Join Our Team
Starting Salary: £39,592 with the opportunity to develop and earn in the role: £41,562 + an annual bonus.
Working Pattern: Days (37.5 hours per week, typical hours are 07:30 – 15:40 or 08:10 – 16:20).
Location: Sellafield, West Cumbria (you may be required to visit other locations).
What will the Successful Candidate be Doing:
Do you have experience of being responsible for the transport of goods in a highly regulated environment? We’re looking for people with a passion and interest in maths and science to join our team as a Consignment Officer.
As a Consignment Officer, you will be an essential part of our team responsible for overseeing the safe, compliant, secure transport of all nine classes of dangerous goods for Sellafield Ltd. You will maintain the company’s reputation as a safe, compliant, reliable, predictable, and efficient transporter of dangerous goods – while delivering advice and guidance to others. In relation to this, they will also carry out audits and inspections on the Sellafield Site and at other locations.
The Consignment Officer will also carry out witnessing and monitoring of all the duties of the transport participants, relating to the activities they are responsible for. They will also oversee the dispatch of consignments, these tasks require individuals to be mobile across various buildings/locations. They will classify materials in accordance with the appropriate legislation along with carrying out packaging calculations.
We are looking for a motivated team player who is dedicated to supporting a positive safety culture and thrives for continuous improvement. If you think you have the skills and experience for this role, we want to hear from you.
Why choose Sellafield?
At Sellafield, we’re true pioneers. We led the world in nuclear power production, now we’re the world’s first movers into environmental remediation. Building on our rich history, we’re striding into an era where we’ll transform the environment, local society, the regional economy and the global nuclear industry. Covering six square kilometres, the site in West Cumbria is home to more than 200 nuclear facilities. A team of 11,000 people here work alongside our supply chain partners, to tackle a diverse portfolio of decommissioning, reprocessing, spent fuel management, nuclear waste management and nuclear material management.
What’s in it for you?
At Sellafield Ltd, we are an organisation that is committed to supporting employees fulfil their potential. With comprehensive training and development opportunities, we will enable you to feel inspired in your role.
We also offer a range of employee benefits:
- Be a part of Sellafield’s 100 year mission.
- An attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
- You will benefit from an annual bonus, made up of company and personal performance.
- 25.5 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays. There is also the ability to purchase 3 additional days.
- The ability to carry over 5 days annual leave each financial year.
- Paid Sick Leave.
- Family Friendly Policies – Visit our Rewards & Benefits page to read more.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Lifestyle Benefits sasra.co.uk
- Learning & Development Opportunities https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/learning-and-development/
- Reward & Recognition Policies.
- Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme.
- Free Aviva Health App & Annual Health Check.
- MyDiscounts – Employee Savings & Discounts.
- MyBenefits – A Charity Giving Scheme.
- Many, many more!
Click this link to visit our Rewards & Benefits page:
https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/rewards-and-benefits/
The Ideal Candidate:
Essential Skills:
- 3 GCSEs (Grade C or above including Maths and English (or equivalent qualifications)
- Experience of working in a highly regulated environment.
- Planning and organisational skills to set clearly defined objectives.
- Experience planning activities in a timely manner and independently monitoring performance against deadlines and milestones.
- Proven experience of applying analytical and numeracy skills to review information, understand complex problems and to draw appropriate conclusions.
- Proven communication skills, including the ability to prepare detailed technical reports.
- Interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and customers.
- Confident use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word.)
- The ability to achieve the appropriate security clearance.
Desirable Skills:
- A degree in a STEM subject.
- Knowledge of regulations pertaining to the transport of dangerous goods (CDG, ADR, RID)
- Qualifications in the movement of all classes of Dangerous Goods, in particular Class 7 Radioactive Material training; Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 by Road, Rail Sea and Air (or ability to achieve)
- Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor qualification by Road and Rail (or ability to achieve)
What we’re proud of:
Sellafield has a proud vision of Diversity & Inclusion that aims to attract candidates into an inclusive and supportive workplace. We are honoured to be recognised as a Level 3 Disability Confident Employer.
Please remember:
- You are required to upload evidence of your qualifications on your application.
- In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, Sellafield Ltd reserves the right to close the advert early.
- Please regularly check your Spam/Junk folders for news about this vacancy, correspondence could contain invitations to interview and other important updates.
- *Sellafield Ltd have the right to remove the company bonus scheme at any time.