Continuous Improvement and Organisational Learning Lead

Originally named, Great British Nuclear,
Great British Energy
- Nuclear is an arm's length body of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, dedicated to supporting the development and deployment of new nuclear technologies in Great Britain. We play a crucial role in advancing nuclear new build, ensuring the UK's energy security and achieving net-zero carbon emissions. Great British Energy
- Nuclear focuses on fostering innovation, facilitating investment, and coordinating efforts across the nuclear industry to build a resilient and sustainable energy future.

The Continuous Improvement and Organisational Learning Lead plays a vital role in embedding a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence across GBE-N and its delivery partners. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining robust processes for incident investigation, root cause analysis, and organisational learning.

You will work closely with Integrated Project Teams (IPTs), Delivery Partners, Technology Partners, Construction Partner and a range of internal stakeholders to ensure that a board range of organisational and operational lessons are captured, shared, and embedded effectively. Your work will directly contribute to improving safety, performance, and reliability across GBE-N's nuclear programmes.

Please note, Warrington will be the primary base location; however, due to the nature of the role, there will be an expectation of occasional travel to and on-site work  role operates on a hybrid working basis.

• Promote a proactive event, non-conformity, and observation reporting and learning culture that supports GBE-N's values and strategic objectives across all business functions and projects.
• Establish governance and procedures for sentencing, reporting of notifiable events to enforcing authorities, capturing and sharing organisational learning across GBE-N and its partners.
• Develop and implement a structured investigation process and root cause analysis methodology, leading and supporting investigations into events and incidents, identifying root and contributory causes where required.
• Design and implement metrics to monitor the effectiveness of a positive reporting culture and learning from experience, including repeat event analysis.
• Define and track corrective actions to prevent recurrence, ensuring timely closure and verification.
• Facilitate the dissemination of lessons learned across the GBE-N, Project Teams, Delivery Partners, Technology Partners, Construction Partners, and wider supply chain.
• Conduct effectiveness reviews to assess the embedding of organisational learning.
• Maintain and report on key performance indicators related to event reporting, action management, operational learning and improvement.
• Promote a proactive learning culture that supports GBE-N's values and strategic objectives, including the dissemination of industry wide relevant learning from the nuclear and other high hazard industries.

• Proven experience in operational excellence, incident investigation, or continuous improvement within a high-hazard or regulated industry (e.g. nuclear, energy, aerospace).
• Strong working knowledge of event reporting and organisational learning in the context of the construction project lifecycle and the practical application of learning during: site mobilisation, setup of welfare, traffic management interfaces, enabling works, earthworks, lifting, temporary works, civil construction, mechanical and electrical installation, commissioning and handover in high-hazard/regulated industry.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders and the supply chain at all…