AWE are currently recruiting for a Radiological Waste Administrator.
Location - Reading / Basingstoke area
Package - £27,360 - £36,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)
Closing Date: 11th March 2024
Benefits
As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:
* Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
* Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time.
* Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training.
* Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
* A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution).
* Life Assurance.
* Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
* Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family.
* A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site.
This role will be to manage the sentencing and recording of RA solid and non-aqueous RA Waste on behalf of AWE and ensure compliance with third party Waste Acceptance Criteria.
Responsibilities
* Identify and assess any assay necessary to be undertaken to support RA waste sentencing.
* Identifying new effective and efficient disposal opportunities for AWE RA waste materials, where appropriate.
* Support the RA Waste Route Owner in optimising waste management services in line with regulatory and business requirements.
* Governance of the creation, maintenance and secure storage of lifetime records associated with Radioactive Waste.
* Identify waste suitability for external consignment via the LLWR/MOD framework contract.
* Co-ordinate the construction of consignments within the Solid Radioactive Waste Management Record System database.
* Generate accurate waste consignment paperwork and review appropriate approvals from receiving sites prior to transporting RA Waste.
* Generate and ensure waste and consignment containers are acceptable to destination site.
* Ensure AWE remains within its Permits, Authorisations and allocations.
Skills
* A good standard of basic education
* Strong mathematical skills
* Working knowledge of RA Waste Operations
* Working knowledge of Nuclear Material transfers
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