Criticality Safety Assessment Expert
A unique opportunity to work on complex and challenging criticality safety assessments has arisen.
About the Role:
* This position involves providing lead technical criticality safety support and advice to facility, operational or project management teams, influencing as necessary.
* The successful candidate will set the criticality safety assessment strategy for modifications and new build activities and maintain and improve our company's suite of management arrangements for criticality safety.
* The ideal candidate will have honours degree (or equivalent) in science, engineering or closely related discipline, with experience in nuclear physics, chemistry and metallurgy of fissile material.
* Key Responsibilities:
o Leading the technical delivery of critical safety tasking supporting the company's fissile material operations.
o Supporting external activities, as required, as part of the Critical Safety Authority Outreach and Science Programme.
o Nuclear baseline role: directly supporting work with nuclear materials and engaging with other safety assessment specialists in support of a common goal.
o Maintaining and improving AWE's suite of company management arrangements for criticality safety that reflect relevant good practice and modern standards.
* What We Offer:
o A competitive salary package.
o Opportunities for professional career development.
o An employee assistance programme and occupational health services.
o Discounts on everyday spending.
o Paid time off for volunteering, public service and caring.
About You:
* You must have a detailed knowledge of criticality safety assessment techniques and principles, and be able to demonstrate good engineering and scientific judgement.
* Experience in methodologies used in criticality safety and an overview of regulatory methods outside the UK is essential.
* You should be able to articulate and communicate clearly and concisely technical programmes, problems and risks to internal and external stakeholders.
* Professional membership to a relevant chartered body is desirable.