Senior Assurance Officer

Location:Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Carlisle, GB, CA20 1PG Reading, GB, RG14 2PZ

Company: Cavendish Nuclear

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Assurance Officer
Location: Warrington, Bristol, Cumbria or Newbury + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58783

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Assurance Officer at our Warrington, Bristol, Cumbria or Newbury sites.

The role
As a Senior Assurance Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will lead the planning and effective delivery of independent assurance activities including audits, topic reviews and studies, as well as supporting the Head of Assurance to establish and maintain the strategic approach to Assurance.

Day-to-day, you’ll establish, maintain, and deliver an effective system of assurance for activities in Cavendish Nuclear. Our Senior Assurance Officer is responsible for providing the Cavendish Nuclear Executive with confidence that our capability, strategic resourcing, assurance and engineering processes and procedures are adequate to manage risk at a tolerable level.

• Support the Head of Assurance through maintaining the Assurance Process, Assurance Programme and related Business Management System arrangements.
• Identify non-conformities, opportunities for improvement and positive findings and supporting the business in addressing such findings.
• Support external Assurance activities e.g. Certification Body, Regulatory and customer Audits
• Provide coaching and support on Assurance related matters at all levels across the business.
• Support other business critical Assurance and Governance related activities e.g. Business continuity activities

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 – 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 - 3 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Senior Assurance Officer

• Extensive experience in business assurance management for example strong knowledge of project governance, project lifecycle, business reporting or Health, Safety, Environment and quality.
• Experience working with senior leadership team with ability to present and influence
• Relevant and recent industry experience

Qualifications for the Senior Assurance Officer

• HND or HNC in an appropriate discipline or appropriate level of experience
• Membership of a relevant industry professional body
• Degree level qualification preferred

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Flexible locations.
• Opportunities to travel within the UK.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 26/09/2024

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