Job Description The salary for this role is £71,815 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for a minimum of 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working. This role is based at the following site: Whitehaven, Cumbria 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 We are looking for a Principal Technologist to act as a technical expert, providing leadership on complex tooling and equipment for remotely operated robotic systems used in nuclear decommissioning. You will work across the full lifecycle, including research, development, design, demonstration, and deployment. You will support RAICo (Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Collaboration) by contributing to strategic development and leading the technical delivery of the Tooling and Equipment Focus area within RAICo. This includes managing engineering projects delivered by multidisciplinary teams and supply chain partners. If you have strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead and work effectively as part of a team, and a genuine appetite to learn and apply new technologies, we would like to hear from you. Key Accountabilities: Develop, improve, and extend the design of tooling and equipment for nuclear decommissioning projects such as size reduction, decontamination, and contamination prevention, while ensuring quality engineering outputs and knowledge transfer across work packages. Provide expert-level design knowledge and technical leadership for robotic systems, coordinating integration with robotic and intelligent systems. Contribute to and implement the strategy for the Tooling and Equipment focus area within RAICo, managing procurement, commissioning, and system integration activities. Plan and deliver engineering projects, estimating effort, costs, and timescales, and ensuring outputs meet time, quality, cost, and risk performance criteria. Act as a key technical interface and representative with internal and external stakeholders, providing mentorship, and guidance to technologists, engineers, and project teams. Lead safe project delivery through the production of Work Control Packs and other safe systems of work, maintaining high standards across the tooling and equipment portfolio.