Personnel Security & Aftercare Manager

Job Description

Main Responsibilities

Leadership of the team delivering personnel security and aftercare in accordance with HMG and Office for Nuclear Regulation requirements.

Ensuring that the delivery of the personnel security and aftercare function is proportionate and business enabling, whilst maintaining compliance with relevant regulatory objectives and outcomes as described in extant plans.

Lead the implementation and delivery of on-going personnel security management, arrangements, and procedures (Aftercare) to remain assured about the NWS staff and contractor community to mitigate the risks from well-placed insiders.

Implementation and maintenance of an insider risk framework for NWS to support the effective management of Personnel and Insider security risks to information, facilities, reputation, and other assets.

Continual review and improvement of NWS Personnel security function, to include policies, procedures, and work instructions as appropriate to improve effectiveness, meet developing organisational requirements and appropriate internal and external standards.

Support engagement with ONR CNSS with regards to personnel security and where required lead on interventions.

Provide advice, guidance and leadership on issues appropriate to personnel security, ensuring that relevant stakeholders receive timely warnings of any implications and be available to provide advice as to the adequacy of the personnel security controls implemented.

Apply and maintain personnel security controls to safeguard information, assets, services, and individuals in support of the LLWR site security plan and NWS security strategy.

The conduct of comprehensive personnel security risk assessments and to establish controls to achieve an acceptable level of residual personnel security risk.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a personnel security management role in a nuclear site licence company, a prospective Site License Company or a List N company.
• Significant understanding of HMG Functional Standards and HMG Personnel Security Policies, CPNI Insider Risk Mitigation Framework, National Security Vetting, the ONR Security Assessment Principles (SyAPs) and other legislation relevant to personnel security and/or nuclear industry.
• Extensive understanding of the principles, processes and challenges of personnel security and security risk management, and their practical application.
• Sound understanding of current security threats.
• Experience in setting team and individual performance objectives, monitoring performance, assessing progress, identifying emerging risks, issues, and opportunities, and taking corrective steps as required to ensure that the right results are achieved.
• Experience of managing personnel security inspections, audits, reviews etc. and using them with performance indicators to monitor performance and target improvement activities.
• Experience of stakeholder engagement, identifying key stakeholders and forging strong relationships to deliver business objectives and outcomes, using appropriate channels, to ensure they are engaged, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Experience of using project management techniques and ensuring the effective delivery of a personnel security programme in high profile projects and programmes.
• Effective judgement and decision-making skills, understanding strategic impact, gathering, and analysing relevant information, evaluating options, applying logical reasoning, and making effective and proportionate risk-based recommendations.

Desirable

• Membership of a professional institute / industry body.
• Completed CPNI Personnel Security Training Pathway.

Who are we?

Simply put, our job is to secure a safer future for us all. We do this by managing and disposing of the UK’s nuclear radioactive waste safely and securely for generations to come. We have a critical role in the biggest multi-decade clean-up project in Europe. As part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group, we provide permanent answers for nuclear waste.

Nuclear Waste Services builds on the work delivered at the Low-Level Waste Repository (LLWR) site and the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme, maintaining these key activities whilst also adding further essential services for customers in the nuclear energy, defence, industrial, medical, and research sectors. Maintaining and developing this knowledge and experience is key to securing and developing our unique nuclear waste capabilities for the UK and the rest of the world

If you join Nuclear Waste Services, you’ll be part of a team that brings together some of the most brilliant minds from around the UK, working across many specialisms – scientific, engineering, safety, operations, commercial, community engagement, and regulatory – to name a few.

We want Nuclear Waste Services to be a great place​ to work where people are respected, included and can perform at their best. We do this by living our Nuclear Waste Services values;
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We are action orientated ​​​​​​​- We deliver for our customers, partners, and people safely & securely.

We are collaborative and inclusive - We have greater success when we work together.

We are ambitious - We are problem solvers who embrace and act upon new challenges.​​​​​

We act with integrity - We are trusted to build a safe, secure and sustainable future

What's in it for you?

• On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave
• Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme)
• We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP
• learning and development support
• payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Financial advice assistance
• Flexible working
• Extended family-friendly policies
• Cycle to work scheme
• We welcome flexible and agile working practices
• Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment

Equal Opportunities

We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. At Nuclear Waste Service we are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.

In promoting equal opportunities, Nuclear Waste Service welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy. 

Please note: Nuclear Waste Services reserves the right to close the vacancy early. 

If you have any queries or would like to discuss this role, please email nws.recruitment@nuclearwasteservices.uk