Waste Innovation Experiment Technician

The salary for this role is 31100. Onsite working is expected for 5 days a week however we actively support requests for flexible working. 

This role is based at the following site; Culham Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data. 

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Waste Innovation Experiment Technician you will play a pivotal role in delivering scientific research activities on behalf of the facilities within Tritium Fuel Cycle. You will interface in support of growing the facilities and capability of the Tritium Fuel Cycle to enable the Divisions research objectives to be achieved.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure that staff safety health and welfare are maintained and adhered to in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Actively promote UKAEAs values championing a culture of equality diversity and inclusion.
• Conduct all practical workbased activities in a controlled manner in accordance with work package requirements time and budget.
• Improve project delivery capability through training supervision of tasks providing guidance and sharing knowledge.
• Liaise with internal and external parties to ensure effective collaboration across interfaces.
• Coordinate timely and relevant procurement for equipment components and materials as and when appropriate ensuring value for money for experiments and research within associated facilities
• Share knowledge and contribute to best practice helping to inform project decisionmaking.
• Contribute to the interfaces of new research projects and experimental work aligned with the divisions research programme strategy.
• Supervise research teams within Facilities to coordinating activities whilst ensuring all relevant health and safety are met.
• Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager.

Qualifications :

Essential:

• Experience working in a radioactive environment with good contamination and process knowledge.
• Understanding of safety management systems including hazard identification risk assessments and hazard elimination and mitigation.
• Practical experience of carrying out experimental research projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills able to articulate complex technical information to both specialist and nonspecialist audiences.
• Good planning organising and time management skills including the ability to prioritise workload.
• Demonstrably proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite in particular Word Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable:

• Experience working with hazardous/radioactive materials
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of quality management or systems in a technical environment.
• An IOSH Managing Safely certificate or an equivalent recognised occupational Health and Safety qualification

Additional Information :

A full list of our benefits can be found here  welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from underrepresented groups particularly from women in STEM people from Black British Caribbean and African Pakistani and Bangladeshi British and other ethnic minority backgrounds people with disabilities and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team supported by our Head of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications. 

For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks:https://www/government/publications/criminalrecordschecksforoverseasapplicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.