Job title: Commissioning permit engineer – BEP, Sellafield
Company: Balfour Beatty
Job description: About the role
Balfour Beatty Major Projects team have a fantastic opportunity for a Commissioning Permit Engineer to work at the Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP), Sellafield, Seascale.
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 Sellafields 100-year clean-up programme by taking nuclear waste recovered from the sites 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 Ltds
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 ofwastes from the various donor plants, carried out in line with the Employers needs
and to the satisfaction of stakeholders in the Box Encapsulation Project (BEP).
What you’ll be doing
As Commissioning Permit Engineer , you will have the following accountabilities:
- Prepare, issue and close safe systems of work
- Ensure all permit office activities are carried out in accordance with all site licence, Environmental, regulatory and industry requirements, including HSG250 and HSG253
- Advise and support the Permit Office Manager in confirming plant and equipment can be safely energised to carry out meaningful testing
- Ensure all Permit Office test equipment is calibrated and certified
- Carry out all energisation and isolation activities in a safe, and timely manner through all stages of commissioning
Who we’re looking for
You will have the following:
- Appropriate technical qualification (C&;G, ONC, HNC) in an engineering
discipline * Previous experience as a Permit Engineer in the commissioning of
nuclear or similar plants. * The ability to obtain BC is essential
Interested?
Then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: –
- An attractive / negotiated salary
- 42 hours per week
- 25 days annual leave
- Holiday buy in scheme (buy up to extra 5 days)
- Health cover
- Pension savings schemes
- Subsistence allowance (if applicable)
- A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, special offers etc)
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
Balfour Beatty Major Projects have delivered some of the UKs most complex and iconic infrastructure projects, including Blackfriars Station, the Olympic Aquatics Centre and the Olympic Stadium transformation. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully, from consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. Through our expert capability, we work closely with clients to use the latest technology, machinery and innovative solutions to meet their engineering and construction needs.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:
Expected salary:
Location: Seascale, Cumbria
Job date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 04:59:02 GMT
