Specialist Nuclear Materials Inventory Control Operations
Specialist Nuclear Materials Inventory Control Operations
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: £36,000 - £45,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Let us introduce the role.
AWE is currently recruiting for a Specialist Nuclear Material Control Operations in our Nuclear Materials Control team working within our Operations function.
As Specialist Nuclear Material Control Operations, you will be responsible for:
1. Nuclear material inventory management and material control activities including accounts management, preparation of operational documents, and training of a team of Nuclear Material Controllers to meet Licence Condition requirements.
2. Task managing a team of material controllers to deliver programme demands.
3. Providing Nuclear Material inventory control related advice to facility, project, and production staff on all nuclear material control related matters.
4. Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external customers and key stakeholders.
5. Delivering management information as required, at all levels across the team and the wider business.
6. Undertaking technical review of documents to ensure compliance with overarching legislation.
7. Ensuring that companywide processes, standards, and procedures are embodied in local work instructions and complied with by undertaking an appropriate range of checks and audits.
8. Conducting regular audits of local work instructions to ensure compliance with companywide processes, standards, and procedures.
Who are we looking for?
We’d like you to have experience in some of the following:
* Ability to plan, prioritise and task workload, deliver in an organised manner and present results to senior managers.
* Good organisational, written, and verbal communication skills.
* Ability to work in operational, controlled high hazard and highly regulated environments.
* Strong relationship building skills with the ability to influence.
* Capable of resolving problems including those arising through interaction with other sections/departments and external customers.
* Experience of collating and interpreting data to produce analytical reports.
* Proficient in MS Office applications including MS Word and Excel.
* HNC/Degree in a technical discipline or relevant operational experience.
* Work within Ionising Radiation Regulations and in compliance with Licence Conditions.
Most importantly, you will be working with a remarkable team supporting the delivery of extraordinary things. You’ll be set for success if you have some of the following skills and experience:
* Knowledge of Inventory Control, storage, handling, and movement of Radioactive/Hazardous Materials.
* Knowledge of radiological and criticality safety hazard management.
You'll need to have the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority changing environment and be able to manage your own and your team’s workload. You will also have initiative, enthusiasm, a flexible approach, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:
* 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave. Depending on facility a 4-day working week.
* Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
* Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
* Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
* Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
* Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
* 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.
Important things you need to know:
* You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
* We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
* Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
Due to the nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston. Typically, 4 days onsite per week.
About AWE
If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue, and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE. We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before.
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