Nuclear Technician
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £34,568 inclusive of Specialist Allowance. Onsite working is expected for 5 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role is based at the following site; Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Nuclear Technician, you will play a pivotal role in focusing on the maintenance and management of the Radiological Assay and Detection Lab (Nuclear measurement lab-RADLab) to facilitate the successful delivery of services and R&D delivered by the ART group. Working alongside experimental nuclear physicists, external collaborators and with other divisions at the UKAEA, including Health Physics, you will contribute important practical support for equipment, plans and procedures.
Key Accountabilities:
- Support experimental activities relevant to the services provided in characterisation and assay by the RADLab, for example:
- Ensure new work is captured in project request forms and provide quotes
- Arrange health physics support for transporting and clearing samples
- Collect data and uploading where appropriate
- Transport and set up equipment for in-situ measurements
- Update the project status in the tracker.
- Support the maintenance, calibration, development, and deployment of nuclear diagnostics (gamma or neutron), for example:
- Asset management, including software license management, and stock monitoring for consumable items
- Facilitate deliveries, which might require coordinating work with the rigging team
- Arrange and facilitating routine lab checks, including PAT testing, scales calibration, lift equipment assessments, gas and liquid nitrogen refills
- Routine lab maintenance, including filter changes, quality assurance checks, and annual re-calibration of detectors. Arranging equipment repairs as required
- Tidy of the lab space.
- Contribute towards preparation of reports and documentation, particularly:
- Risk assessments
- Method statements
- Signage.
- Provide training, lab inductions and tours as required, and manage access to data and reports.
- Contribute to improving best practices and quality standards within the team, division and across the organisation.
- Ensure your behaviour promotes the safety, health and welfare of yourself and colleagues.
- Promote UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by Management.
Qualifications
Essential:
- A-Level in a STEM-related discipline, or similar level of experience.
- Good understanding of health and safety best practices, particularly in a lab environment.
- Highly self-motivated and demonstrating initiative and able to work in diverse teams.
- Good demonstratable verbal and written communication skills, particularly with regards to writing concise and impactful documents.
- IT literate, fluent in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
- Good planning, organising and time management skills.
Desirable:
- Working towards a degree in engineering, physics, chemistry, technology or similar science.
- Experience in implementation of STEM skills in R&D programmes.
- Experience working with radioactive material.
- Experience of delivering workstreams related to key fusion challenges.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/.
We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.
