resources@onr.gov.uk/ or 0203 028 0133 / 0203 028 0120) who will be able to provide further information and discuss any reasonable adjustments you may need during the recruitment process. We will offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Applicants also have the choice to opt into our Guaranteed Interview Scheme when completing their application where we will offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

ONR recognises it has a role to play in helping those leaving the Armed Forces (veterans) and have introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans. This is part of a government initiative known as the ‘Great Place to Work for veterans. Veterans are officially defined as anyone who has served for at least one day in His Majesty’s Armed Forces (Regular or Reserve). All veterans who meet the minimum criteria for a role will be invited to interview and they have the choice to opt into this scheme when completing their application. To be eligible to apply for roles under the initiative, veterans must meet certain eligibility criteria below.

• have served for at least one year in His Majesty's Armed Forces (as a Regular or Reserve)
• be in transition from, or ceased to be a member of, His Majesty’s Armed Forces; and
• not already be employed by ONR.

Essential Qualifications

Successful applicants should hold or be willing to achieve the following qualifications within the first 12 months:

• PL-200 (or equivalent) as a minimum
• ITIL Foundation

Skills/Job Related Expertise   

• Experience building Model Driven Apps and Canvas Apps using Microsoft Power Platform
• Experience writing automations for example but not limited to Power Automate Flows
• Experience of working to an agile methodology.
• Development support by following agreed fix processes, carrying out scheduled maintenance.
• Experience of development lifecycle management from conception to deployment
• Knowledge of how to integrate PowerApps and SharePoint lists, Azure SQL and/or other methods of storing data using Microsoft technologies.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively (verbally and in writing) to both technical & non-technical stakeholders; collaborate and lead others to maximise the capture and the use of data to benefit the business.
• Proven ability of managing a quality service whilst being able to manage multiple priorities and optimising processes.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience of JavaScript or other programming languages
• Experience of SharePoint configuration

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,191, Office for Nuclear Regulation contributes £27 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Please submit your application through the recruitment portal on the ONR website directly by clicking onto the link above apply at advertisers site where you can also download full job description.

For Further Information

For more information about this vacancy please contact Lawrence Ferguson: 

* - lawrence.ferguson@onr.gov.uk

How to Apply

Please submit your application through the recruitment portal.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 31 January 2024 at 11:45pm

Your application should include:

• CV to include a full record of your education and professional qualifications and a full employment history.
• A suitability statement (maximum of 800 words) highlighting how you meet the ‘essential skills and experience” required for the role, which will be used at shortlisting in conjunction with your CV.
• Where applicable highlight if you have any experience under ‘desirable skills and experience’ within the application form.

Throughout our shortlisting process, we will make decisions about your capability to do the job, based on evidence you provide against the essential criteria (and the desirable if applicable).

Important guidance when providing CV’s – please upload text-based CVs with no graphics or pictures to ensure the anonymisation function works correctly.

Please note -  if whilst completing your application, you use special characters such as (‘ ; “ - _ * ) within your examples, Hireserve will convert these characters into symbols.  We are currently unable to change this. 

Whilst these examples will appear on your application, this will not prevent it from being reviewed at the shortlisting stage.

 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.