Job Title: Principal Shielding Consultant
Location: Flexible, UK with site visits to either Coventry or Reading
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60622
At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Shielding Consultant.
The role As a Principal Radiation Shielding Consultant, you'll be a shielding analyst with a role that's out of the ordinary. You will join a friendly and committed team of radiation protection and shielding specialists, and drive technical solutions for a major defence programme whilst interfacing with a range of disciplines and stakeholders.
You will be joining our team at a time of growth, allowing you to make your mark and build networks across the business and externally, supporting your career progression and personal development. You will act as an in-house, intelligent customer working with primarily sub-contractors.
Day-to-day, you'll deliver radiation models and calculations, including for shielding, dose assessment and neutron activation.
Author shielding reports and related calculation notes, and verification of others' work.Supervise the work of junior technical specialists within the same discipline.Integrate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that shielding issues are identified across projects and that consistent approaches are adopted, and timely support provided to all relevant project stakeholders.Contribute to the enhancement of existing shielding procedures.This role is full time, 37 hours per week, adaptable and can be delivered from various locations, and provides hybrid working arrangements with two days in the office per week.
Essential experience of the Principal Shielding Consultant: Proven experience in a shielding role.Excellent working knowledge of radiation transport codes.Clear ability to lead a technical team.Experience interfacing with other technical disciplines.Experience designing new processes and facilities.Qualifications for the Principal Shielding Consultant: Degree in a relevant scientific or engineering technical discipline.As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.
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 ****** 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.
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