Hybrid Principal Radiation Protection Consultant

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Principal Radiation Protection Consultant
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: £81,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Carlisle, United Kingdom

About the role

• Principal Radiation Protection Consultant at Cavendish Nuclear ensuring radiological safety and managing defence projects. Leading teams and providing technical guidance on radiation protection compliance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert for Radiation Protection on a major defence project.
• Drive technical solutions for a major defence programme whilst interfacing with a range of disciplines and stakeholders.
• Join a friendly and committed team of radiation protection specialists.
• Provide competent guidance and advice on radiological safety to ensure legislative compliance and adoption of industry best practice.
• Engage with multi-discipline teams to ensure that the design and operation of processes and plant is demonstrably ALARP.
• Ensure that procedures are correctly applied to technical activities.
• Co-ordinate the production of radiological protection documentation such as Normal Operational Dose Uptake Assessments, Radiological Zoning, Radiological Risk Assessments, ALARP Assessments, and Operating Instructions.
• Contribute to project scheduling, including definition of relevant deliverables and identifying dependencies.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a radiation protection role is essential.
• Clear ability to lead a technical team is essential.
• Experience interfacing with Safety Case personnel and other technical disciplines is desirable.
• Experience designing new processes and facilities is desirable.
• RPA2000 Certified Radiation Protection Adviser is essential.
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.