About the job

Job summary

A great opportunity to be part of the Naval Base Nuclear Safety Assurance team providing nuclear oversight to the HM Naval Base Devonport Authorise. We offer varied, ambitious and exciting jobs supporting Navy Command’s role to generate and operate forces for today and into the future. Navy Command and the Naval Base provides an open, flexible and encouraging work environment with Civil servants and Armed Forces personnel working together in a wealth of interesting and challenging professions in different fields.

Within this role you will be part of a diverse team working alongside Naval Base departments, industry partners and other assurance sections to provide nuclear oversight at HMNB Devonport.

Job description

The Devonport site is a strategic Defence asset as an Operating and Support Base for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, delivering and enabling a range of direct and indirect support services for the Naval Service. Comprising HMS DRAKE, significant industrial facilities and a range of military and non-military lodger units of which, defence Equipment & Support, Submarine Delivery Agency, Flag Officer Sea Training are the most substantial. It is supported by a number of key Industry Partners including Babcock, Mitie and Serco. The Devonport site is characterised as a Base, Barracks, Port Dockyard.

The Naval Base Commander Devonport is responsible for providing a World Class, Secure, Safe, Integrated Operating and Support Base for the Royal Navy; his mission is supporting the Royal Navy Worldwide from Devonport. A key part of this responsibility is the support to the submarine programme and the provision of the Nuclear facilities which are regulated by the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator (DNSR) under DSA02 safety regulations to achieve Nuclear Authorisation.

The Senior Site Engineer is responsible for acting as: the Nuclear Safety Assurance Intelligent Customer for contracted services provided under the Future Maritime Support Programme; the point of contact for Industry Partner Safety Improvement Programmes; providing support to the Nuclear Engineering Safety Committee, including the nuclear safety engineering assessment of documents, concessions and design changes, and is the subject matter expert for Organisational change and capability where this may have an effect on the Nuclear Baseline.

Person specification

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

To enact the role of the Devonport Nuclear Safety Assurance (NSA) Intelligent Customer (IC) on behalf of the MOD as the contracting Authority delivered by any Industry Provider. To maintain technical competence, to set the requirements in liaison with NSA Subject Matter Experts and understand the relevant areas of the Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP) contract. Act as co-ordinator and first point of contact within the NSA area for all matters regarding FMSP and any replacement contract on behalf of Dep Hd NSA.

To act as point of contact for Industry Partner Safety Improvement Programmes (including, but not limited to Asset Management Programmes, Nuclear Safety Improvement Programmes etc). This is to include liaison with relevant Naval Base departments as required.

To be the nominated BNSO Nuclear Engineering Safety Committee (NESC) representative and support the review of Nuclear Safety Related technical documentation.

To be the Naval Base SME for Organisational change and capability where this may influence the Nuclear Baseline.

To manage the NBC/DRDL interface by facilitating the nuclear interface arrangements, particularly in support of Nuclear Training.

To manage the Nuclear Baseline.

To be the Lead Sponsor for Authorisation Condition Compliance Statements (ACCS) 10, 12, 26 and 36.

To provide technical and nuclear safety case comments and Safety Management Arrangement information and support to the Babcock management safety committees as required and to be the Deputy MOD representative on the Babcock Management Safety Committee in support of Further Authorisation Condition 1.

To provide support to the Nuclear Emergency Arrangements as part of the Nuclear Emergency Response Organisation in a duty roster as agreed with the Line Manager.

PRE-JOINING ESSENTIAL TRAINING

7+ years of experience of working in the Nuclear or High Hazard Industries

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a breadth of experience in:

• Safety Management and Engineering.
• Operations.
• Organisational Management and Change.

POST JOINING ESSENTIAL TRAINING

• Nuclear Warship Support Course (NWSC) or equivalent.
• Mandatory Training: security, information management, unconscious bias, equality and diversity, DSE and DSAI.
• Local Emergencies Procedures Course
• Nuclear Emergencies Procedures Course
• Nuclear Safety Case Methodologies Course
• Lead Auditors Course
• Change Management Practitioner Course

The NWSC is currently delivered at HMS SULTAN in Gosport, Portsmouth therefore travel will be required to attend.

To be considered for this role you should possess:

Minimum UK Regulated Qualification Framework – Level 6 qualification, preferably in a related subject to the role or lesser qualifications with extensive relevant experience.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture

Making Effective Decisions

Leadership

Changing and Improving

Technical Skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Nuclear Competence 1.2: Nuclear Safety /Nuclear Security Management Systems.

Nuclear Competence 5.4: Nuclear Infrastructure Procurement, Supervision of Manufacturing and Acceptance.

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.

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

This vacancy will use a CV, Statement of Suitability, Technical Assessment and Success Profiles to assess your Behaviours, Technical Competence and Experience for the role.

Applicants are required to provide a personal statement which should include details of previous skills or experience relevant to the role (250 words).

A CV will be required for this position, this cannot be uploaded to the advert. You will submit using the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard, detailing job history, full qualifications, previous experience and skills.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to 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 been assessed as business critical. Applications are accepted from candidates who meet the eligibility criteria listed in the advert, including from those who will require sponsorship to enable them to work legally in the UK*.

*Please note the Civil Service Nationality Rules will also need to be met. The Civil service Nationality Rules operate independently and in addition to the UK Immigration Rules and must be met before am individual can take up employment in the Civil Service. The Civil Service Nationality Rules do not apply to IK, Irish and Commonwealth nationals, or to those who are eligible to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme but do apply to all other nationalities – including EU/EEA nationals who are ineligible to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme.

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

At Sift/Interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours

• ·Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Changing and Improving

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 security 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

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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.