Job Title: Radiation Safety Officer
Location: Faslane, Helensburgh + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £66,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60178
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Radiation Safety Officer at our HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Helensburgh site.
The role
As a Radiation Safety Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Joining a small team of professional health physicists, every day will be different keeping your workload varied. You will provide advice, guidance, and support training initiatives on radiation protection, radioactive waste management and transport of radioactive materials for HM Naval Base Clyde.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for ensuring HMNB Clyde’s policies and procedures are up to date ensuring our compliance with the relevant statutory regulations and authorisation conditions. As a Radiation Safety Officer with us at Babcock International, your ongoing development to Radiological Protection Advisor (RPA) will be fully supported and an impressive portfolio achievable due to the varied workload you will undertake.
- You will assist in the management of Radiation Safety across HMNB Clyde including the implementation of the companies and our customers safety, quality and environmental policies ensuring that assessments of risks are carried out.
- Assist the Base Radiation Safety Officer in maximising the utilisation and the efficiency of all the section’s resource, ensuring that all tasks are carried out in accordance with our cost, time, and quality requirements.
- Ensure HMNB Clyde’s Safety management practices incorporate any new legislation, directives from Ministry of Defence and any other good practice that is shared across the Nuclear Industry.
- Act as Emergency Response Personnel to reported potential or actual nuclear incidents and/or events at HMNB Clyde, this will include partaking in an on-call rota.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements once you are fully competent within the role. As part of the role, you will be on call for 1 week out of every 3.
Essential experience of the Radiation Safety Officer
- Demonstratable experience as a health physicist with a working knowledge of radiological protection. Ideally you will also have experience of radioactive waste disposal and/or transport of radioactive materials substances environment.
- Ability to carry out an analysis of a wide range of problem-based issues, thinking laterally and pragmatically, identifying causal factors and related solutions.
- Previous participation in nuclear accident/emergency exercises would be an advantage.
Qualifications for the Radiation Safety Officer
- A Science or Nuclear Engineering degree.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What We Offer
- 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 the majority of 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
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 22/11/2024
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