Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role ID: SF19279
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Range Safety Support Worker at our Pendine site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
The Role
As part of the Range Resource Team you will be responsible to the Resource Manager. The post holder will work within the Range Resource team supporting trials and ensuring the safety of the site.
Day-to-day, you’ll Carry out general duties, support knockout and signalling tasks, follow risk assessments and task instructions as well as apply health and safety and Environmental procedures, as well as keep up to date on training to make sure your competences are current and up to date.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Carry out duties as a lookout and range signaller
* Ensure compliance with risk assessments and task instructions
* Set up and prepare ranges in accordance with the relevant documentation
* Maintain core module skills and training (manual handling etc)
* Ensure robust application of Health, Safety & Environmental procedures and processes
* Attend training courses as applicable to ensure all competencies are current
Essential experience of the Range Safety Support Worker:
* Be proactive, focused, self-motivated with drive and enthusiasm and have a can-do approach
* Proven ability to solve problems
* Tele-handler and forklift experience would be advantageous, but not essential
* Good understanding of Health and Safety
* Ability to work and adhere to set processes.
Essential qualifications for the Range Safety Support Worker:
* Full clean driving licence
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hour per week based at Pendine.
Pendine
The QinetiQ Pendine facility, located on the coast of South Wales, is renowned for its extensive capabilities in testing and evaluating defence systems, particularly in the fields of weapons and vehicle performance. Pendine plays a critical role in the UK’s defence landscape providing essential services that contribute to the development and assurance of military hardware.
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
Our Benefits
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
* Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
* Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
* We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
* Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community
Our Recruitment Process:
We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)