Job Title:              Radioactive Waste Engineer
Location:              Plymouth, Devon
Compensation:    £43,935 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF61381

 

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Radioactive Waste Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

 

The role
As a Radioactive Waste Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We’re seeking a Radioactive Waste Engineer to join a friendly and motivated team of people, who are proud to ensure that our management of radioactive waste is compliant and safe, through to disposal. The role will be managed by the team’s Principal Radioactive Waste Engineer, overseen by a wider radioactive waste directorate.

 

Day-to-day, you’ll be ensuring work conducted across the dockyard is undertaken safely and in accordance with our regulatory processes.   

 

To provide waste management expertise in support of the characterisation, processing, sentencing, and packaging of radioactive wastes.  Provision of advice and guidance to major submarine programmes to enable timely treatment and/or disposal of their radioactive waste arisings. Development and implementation of relevant documentation, ensuring compliance with licences and permits relating to radioactive waste through the application of best available techniques assessments. This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

 

Essential experience of the Radioactive Waste Engineer

An applied understanding of radioactive waste management at a nuclear licensed site.  A familiarity of regulatory and environmental legislation in the UK Nuclear Industry.  Numeracy, literacy, and IT proficient.  Excellent writing skills, including the ability to communicate key technical information at various levels. Radioactive waste management experience – Desirable.

 

Qualifications for the Radioactive Waste Engineer

STEM subject degree or equivalent.  

 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.
 

 

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. 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 DigiCare+ 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 Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

 

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

 

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: 17/01/2025

 

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