Head of Nuclear Skills Alliance

2 months ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom EDF Limited Full time

The Head of the Nuclear Skills Alliance (NSA) has responsibility for providing support, across multiple licensees, for Organisational Capability, Construction Skills, Early Careers pipelines, and the development of nuclear technical skills and competences within EDF’s workforce. These responsibilities are executed by the Head of NSA setting the strategy and leading implementation of a multi-year portfolio of projects, programmes, and business-as-usual activities spanning Generation, TSO, HPC, SZC and their support organisations.

**The Opportunity**

The NSA is a structured collaboration between Generation and HPC, focussed on delivering technical skills and competences. More recently SZC has become part of that collaboration.

The NSA is focused on planning for technical skills and capability for construction, commissioning, operations, and defueling; ensuring the right skills are identified for all phases of the nuclear lifecycle. It brings together technical training and organisational capability, with a focus on delivering competence to support existing and new nuclear business.

Nuclear Generation and HPC jointly provide the resource, funding and infrastructure required to establish and run the NSA proportionate to the service they receive. Other organisations secure services by way of agreed Task Order.

The Head of the NSA reporting line is Nuclear Generation, whilst a joint governance structure will be established to maintain oversight of the delivery, resourcing, and funding of the alliance.

**Pay, benefits and culture**

We offer a competitive salary, bonus and pension scheme with terms and conditions covered by the EDF Nuclear Generation Personal Contract. The starting salary will be dependent on your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications.

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

**What you’ll be doing**

In this role, your primary accountabilities will include:

- Responsible for ensuring effective License Condition 36 (Organisational Capability) governance and oversight for Nuclear Generation, with appropriate and proportionate interaction with the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).
- Responsible for overseeing the delivery of the Early Careers pipelines across the nuclear business, including industrial placements, graduates and apprentices.
- Provide strategic oversight of workforce plans, addressing future risks and skills pinch points.
- Oversee and support National College for Nuclear( NCfN) strategy and assure alignment with EDF corporate strategy; leads HPC legacy and skills replication activity of Centres of Excellence and associated skills for SZC from NCfN, enabling it to support EDF in Net Zero and socio-economic ambitions.
- Responsible for the strategic direction, development and assurance of technical training across EDF’s nuclear businesses including accreditation of key nuclear safety related training programmes, in line with the licensee requirements. Travel to EDF sites and other locations will be a requirement.
- Establish and maintain arrangements for the effective oversight and support for training management systems.
- Development and training of operational staff to support the changing requirements of the existing nuclear fleet through the lifecycle of the plants, including delivery of a workforce for construction, decommissioning and deconstruction.
- Oversee and support the provision of data analysis to support business decisions and co-ordination for integrated socio-economic planning.
- Provides support to the Nuclear Sector Deal (NSD) to align NSD activity with industry demand and helps in developing target operational models for workforce delivery mechanisms.
- Manage a team of approximately 80 employees plus contractors across multiple locations.
- Operates within a complex stakeholder landscape and will be required to establish and maintain strong links with external interfaces.

**Who you are**

As the Head of Nuclear Skills Alliance, you will have experience of working with a heavily regulated sector, developed and successfully implemented a vision and strategy. You are an experienced leader of a large function and comfortable with establishing relationships with internal and external stakeholders and regulators. You will also have knowledge and understanding of the License Condition 36 and how it underpins our skills capability strategy.

You’ll be a strategic thinker capable of identifying synergy opportunities and driving implementation to completion. As an authentic leader, you’ll have a deep understanding of the nuclear skills for our three licensees and passionate about delivering high quality programmes as a centre of excellence.

A strong technical background in an engineering or scientific field would be ideal, or you may have a knowledge of international best practice and standards in operations, engineering technical or maintenance training. Nuclear Operations kno

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