What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will have:

• Proven experience in a business management role, ideally within an educational setting.
• Excellent organisational, leadership, financial and administrative skills.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with parents, staff, governors, and external stakeholders
• A proactive and flexible approach, with the ability to handle a demanding workload effectively
• The skills and ability to work with IT based management and financial information systems
• High expectations of self and professional standards
• Experience of handling sensitive information and maintaining confidentiality
• A commitment to the safeguarding of children

What the school offers its staff

In return we offer:

• A dedicated team of educators and support staff committed to providing the best educational experience.
• Support from an experienced Headteacher, Leadership Team and Governing Board
• A welcoming and happy place to work, where staff wellbeing is considered at all times
• A school that ensures safeguarding for all is a top priority

Further details about the role

The Headteacher and Governing Board are looking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and committed School Business Manager to oversee and manage our school’s administration, finance, HR, health and safety and premises. The role also involves line management of the office staff and site manager. The School Business Manager will work closely with the Headteacher, Governors, SLT and Local Authority to ensure the provision of efficient and effective services throughout the school.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

A well-established independent Opticians based in Cockermouth, Cumbria are looking to recruit a full or part time Dispensing Optician.

This advanced independent Opticians has gone from strength to strength. It has a long standing reputation in the area for its high levels of patient care and professionalism.

Dispensing Optician - Role

• Clinically focused independent
• Small group of 4 practices
• Beautiful part of the country
• High clinical standards
• Caring approach
• Loyal patient base of all ages
• Amazing patient reviews
• 45 minute testing times
• Enhanced clinics - Dry eye, myopia management, colourimetry
• Working alongside an experienced team
• High level of clinical freedom
• Excellent range of designer frames - Lindberg, Face a Face, Gucci
• High Quality Hoya lenses
• Working 3, 4 or 5 days a week including most Saturdays (1 in 4 off)
• Opening hours from 9am to 5.30pm (4pm on a Sat)
• Salary between £28,000 to £33,000 DOE
• Professional fees paid
• Birthday off work
• Free & Regular CPD courses
• Simply Health
• Retail Discounts
• CLO training and funding available
• Free parking close by

Dispensing Optician - Requirements

• Fully qualified Dispensing Optician registered with the GOC
• Open to all levels of experience
• Patient focused
• Caring
• Plenty of support If you are newly qualified
• Willing to learn and develop
• Excellent communications and organisational skills

To apply for this role please send a copy of your CV to Rebecca Wood using the apply now link.

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.


About the business unit 
The Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers management services in all the sectors that Mott MacDonald operate in the Built Environment, Defence, Energy, Water, Transportation and, Education, Health and Care.  This particular role will be sat in our Energy division offering an extensive range of programme support capabilities to our Nuclear Energy clients and offers applicants exposure to interesting and complex projects around the Cumbria area.

The Unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of Programme Management, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Management, Estimating, Infrastructure Finance, Management Consulting, Digital Consulting and Education, Health and Care Management. 


Overview of role

Any offers on this role are conditional to you already holding or gaining Security Clearance (SC).
We provide an extensive range of purpose-driven PMO and Controls services to a wide range of clients across infrastructure and the built environment, including multiple global programmes. Mott MacDonald are looking to hire project controls professionals in mid-level and senior bands.

What you will contribute to the team;

- Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (inc. earned value) and trends across multiple datasets
- Ability to focus on key issues, and drive out mitigating or recovery actions across the project
- Good people management and task facilitation skills
- Experience of implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries



Essential


- Due to the nature of this role, you must hold existing Secuirty Clearance (SC) or be eligable for SC.
- A background working on Nuclear Energy projects or on other large scale, highly regulated projects in industries such a Oil & Gas.
- Educated to degree level and/or hold a project controls or management qualification (e.g. APMG Planning and Controls, EVM, PMQ, Prince2)
- Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and clients
- Risk management and reporting including the use of ARM
- Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software;
- Create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements;
- Reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology;
- Project reporting including monitoring of KPIs;
- Undertake project reviews;
- Able to coordinate and work with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge;
- Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment;
- Strong stakeholder management experience



Desirable


- Support project managers in maintaining effective and timely change management processes
- Monitor and consolidate project plans
- PMO experience
- Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI


We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing


- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.


Financial wellbeing


- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.


Lifestyle


- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.


Enhanced family and carers leave


- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.


Learning and development


- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.


Networks, communities, and social outcomes

Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working
Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Job title: Business Development Manager
Job Type: Permanent
Start date: ASAP - Subject to clearance
Duration: Permanent
Salary/ Pay rate/ Benefits: Depending on experience
Location: Whitehaven
Hours of work: 37 hours per week

Applicants must have experience of the following:
- 10 years experience preferred
- Ability to gain SC clearance
- Able to deploy problem solving skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
- Broad understanding of the UK nuclear market
- Nuclear industry experience
- Proven success with new business development
- Project delivery experience

Role information:
- Lead the development of key account and business development strategies
- Liaise with programme and senior staff contacts with client and partner organisations
- Develop account plans, opportunity capture plans and value propositions
- Support in the development of order intake forecasts and budgets
- Present details of opportunities
- Provide market intel to bid teams to support tendering
- Monitor market developments
- Capture and present data in a structured manner to facilitate ease of sharing

Interested in this position? please click "apply now"
We try to respond to all applicants, but sometimes this is not possible due to high volumes of applications; if you have not heard from us within 14 days, regrettably it means you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
This permanent vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd
Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands, to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

Rullion is a forward-thinking recruitment company that specialises in providing a wide range of talent consultancy services to a diverse client base; from small start-ups to large household names.
We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Job title: Commissioning Engineer Mechanical (Project Engineer)
Job Type: Permanent
Start date: ASAP - Subject to clearance
Duration: Permanent
Salary/ Pay rate/ Benefits: Up to £60,000
Location: Seascale
Hours of work: 37 Hours per week
Applicants must have experience of the following:
- Level 3 qualification or recognised apprenticeship in relevant field
- IT literate
Ideally applicants should also have:

- Commissioning engineer experience
- HNC or level 4 qualification in relevant field


Role information:

- Produce test documentation
- Produce plant test schedules
- Review designs developing the detail of temporary systems to enable commissioning
- Ensure tests are carried out throughout all phases of commissioning
- Find faults and provide solutions
- Record data in relation to test documentation
- Implement FOB's
- Mentor junior team members

Interested in this position? please click "apply now"
We try to respond to all applicants, but sometimes this is not possible due to high volumes of applications; if you have not heard from us within 14 days, regrettably it means you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
This permanent vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd
Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands, to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

Rullion is a forward-thinking recruitment company that specialises in providing a wide range of talent consultancy services to a diverse client base; from small start-ups to large household names.
We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Safety Net is a charity supporting the recovery of those affected by rape, exploitation, sexual and domestic abuse across Cumbria. We offer advice, support, counselling, therapy and group work to adults, children and young people, who have been affected by abuse and trauma. This role is pivotal to ensuring the seamless operation of our service, with a significant focus on managing daily office and building administration tasks and supporting service delivery.

We're seeking an efficient and organised individual with strong IT proficiency, and a good working knowledge of databases and MS Excel.

Daily duties:
Office Management: Provide high-quality administrative support.
Share responsibility for the, buildings, building maintenance, health and safety , purchasing, Petty cash, utilities and cleanliness standards are monitored and managed efficiently.
Manage room bookings and office calendars, ensuring efficient processes for each.
Support coordination of induction process and training for new trustees, staff and volunteers.
Take the lead of health and safety for staff, volunteers and trustees, meet mandatory learning and development requirements.
Offer assistance to the leadership team as needed with staff case management and support the Tier 4 service Volunteer Coordinator, groups and befriending projects.
Communication: warmly welcome and show compassion to all staff, clients, trustees and agencies. Answer queries, uphold Safety Net’s branding standards
Maintain essential documentation, ensure accuracy and consistency in referrals from other agencies, based on our eligibility criteria.
Manage the case management system, regularly audit the system.
Data monitoring and contract management support in gathering and producing statistics, records and reports required by funders.

Summary

Job Description for Business Support Team Member:

There's never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At NNL, you'll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career.

We're an organisation that's here to experiment and push the limits of what's possible. So, if you're keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at NNL, anything is possible.

NNL's Business Services Support Team Member will deliver accurate and comprehensive back-office support across three locations, ensuring the highest level of administration efficiency. The team member will provide a wide variety of duties and support to internal and external teams.

Flexibility is required to cover Workington, Windscale and Central Laboratories

Main Responsibilities for Business Support Team Member:

• General Administrative duties to include but not limited to:
  
  
  
  • Developing spreadsheets, typing documents, organising meetings, minute taking and distribution of the minutes, updating notice boards and providing administrative support across Compliance and Facilities team.
  
  
  • Reception duties including Tannoy announcements and issuing passes.
  
  
  • Responsible for arranging visits for external parties to NNL facilities including processing necessary paperwork to allow access.
  
  
  • Responsible for the arrangement of travel bookings: air, rail, taxi and car hire requests, hotel bookings, conference facility bookings.
  
  
  • Responsible for arranging and processing of applications for inductions, including issue and control of visitor passes for access into relevant buildings and assisting in delivering induction.
  
  
  • Responsible for ordering goods, stationary etc including buffets via credit card or raising Purchase Requisitions account reconciliation.
  
  
  • Responsible for carrying out safety observations and audits.
  
  
  • Act as IT coordinator - Point of contact for IT deliveries to the building and providing support to management of documentation on Qpulse, delivering guidance and act on issues regarding operational documentation.
  
  
  • Undertake other activities commensurate with their skills and experience as and when required.
  
  
  
  

Essential Criteria for Business Support Team Member:

• Proven experience of administration, organisational skills and time management skills.


• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the business, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.


• Detail orientated and the ability to work to stringent deadlines.


• Proactive and self-starter that can work well on own and flexibly as part of a team.


• Proficient in all MS office packages.


• GCSE Maths, English & Science (As minimum Grade 4 or equivalent).


• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years' worth of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Business Support Team Member:

• Work within a highly regulated environment.

Why join us?

NNL isn't just a place where you can do career-defining work that makes a real-world impact. It's also a place where you'll feel appreciated and valued. We're creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We put your wellbeing first, we push you to reach your potential, and we do everything possible to help you feel safe, supported and inspired.

We also offer a range of employee benefits:

• Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage.


• NNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, NNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), NNL will still contribute 10%.


• Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.


• Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK


• Company Bonus: Be rewarded for your contributions.


• Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.


• Employee Assistance: Access support for personal and professional challenges.


• Cycle to Work: Stay active and eco-friendly.


• Life Assurance: Ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones.


• Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits: Receive support during illness or injury.


• Access to 'Mydiscounts' which has a range of special offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance.


• Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).

About The Company

NNL is an incredible place to work. A place where people do things that have never been done before. A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

Recruitment Agency Notice

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned.

Associate Dentist Jobs in Whitehaven, Cumbria. Associate Dentist, Whitehaven, Cumbria. £16 per UDA, Full or part time. Zest Dental Recruitment working in partnership with an established dental practice is seeking to recruit an Associate Dentist in Workington, Cumbria.

• Full or Part-time Associate Dentist
• Whitehaven, Cumbria
• £16 per UDA
• £20,000 performance bonus
• Excellent potential for further private revenue (50%, 50% labs)
• Superb equipment including R4 software, digital x-ray and an Apex Locator
• Replacing departing colleague
• Well established dental practice
• Permanent position
• Reference: 334506

This is an established, modern, 4 surgery practice offering a range of NHS and private treatments, including cosmetic treatments and orthodontics. The practice offers support from a team of longstanding, experienced associates and professional support staff, as well as state of the art equpment including R4 software, digital x-ray and an Apex Locator.

Successful candidates will be GDC registered dentists, have an active dentist performer number and have experience of providing NHS dental treatment in the UK.

