RACE Work Control and Safe Working Manager

This role is based at Culham Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)  including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy as the Work Control and Safe Working Manager. RACE is a dynamic environment combining routine engineering with innovative robotic experimentation. In this role youll ensure all work is planned and conducted in line with the highest health safety and regulatory standards. You will collaborate with projects conducting novel research and development advising on safety best practices and managing the RACE work control system to ensure proper planning review and approval. Strong collaboration with project teams management and technical delivery teams is key to success in this role.

In this role you will support projects throughout the work control process by ensuring early engagement managing expectations and providing timely responses. Youll work with project teams to ensure safety and regulatory compliance requirements are understood and planned for upcoming work. Additionally youll attend work control meetings offering input on safety management and oversee the approval and acceptance of external RAMS in line with internal systems. You will manage both live and historic Work Control Plans (WCPs) ensuring documentation is uptodate and properly tracked and act as the approver for work within the core RACE building. Collaboration with the Facility Group Manager to gather feedback and implement lessons learned for continuous improvement will also be key as well as supporting system improvements changes and providing training on risk assessments and work control processes as needed.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Safety Walks: Lead and assist with formal safety walks ensuring actions are managed across all RRDD areas and conduct informal area walks to maintain continuous compliance. Manage reporting of OEI and safety data through central UKAEA.
• UNORS: Organize and lead investigations when a UNOR is raised raise UNORs on behalf of RACE when necessary and manage the tracking reporting and resolution of UNOR actions.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure RACEs compliance with relevant regulatory standards (e.g. PUWER LOLER COSHH MHSaWR) audit systems and lead improvements to address compliance gaps.
• Wider RRDD Integration: Collaborate with groups within the wider RRDD to roll out core processes ensure compliance with agreed procedures and support safety and work control in other areas as needed.
• Safety Actions System Ownership: Own and manage the formal RACE safety actions system ensuring its maintenance continuous improvement and effective operation to support safety management across RACE.

Qualifications :

Essential Requirements:

• Degree level qualification in relevant Engineering or Science discipline
• NEBOSH National General certificate in safety or higher level qualification
• Demonstratable experience in managing health and safety in the workplace as well as a formal work control process
• Demonstratable experience managing technical teams

Please note that you may be asked to act as a delegate or deputy for the Facility Group Leader when needed. You may also be required to travel to other UKAEA locations across the UK or to collaborator sites internationally.

Additional Information :

A full list of our benefits can be found here

We welcome applications from underrepresented groups particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds people with disabilities and women. Our Executive team supported by our Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime