The Operations Team Lead is responsible leading the Nuclear Spares Operations Team. The Operations Team Lead will drive delivery performance working with other departments to ensure operational efficiency. Review of service delivery and implementing an order winning set of practices and team ethos. Responsible for the management of service delivery (cost, schedule, and quality), staff and facilities at Bristol. Supporting the Operations manager in the development of future Operating and Business Delivery Models.

Responsible for:
- Management and development of operational activities of the Nuclear Spares Operations Team.
- Foster a positive work environment introducing new ways of working, developing a team ethos and driving change and performance improvement.
- Use lean principles to analyze and plan work force utilization, space requirements, and workflow for maximum efficiency and flow.
- Support/train/mentor/coach team members and ensure all applicable standards are met.?
- Development and implementation of a set of procedures to deliver consistency, performance and customer assurance across Nuclear Spares service delivery.
- Developing and implementing Visual Management techniques and other key techniques to improve service improvement awareness.
- Ensuring suitable absence and holiday cover is in place for the operations team.
- Ensuring on time, reliable and consistent customer and internal reporting.
- Providing input to the Spares Operations Manager to assist in the generation of financial forecasts
- Interfacing with support functions to co-ordinate business transactions, such as calculation of Work in progress, revenue and margin recognition, invoicing requests and reconcilliations.
- Facility Management of the site including responsibility for meeting HSE requirements.

Skills & Knowledge
Essential
Experience of leading engineering supply chain operations successfully whilst delivering performance enhancing change.
Engineering background and understanding of delivery within a “safety critical” component environment.
Management Skills and ability to develop and recover industrial relations within a team.
Ability to promote good working relationships and act promptly to deal with poor performance and innapproriate behaviour.
Ability to adapt to changing priorities and change.
Ability to communicate and promote change.
Full Driving Licence and ability to travel between Bristol and Leicester

Desirable
Operations back ground in a production / product delivery environment (ideally with Lean, visual management)
Proven record of driving change, improving productivity, efficiency and service performance levels
Qualifications
Formal Engineering Qualification demonstrating engineering knowledge
Understanding of Environmental, Health and Safety requirements within an industrial workplace.
Security
The successful applicants will need to satisfy nuclear security requirements.

NRL Opportunity- Completions Engineer, Grangemouth
Our client currently has a requirement for a Completions Engineer to be based in Grangemouth on a Contract basis, to provide completions expertise to the Engineering Team and assist in the development of completions systems and procedures. Apply Engineering Completions procedures to deliver construction of projects and turnarounds to meet the demand from the clients businesses.
Accountabilities
• Assist with the development of Engineering Team Completions systems and procedures to satisfy legislative requirements and meet business goals.
• Provide expertise and advice on Completions matters to the Engineering Team to comply with legislative requirements and client standards and policies.
• Define the completions strategies for individual projects and turnarounds, ensure they are adequate for the work scope and will enable a controlled handover to the Asset.
• Apply the Completions procedures to ensure controlled and handover of projects and turnarounds to the Asset in line with the project schedule.
• Manage the Completions activities during the close-out phase of projects and turnarounds to ensure close out of the job within agreed timescales.
• Monitor the completions performance of the Engineering Team, take action as required to address issues and make recommendations to the Manager of Construction to improve performance.
• Provide assistance and support to the Engineering Commissioning Support function as required to deliver projects in line with business goals for cost, schedule, SHE and quality.
Requirements of the job:
• Construction activities include modifications to existing plant, new builds and major maintenance events.
• The construction programme comprises multiple concurrent projects and turnarounds across all businesses on the site and associated remote locations.
• Construction on the site was previously managed and delivered by a third party. As part of business objective to double EBITDA by 2010, construction will be transferred to the clients control. The Completions Engineer will assist with development of a new construction completions team and associated processes.
• The Completions Engineer interfaces with Construction Engineers, Commissioning Support Engineers, Contractor Engineers, Project Managers, Turnaround Managers and the Asset Teams.
• The Completions Engineer must build strong working relationships with people at all levels in the organization and 3rd party contractors.
Qualifications & Experience:
• HNC qualified or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Extensive experience of project construction and Turnaround events in petrochemicals and refining.

Opportunities exist within the engineering delivery unit for Mechanical Engineers / Technical Architecture Leads who will specify, design, and develop mechanical plant and equipment for Defence projects.
Candidates should have a strong focus on delivery to quality, cost and time within a process driven environment, be self starters and able to work as individuals or as part of a team.
Role Responsibilities:
• You will capture task requirements and translate into design intent.
• You will be responsible for the detailed design and specification of mechanical components and equipment including welded/fabricated structures. You will underpin these designs by conducting stress analyses, thermal analysis, fatigue and fracture analyses, and also by documenting FMECA workshops with involvement from other engineers.
• You will produce design substantiation reports to demonstrate that safety functional requirements are met. You will define manufacturing quality requirements, inspection requirements, installation requirements and testing requirements.

Essential Skills and Experience:
• Educated to degree level or equivalent in mechanical engineering or a related discipline.
• Previous experience of design substantiation and knowledge of the design codes and standards applicable to the nuclear industry.
• Knowledge of structural design, welding and manufacture in a nuclear environment, though experience gained within other highly regulated industries will also be considered.
• Ability to negotiate, influence, and communicate effectively with internal and external customers at all levels and be able to deal effectively with ambiguity and multiple problems whilst working to tight timescales.
• You will be proficient in the use of MS Office. • Experience with engineering design software tools (preferably NX, ANSYS, MathCAD, Pro Engineer or other similar packages). Desirable Skills and Experience:
• Membership of an engineering professional institute would be preferable but is not an essential requirement.

NRL are currently looking for Instrument Pipefitters with Swagelok or MJI12 to work offshore ASAP.

If interested, please send me your CV & Certificates ASAP for consideration.

Supervisor required to oversee Health and Safety