Engineering Capability: Competency Acquisition Lead

Overview

Lead competency acquisition for engineering in a nuclear power project

Key Responsibilities

• tool enablement
• technical training
• competency tracking
• framework development
• strategy execution
• stakeholder reporting

Tasks

-Tools & Systems Enablement: Contribute to the selection, implementation, and optimisation of tools and systems that support competency tracking, assessment, and reporting. Ensure visibility of competency levels across the engineering function. -Best Practice Adoption: Promote the use of best practice learning and skills tools within the engineering function, with a focus on leveraging existing capabilities such as EPRI and INPO resources. -Technical Training Oversight: Review and evaluate technical training requests to ensure alignment with engineering competency requirements and strategic priorities. Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritise training investments and maximise value for capability development. -Reporting & Communication: Provide clear, timely updates to senior stakeholders on progress, risks, and outcomes. Develop materials that communicate the strategy's purpose, progress, and impact across the business. -Stakeholder Collaboration: Build and maintain strong relationships with HR, Development & Capability, and other enabling functions to ensure engineering needs are understood and embedded in relevant processes. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to support workforce planning, training, and succession initiatives. -Competency Framework Development: Support the design, development, and integration of competency frameworks across engineering disciplines and professional levels, ensuring alignment with organisational governance, quality assurance, and regulatory expectations. -Strategy Delivery: Lead the execution of key activities outlined in the Engineering Competency Strategy, coordinating and tracking progress against immediate priorities and longer-term milestones. -Competency Tracking & Metrics: Monitor and track competency acquisition activities across the engineering programme—including mandatory training—and maintain relevant metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to support decision-making and continuous improvement. -Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities to refine and evolve the strategy based on feedback, business changes, and emerging needs. Promote a culture of learning, adaptability, and ongoing professional development.

Requirements

• bpss clearance
• dbs check
• safety‑critical
• competency frameworks
• project tools
• nuclear experience

What You Bring

-Comfortable reviewing training requests and assessing value against strategic goals. -Able to translate technical requirements into business-aligned actions. -Experience developing KPIs and metrics to track progress. -Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance -Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check -Exposure to safety-critical systems and quality assurance processes -Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check -Experience developing or implementing competency strategies. -Interpersonal & Stakeholder Engagement Skills -Analytical & Continuous Improvement Mindset -Understanding of competency frameworks, skills taxonomies, and workforce capability planning. -Knowledge of Competency Frameworks & Skills Strategy -Proactive in identifying gaps and proposing solutions. -Comfortable facilitating workshops, consultations, and cross-functional discussions. -Knowledge of regulatory expectations around SQEP and training assurance. -Experience in planning and tracking delivery against strategic objectives. -Ability to manage budgets or funding streams related to training and development. -Familiarity with lifecycle stages from concept through to commissioning. -Demonstrated experience in delivering complex engineering programmes within regulated environments, ideally in nuclear or similarly high-integrity sectors. -Strong organisational skills to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, and stakeholder inputs. -Experience working across multiple engineering disciplines is beneficial, but we also welcome applicants from non-engineering backgrounds who can demonstrate relevant experience and transferable skills. -Skilled in influencing without authority. -Ability to interpret data, identify trends, and drive improvements in competency acquisition. -Familiarity with project management tools and reporting frameworks. -Ability to build strong relationships across technical and enabling functions (e.g. HR, D&C, programme teams).

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Benefits

-£250 - One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases -We anticipate paying a salary of between £48,000 - £62,500 DOE -Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions. -A flexible, inclusive, and supportive working environment. -Opportunities for career growth in a rapidly scaling business. -Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover health care -Holidays - 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days. -Bonus - Performance related target opportunity 12.5% -Benefits Allowance – £2,200 per annum, enabling you to create a bespoke package -Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay

About Rolls-Royce Smr

-A team of 15 engineers at Rolls‑Royce began designing a compact, scalable nuclear solution in 2016. -Blends decades of naval reactor experience with advanced manufacturing. -Modules are nearly 90% factory‑built across 1,500 parts, then shipped and assembled on site—cutting costs, time and complexity. -The company uses a boron-free primary circuit, eliminating toxic boric acid and reducing water use and waste. -Backed by strategic investors and partners like ČEZ and Siemens Energy to support global rollout. -Positions itself as a repeatable, investable product offering dependable 'always-on' clean energy to grids and industries.

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Security Clearance

-baseline personnel security standard (bpss) clearance -disclosure and barring service (dbs) check -basic financial probity check