Job Title: Radioactive Waste Specialist - Submarines
Working Pattern: 37 Hours days
Working Location: Derby Raynesway
We have an exciting opportunity for a Radioactive Waste Specialist/Engineer to join Rolls-Royce Submarines Limited based in Derby.
The role will provide specialist advice on radioactive waste and environmental matters within the Core Manufacturing Nuclear Licensed Sites. You will have the opportunity to grow and develop your career in line with our Career Development Framework and further down the line there will be career opportunities available across various different business units.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.
We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
We'll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
What we offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three - four days per week.
What you will be doing
You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with the EPR Radioactive Substances Regulations and relevant aspects of the Installations permits and Site Licence conditions, transport legislation and supporting management arrangements. Specific areas of work will be:
1. Optimisation of disposal routes for radioactive wastes and conventional wastes, including permitted discharges.
2. Characterisation of materials and items. (It is therefore desirable to have an understanding of the Nuclear Industry Guides and the processes and statistical methods described).
3. Support the effective deployment of company-wide policies, processes, systems and procedures ensuring that at all times the business remains compliant.
Who we're looking for:
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
To be successful in this role you will need:
* A degree (minimum 2:2) or equivalent in relevant discipline OR hold or be working towards a professional qualification in relevant area.
* Significant experience working on Nuclear Licensed Sites in the areas of Radioactive Waste and Environmental Management is desirable.
* To hold or be willing to work towards Radioactive Waste Advisor status.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.
Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.
Closing date: 10/12/2024
Job Category: HS & E
Posting Date: 19 Dec 2024; 00:12
Posting End Date: 18 Jan 2025
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