Technical Coordinator

Overview of Responsibilities

The salary for this role is £31,100. This role primarily requires onsite presence, with potential for remote work one day per week in the future after probation period.

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 a Technical Coordinator, you will play a pivotal role in providing technical administration and coordination duties to teams and projects in support of the RRDD(Robotics, Repurposing & Decommissioning Directorate) portfolio, ensuring that Technical Control procedures are followed and proactively work with these procedures, and to maintain accurate and effective documentation.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Create and manage key technical documentation.
  • Be accountable for the management and maintenance of SharePoint data and spreadsheet management.
  • Create and maintain spreadsheets and create summary dashboard documents for reporting.
  • Support the unit leaders with change management with respect to Technical Control Documents and Work Control Documents.
  • Support the section leaders, group leaders and engineers with the many technical and co-ordination duties involved across the programs.
  • Ensure operations and technical control procedures are followed and proactively work with these procedures, producing, checking, and validating to maintain accurate “live” documents.
  • Support with recruitment campaigns from an administrative perspective.
  • Assist in maintaining skills matrixes across the directorate.
  • Provide technical secretary duties including organising meetings, taking minutes, creating summary reports and action log follow up.
  • Support new starters induction and onboarding.
  • Support the early careers members and schemes, including internships, graduates, and apprentices.
  • Provide procurement liaison support, helping across teams to track orders and supporting procurement and delivery to the manufacturing teams.
  • Assist in collating information for key reporting e.g., Directors Reports.
  • Manage skills data processing and management.
  • Support training plans and training records.
  • Maintain organisational charts.
  • Highlight conferences, road shows relevant for technical development.
  • Maintain standards records.
  • Maintain schedule for apprentice placements.
Salary
£31,100 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
Programme
RACE
Department
Operations and Technology
Discipline
Type of Employment
Full-time
Reference Number
REF3483V

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.

Benefits 

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

  • Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
  • Corporate bonus scheme up to 7and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
  • Flexible working options including family friendly policies.
  • Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders, 
  • Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
  • Wide range of career development opportunities
  • A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive
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What can I expect from the application process at UKAEA?

Once you have submitted a formal application via our website, all CVs will be reviewed shortly after the closing date of the advert.

  • Submit online application

  • Phone interview

  • Face-to-face or virtual interview

  • Other assessments

Company Description

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA are at the forefront of realising energy from fusion, working with industry and research partners to deliver the ground-breaking developments that will underpin tomorrow's fusion power stations with the aim of bringing fusion electricity to the grid.

As we work towards our mission and goals, UKAEA has devised values that capture the spirit of how we work. These values include being: Innovative, Committed, Trusted and Collaborative.

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