Waste Innovation Material Technician
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £31,100. 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. A Waste Innovation Material Technician, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating Hazardous material handling on behalf of the UKAEA’s wider stakeholders within Tritium Fuel Cycle facilities. Act as the interface to support and enable the growth of the facilities and capability of the tritium fuel cycle so that the Division’s research objectives are achieved.
Key Accountabilities:
- Ensure that staff safety, health and welfare are maintained and adhered to in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Actively promote UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Liaise with external laboratories through the Erosion and Deposition Team to ensure material research and handling is meeting all requirements of internal projects and interfaces.
- Ensure operational work meets all requirements in accordance with the characterisation and consignment of waste compliance and regulations.
- Liaise with internal and external parties to ensure effective interface across all stakeholders to meet deliverables and deadlines.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of interfaces with programmes of work and projects aligned with the divisions programme strategy.
- Coordinate timely and relevant procurement for equipment, components, and materials as and when appropriate, ensuring value for money for experiments and research within associated facilities.
- Share knowledge and contribute to current best-practice, helping to inform project decision-making.
- Supervise operational tasks in accordance with UKAEA process and to enable maximising efficiency within facilities.
- Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Experience working in a radioactive environment with good contamination and process knowledge.
- Understanding of safety management systems, including hazard identification, risk assessments and hazard elimination and mitigation.
- Practical experience of Handling potentially contaminated and radioactive material.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills - able to manage logistical operations to internal and external stakeholders.
- Good planning, organising and time management skills including the ability to prioritise workload.
- Demonstrably proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Desirable:
- Formal recognised apprenticeship or equivalent technical or mechanical engineering qualification or equivalent experience.
- Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience of quality management or systems in a technical environment.
- An IOSH Managing Safely certificate or an equivalent recognised occupational Health and Safety qualification.
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.