For further information regarding this dentist position, confidential enquiries can be made by submitting your CV to Zest Dental. All applications and enquiries will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

Job Title: Site Manager / Project manager

Sector: Industrial Services - Scaffolding / Nuclear

Type: Permanent

Location: Seascale, Cumbria

Salary: £70,000 + Benefits & Health Care + Accommodation Paid

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Site Manager looking to move into Project Management with a background in industrial services and scaffolding, to manage small packages of work. Based at Sellafield your key activities will be site supervision ensuring scaffolding projects are carried out to the highest level of health and safety in a Nuclear environment. This role involves overseeing the planning, execution, and completion of scaffolding projects, ensuring they meet client specifications, safety standards, and are delivered on time and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Enforce strict adherence to health and safety policies and procedures, conducting regular site inspections and risk assessments.

• Plan, manage, and oversee scaffolding projects from inception to completion on nuclear sites. This includes budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, and ensuring project milestones are met.

• Supervise on-site activities, ensuring all work complies with health and safety regulations, particularly those specific to nuclear environments.

• Act as the main point of contact for clients, providing regular updates on project progress, addressing any concerns, and ensuring client satisfaction.

• Implement and maintain quality control procedures to ensure all work meets the required standards and specifications.

• Maintain accurate project documentation, including progress reports, risk assessments, and safety records.

• Ensure all work is carried out in compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and company policies.

Qualifications & Skills

• Proven experience in site/project management within the industrial services sector, with a focus on scaffolding in nuclear environments.
• Professional certifications such as SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme) and CSCS Black Card.
• Comprehensive understanding of scaffolding techniques, nuclear safety protocols, and relevant UK regulations.
• Due to the secure nature of the location, it is essential that you are eligible to hold a UK security clearance.

Benefits:

• You will be part of an organisation that has grown organically over the last 5 years and continues to do so.
• The organisation is truly global which will lead to future opportunities.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression
• A supportive and dynamic work environment which puts the health and safety of its people front and centre.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Job title: Strategy Support
Job Type: Contract
Start date: ASAP - Subject to clearance
Duration: 6 months rolling contract
Salary/ Pay rate/ Benefits: Depending on experience
Location: Seascale - Hybrid available
Hours of work: 40 hours per week
Applicants must have experience of the following:
- Strategic thinking skills
- Administrative experience
- Nuclear experience
- P4 pass
- Able to gain SC clearance
Ideally applicants should also have:
- Knowledge of legacy ponds

Role information:

- Provide strategy and technical support to storage ponds works
- Provide strategy and technical delivery against key programme risks
- Provide input to relevant documentation
- Liaise with other teams when required

Interested in this position? please click "apply now"
We try to respond to all applicants, but sometimes this is not possible due to high volumes of applications; if you have not heard from us within 14 days, regrettably it means you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
This contract vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd
Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands, to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

Rullion is a forward-thinking recruitment company that specialises in providing a wide range of talent consultancy services to a diverse client base; from small start-ups to large household names.
We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Job title: Project Manager
Job Type: Permanent
Start date: ASAP - Subject to clearance
Salary/ Pay rate/ Benefits: £60,000-£75,000
Location: Seascale/Whitehaven
Hours of work: 38 hours Mon-Friday

Applicants must have experience of the following:
- HNC/HND in relevant discipline
- Significant experience in a nuclear engineering environment
- Full project lifecycle experience as a project manager
- Great stakeholder management skills
- Site management experience

Ideally applicants should also have:
- Engineering degree
- Chartership or equivalent

Role information:
- Manage all aspects of multi-discipline projects from inception through to completion
- Prepare the project execution plans for all project activities in line with preset requirements
- Develop the organisational structure for a multi-disciplined team and delegate the necessary resources required for them to complete their works
- Prepare and update the project schedule
- Review design, procurement, manufacturing, shipping and sub-contract operations to ensure project specifications are being adhered to
- Monitor project progress

Interested in this position? please click "apply now"
We try to respond to all applicants, but sometimes this is not possible due to high volumes of applications; if you have not heard from us within 14 days, regrettably it means you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
This permanent vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd
Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands, to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

Rullion is a forward-thinking recruitment company that specialises in providing a wide range of talent consultancy services to a diverse client base; from small start-ups to large household names.
We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.


About the business unit 
The Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers management services in all the sectors that Mott MacDonald operate in the Built Environment, Defence, Energy, Water, Transportation and, Education, Health and Care.  This particular role will be sat in our Energy division offering an extensive range of programme support capabilities to our Nuclear Energy clients and offers applicants exposure to interesting and complex projects around the Cumbria area.

The Unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of Programme Management, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Management, Estimating, Infrastructure Finance, Management Consulting, Digital Consulting and Education, Health and Care Management. 


Overview of role

Any offers on this role are conditional to you already holding or gaining Security Clearance (SC).
We provide an extensive range of purpose-driven PMO and Controls services to a wide range of clients across infrastructure and the built environment, including multiple global programmes. Mott MacDonald are looking to hire project controls professionals in mid-level and senior bands.

What you will contribute to the team;

- Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (inc. earned value) and trends across multiple datasets
- Ability to focus on key issues, and drive out mitigating or recovery actions across the project
- Good people management and task facilitation skills
- Experience of implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries



Essential


- Due to the nature of this role, you must hold existing Secuirty Clearance (SC) or be eligable for SC.
- A background working on Nuclear Energy projects or on other large scale, highly regulated projects in industries such a Oil & Gas.
- Educated to degree level and/or hold a project controls or management qualification (e.g. APMG Planning and Controls, EVM, PMQ, Prince2)
- Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and clients
- Risk management and reporting including the use of ARM
- Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software;
- Create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements;
- Reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology;
- Project reporting including monitoring of KPIs;
- Undertake project reviews;
- Able to coordinate and work with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge;
- Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment;
- Strong stakeholder management experience



Desirable


- Support project managers in maintaining effective and timely change management processes
- Monitor and consolidate project plans
- PMO experience
- Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI


We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing


- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.


Financial wellbeing


- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.


Lifestyle


- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.


Enhanced family and carers leave


- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.


Learning and development


- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.


Networks, communities, and social outcomes

Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility
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Business Development Manager
Cumbria

Up to £60,000

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Engineering Director to join a great company priding itself on quality.

With no day ever being the same as a Engineering Director the role offers career development within a first-class high tech environment.

Benefits:- Opportunity to work flexibly, 24 days holiday + bank holidays, On site parking

Role & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing new business, new products and new geographies. Development of new customers, new accounts and sales agents/ channel partners
• Assists in the Technical Selling to utilities, industry, renewable energy and railway application or any other end user approval, qualification or prescription for non-core products.
• Assists in promoting the Engineering Service Offering to OEM, EPC and End users such as Utilities, Industries, renewable power plant and railway application in protection, control and switchgear engineering.
• Meets assigned Marketing KPI Dashboard and continuous improvement for non-core business.
• Establishes and maintains productive peer-to-peer relationships with senior managers ECM, customers, channel partners, agents and prospects.
• Works through Sales Team, Operations team, Contracts team, projects team and engineering teams team and finance to ensure timely order execution, customer co-ordination and contract closure for Non-core orders.
• Creating an effective communication model and growth program review mechanism at operating levels with UK and India Team and drive synergy business.
• Improving customer response and success rate in conversion of lead into equity and enquiry into order.
• Improve lead generation by pro-active sales, Marketing and Business Development Activities.
• Development of expanded market region in domestic and international market
• Develop New customer relations and promote joint interests

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• BE / B Tech in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 15 years of experience
• Experience in Protection and Switchgear Industry
• Proven capability for developing new business in UK Transmission & Distribution market

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

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Summary

Job Description for Business Improvement Practitioner:

There's never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At NNL, you'll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career.

We're an organisation that's here to experiment and push the limits of what's possible. So, if you're keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at NNL, anything is possible.

Reporting to the Pre-Operations and Business Improvement Manager, NNL is seeking to hire a Business Improvement Practitioner. The role of the Business Improvement Practitioner will involve collaborating with all departments within the facility to identify process improvements that will enhance efficiency, customer delivery, cost-effectiveness and safety with quantifiable results.

Situated at the Windscale facility, this position will offer direct assistance to facility operations in enhancing overall operational effectiveness through incremental improvement initiatives. While primarily based on-site, there may be occasions where remote work or attendance at events in offsite locations is necessary.

