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Radiation Shielding Consultant
Category: Nuclear Operations
Salary: Salary up to £61,405 dependent on experience
Closing Date: 2024-08-02
Location: Risley, Cheshire
Job introduction
The salary range for this position is £56,168 to £61,405 (Grade 4A)
If you have any queries regarding the position itself please contact Anton Murfin
Please be aware that all new appointments will be made in-line with the PLC ‘New’ terms & conditions. Therefore, if you are not already on PLC ‘New’ terms & conditions and you are selected and accept this role, there will be changes made to your contractual terms. The terms and conditions of the role will be made clear in the offer letter.
If you have any queries about the impact of applying for this role on your terms & conditions, pay, pension or benefits, please contact the HR Support Team.
Job Description
The National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has a radiation shielding consultant vacancy for a growing capability within NNL. The successful candidate can expect to work on exciting and innovative projects to assist NNL and the wider UK in its missions; particularly in clean energy and net zero. We have invested in all major radiation transport codes such as MCBEND, RANKERN, MCNP, SCALE and Attila.
Together with a new cluster the successful candidate will have a great opportunity to develop their career. Full training will be provided with a dedicated training plan.
The location for this role is flexible and can be based at Risley, Preston or Sellafield.
Main responsibilities
Main Responsibilities for Radiation Shielding Consultant:
- Lead on the technical delivery of projects to time, cost and quality.
- Technically Lead on small projects.
- Assist/ Mentor in the delivery and training of less experienced members of the team.
- Working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team finding optimal and ALARP solutions to shielding design.
- Developing and maintaining skills for radiation shielding and continuing professional development.
- Active involvement in both internal and external presentations at conferences and relevant national industry groups.
Ideal candidate
Essential Criteria for Radiation Shielding Consultant:
- Degree in a STEM subject.
- Demonstrable experience is required in radiation shielding design and/or use of radiation transport codes.
- Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years’ worth of UK residency).
Desirable Criteria for Radiation Shielding Consultant:
- Physics Degree.
- Experience in computer programming such as Python for pre and post processing activities.
Why join us?
NNL isn’t just a place where you can do career-defining work that makes a real-world impact. It’s also a place where you’ll feel appreciated and valued. We’re creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We put your wellbeing first, we push you to reach your potential, and we do everything possible to help you feel safe, supported and inspired.
We also offer a range of employee benefits:
- Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage.
- NNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, NNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), NNL will still contribute 10%.
- Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.
- Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK
- Company Bonus: Be rewarded for your contributions.
- Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.
- Employee Assistance: Access support for personal and professional challenges.
- Cycle to Work: Stay active and eco-friendly.
- Life Assurance: Ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
- Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits: Receive support during illness or injury.
- Access to ‘Mydiscounts’ which has a range of special offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance.
- Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).
About The Company
NNL is where your solutions solve real-world problems. As part of our Engineering team, you’ll not only be able to get involved with a huge variety of projects, you’ll also have lots of opportunity to drive them through from start to finish – allowing you to see the impact your work has in a real-world environment. This is your chance to use your experience, expertise and ingenuity to collaborate with leading scientists. You’ll be part of a team that delivers work to benefit society by advancing cleaner energy, protecting the environment and keeping everyone safe.
NNL is an incredible place to work. A place where people do things that have never been done before. A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business and society as a whole.
This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.
Recruitment Agency Notice
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned.
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