About the job

Job summary

This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking at developing their regulatory knowledge in the Defence environment. The successful candidate will be working within the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator's Team, within the wider Defence Safety Authority, with a key responsibility to provide Regulatory advice, guidance and identification of Enforcement action under Nuclear Authorisation.

Inspector Transport-b, is an exciting opportunity, responsible for regulating nuclear and radiological safety and Transport activities in support of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, through providing formal regulatory advice and guidance within your delegated regulated authority on Transport. You will be seeking assurance and through life nuclear safety compliance with Defence Regulations for the granting or withholding of permission for activities in the NNPP or NWP which may present a nuclear or radiological hazard to the workforce, the public or the environment. Implementing the DSA Enforcement Management Model (EMM) upon activity in support of the NNPP or NWP if, in your professional opinion, safety standards have been, or are likely to be, compromised to an unacceptable degree.

Your average day to day activity will be to Conduct compliance inspections of the Authorisees arrangements against defence regulations and support the Authorisee in demonstrating sustained compliance of safe nuclear operations. You will also be expected to assess the demonstration of nuclear emergency response arrangements, at various locations around the country.  

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.  This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements. 

Job description

Your main responsibilities as the DSA-IT-b

• Support the intervention plan, to review progress and to report interventions, drawing conclusions and making recommendations for the DNSR annual assurance report.
• Seek assurance of compliance with the regulatory requirements set out in extant regulations, including inspection planning, implementation and reporting.
• To seek demonstration of a safety culture (Leadership & Management for Safety) by the Authorisee, and the application of a Security Informed Nuclear Safety (SINS) approach and assess its manifestation in the operation and sustainment of nuclear safety.

• To assist and provide briefs for DNSR Principal Inspector Transport, DNSR NWR, NPR and DNSR Head as required.
• To develop and maintain arrangements and procedures within DNSR to enable the regulation of Class 7 Dangerous Goods Transport.
• Support regulatory inspections and assessments connected with other areas of DNSR and regulatory organisations as required.
• Emergency Task
• Support IT in assessing the Authorisee's Emergency Arrangements through annual exercises.
• Support the DNSR in the event of a DNP emergency and during DNP emergency exercises in accordance with our Local Working Instructions, that you will also have the opportunity to write and support.
• Support the development and implementation of the DNSR emergency response capability.

 

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work on a wide range of nuclear projects at all CADMID cycle stages, directly influencing the safety of Commissioning, Operational and Decommissioning phases. The post will develop your competence in nuclear safety and safety regulation and across the range of core competences.

People Management

• DNSR-IT-b is responsible for meeting statutory health & safety and employment legislation.
• Support regulatory Inspections and assessments connected with other areas of DNSR regulation as required.
• Work will mainly be based in Abbey Wood, Bristol, however there will be lots of opportunities to visit other Defence Nuclear Sites.

The role offers the opportunity for hybrid and flexible ways of working are fully supported and combines working from home, office work at Abbey Wood and regular visits to other Nuclear Facilities. Where responsibilities interface, there is collaboration with other defence and civil, statutory regulators.  It is anticipated that approximately 60% of your time will be at either Abbey Wood offices or on site, however this is open to agreement with your Line Manager and can vary from week to week.

 

Policy

• To align with and enforce DSA regulatory policy and contribute to its continuous development.

Meetings

• DNSR-IT-b will support or represent the principle Inspector Transport as necessary at a variety of meetings, with the Authorisee, Other Government Departments, Statutory Regulators and the Ministry of Defence Police to name but a few.

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Person specification

Your skills and qualifications as DNSR-IT-b:

Essential:

• HNC / Degree level qualification or equivalent in a STEM field or equivalent experience
• 24 months experience working within the Defence Nuclear Enterprise or Civil equivalent, undertaken within the last two years.

Desirable:

• Membership of relevant scientific or engineering institute

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include: job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability.

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership 

At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership

Successful candidates will need to complete the application in a Situation Task Action Result (STAR) format for both the written application and if called for interview. Candidates should expect to be questioned on a multitude of examples.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk  

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.  

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.  

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 developed vetting (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

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.