Main Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities for Business Improvement Practitioner:

• Select, introduce, and standardise Improvement tools and techniques across the business, for example standard work, Value Stream Mapping, Waste identification, SIPOC, 5S, Root Cause Analysis and charters, as appropriate for the facility.
• Lead and facilitate continuous improvement opportunities, training and workshops driving cultural change guided by business data and implementing industry best practices.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to teams on how and when to use the standard tool sets and assist in activities to grow the culture.
• Adopt a strengths-based approach, focusing not only on waste and problems but on areas of best practice, seeking to share and replicate throughout the facility.
• Support in investigations of operational abnormalities to help identify and correct the root cause of the event:
• Lead on undertaking Limited learning and Apparent Cause analysis.
• Promote overall nuclear safety (along with all other areas of safety - conventional, industrial, radiological, environmental) by maintaining a safe operating envelope. Oversee the relevant processes employed within the plant checking that all work activities meet site standards, policies, processes and procedures.
• Contribute to the creation and sustainability of a continuous improvement culture.

Ideal Candidate

Essential Criteria for Business Improvement Practitioner:

• Recognized qualification OR proven demonstrated experience in Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma (min green belt).
• Experience in the application of lean techniques ( 5s, value stream mapping, visual management).
• Proficiency of Microsoft applications.
• Experience in developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders and supports delivery of their projects.
• Operational experience in a regulated environment, managing technical and facility programmes to a high EHSS&Q standard.
• Skills and behaviours:
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to engage stakeholders and build strong collaborative relationships.
  • Demonstrable ability in change management.
  • Acts as a role model to NNL's values and behaviours.
  • Proven ability to lead and inspire others to achieve goals.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years' worth of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Business Improvement Practitioner:

• Nuclear experience is not essential but would be advantageous.

Why join us?

NNL isn't just a place where you can do career-defining work that makes a real-world impact. It's also a place where you'll feel appreciated and valued. We're creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We put your wellbeing first, we push you to reach your potential, and we do everything possible to help you feel safe, supported and inspired.

We also offer a range of employee benefits:

• Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage.
• NNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, NNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), NNL will still contribute 10%.
• Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.
• Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK
• Company Bonus: Be rewarded for your contributions.
• Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.
• Employee Assistance: Access support for personal and professional challenges.
• Cycle to Work: Stay active and eco-friendly.
• Life Assurance: Ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
• Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits: Receive support during illness or injury.
• Access to 'Mydiscounts' which has a range of special offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance.
• Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).

About The Company

NNL is where your solutions solve real-world problems. As part of our Engineering team, you'll not only be able to get involved with a huge variety of projects, you'll also have lots of opportunity to drive them through from start to finish - allowing you to see the impact your work has in a real-world environment. This is your chance to use your experience, expertise and ingenuity to collaborate with leading scientists. You'll be part of a team that delivers work to benefit society by advancing cleaner energy, protecting the environment and keeping everyone safe.

NNL is an incredible place to work. A place where people do things that have never been done before. A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

Recruitment Agency Notice

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned.

Role Title: Project Manager (SC Cleared)
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Barrow-in-Furness / Hybrid (1-2 days on site)
Rate: £500/d - Umbrella only

NOTE: Only sole UK Nationals with Active SC Clearance will be considered for this role

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Key Skills/ requirements

• Providing deliverables or service to specification, within agreed cost and timescale, meeting the necessary quality standards and to customer satisfaction.
• Conduct client negotiations to agree terms for changes to the scope of the project or service, setting realistic expectations and ensuring commercial viability.
• Manage the project or service teams, plan activities and monitor progress.
  Ensure all project deliverables or services are provided using best practices and are of an appropriate quality.
• Provide factual analysis of the project or service portfolio and the team's performance and compliance to standard tools and processes
• Manage budgets and forecasts, drives revenue growth, improves margins on the portfolio
• Escalation point beyond engagement manager/Transition Manager/SSDM, direct escalation contact facing the client and Geography leads
• Manage client relationships and convert client experiences to references

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications, we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!