Senior Radiation Materials Consultant-(EST00022O)
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity:
You will work on a range of experimental and desk-based consultancy projects for customers including power generators, owners of radioactive wastes and nuclear materials, and aerospace developers, both in the UK and overseas. Our established client portfolio includes EDF (UK and France), Sellafield Ltd, Rolls Royce, Airbus, Teledyne, e2v, and ONDRAF-NIRAS. The work includes a variety of activities across the areas of materials assessment and testing and, more broadly, support to our consultancy activities. Duties include:
1. Deploying desk-based and lab/analytical capabilities to assess, rationalise and document solutions for a variety of materials science, radiation physics and chemistry problems in the field of irradiated materials assessment, testing, and radioactive waste management, including definition, design of test programmes, and subsequent data analysis and interpretation.
2. Routine access to our in-house gamma-irradiation facility based at Harwell to oversee the setup and execution of key experiments/tests and to enable access to the facility by key clients.
3. Demonstrating and promoting the highest levels of health and safety in all aspects of the role.
4. Leading the production of high-quality technical reports, as main author and/or coordinating other technical resources.
5. Reviewing and assimilating data/information and technical reports produced by other members of the team.
6. Leading successful interactions with clients, including presentation of key results and their interpretation in the context of client needs.
7. Leading business development activities (including competitive bidding) in relevant technical areas.
8. Carrying out project management and project control activities.
9. Taking ownership of agreed work areas, and delivering work to agreed timescales, quality and cost.
Jacobs is committed to the continuing professional development of our staff. You will have excellent opportunities to progress by furthering your technical, project management, and commercial capabilities and broadening into the wider interests of our company.
Here's What You'll Need:
Primary Location
:United Kingdom-United Kingdom Countrywide-Didcot-UK Harwell Thomson Avenue HQ Building
Job Posting
:Apr 17, 2024, 11:27:10 AM
Job
:Scientific Research & Testing
Organization
:CMS
Job Type
:ExperiencedJob Classification:Fulltime-Regular
Work Locations
:UK Harwell Thomson Avenue HQ BuildingThomson Avenue, Harwell OxfordDidcotOX11 0GDCapabilities:Nuclear Cleanup and Decommissioning