Active Waste Chemist – Expiring soon!

Job description

We have an excellent opportunity for an Active Waste Chemist at our Fawley site.

To support the Radioactives Business Manager with running the Radioactive (RA) waste team at Tradebe Fawley, ensuring the compliant and safe control of radioactive inputs onto and through the Fawley site that will provide revenue growth to the business.

We offer

• Salary £40,000 – £45,000
• 10% bonus
• 6% Pension
• Flexible benefits (access to our benefits platform for discounts and cash back on shopping purchases, gyms and leisure activities, cycle to work scheme and dedicated wellbeing centre)

The person

• Qualified Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS) or working towards – Desirable
• Computer literate (MS Excel, MS Word and SAP)
• Excellent attention to detail
• Team Player
• Positive attitude
• Professional approach
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good communicator
• Ability to solve problems
• Aware of the need for discretion and confidentiality
• Be flexible to meet deadlines and to be able to work under specified and agreed time constraints
• Profit and service focussed whilst maintaining compliance at all times
• Ability to manage staff (act as a line manager)
• H&S and Environmental Legislation
• Knowledge of ADR regulations relating to radioactive materials as a minimum but ideally with a relevant qualification
• Knowledge of the UK radioactive waste management and nuclear industry
• Knowledge of hazardous waste processing particularly chemical and physical wastes considerations
• Commercial Knowledge
• Experience of SAP

The role

• To support the RA Business Manager in leading and managing the cradle to grave process of RA incineration at Fawley from initial enquiry through all phases of processing to final disposal, ensuring an efficient and professional service at all times.
• Act as Radiation Protection Supervisor for Fawley site, providing appropriate training for site staff and contractors on radiation awareness, specific radiological hazards on site and monitoring for radiological contamination.
• Producing radiological risk assessments and maintaining monitoring systems and documentation in line with IRR2017 to ensure the radiological protection of staff working on site
• Develop and Maintain Work Instructions for all tasks associated with radioactive waste at Fawley, including the training & development of personnel in relation to handling radioactive materials and being the lead responsible person for dosimetry monitoring of staff members at Fawley.
• To ensure compliance is maintained at all times against the sites Radioactive Environmental Permit with adherence to procedures, RPS control of operations and maintenance of accurate records including instrument calibration, site monitoring and routine safety checks.
• Support the maintenance of systems of work that ensure data integrity for accuracy of reporting KPI’s to customers and to regulatory bodies such as the Environment Agency.
• Liaise with the nominated Radiation Protection Advisor on all aspects of radiological business
• Act as a point of contact for new enquiries, advising on characterisation and packaging to ensure conformance with waste acceptance criteria, undertaking capability reviews of new waste streams when required and acting as Deputy Delivery Manager for key contracts, ensuring KPIs are met and working with the customer to resolve issues and non-conformances.
• Manage a team of technical staff, ensuring training requirements are met and records of development and progression are maintained. Assisting the RA Business Manager in managing the dynamic priorities of the department, including setting internal KPIs and monitoring the performance of the team.

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• Managing the brokering and tracking of large contract jobs in partnership with external customers and internal sites, both internationally and within the UK, including use of SAP management systems.
• Pricing waste streams in accordance with existing pricing matrices, identifying waste streams where a pricing review or involvement of other business areas would be beneficial and participation in the generation of new pricing structures for bids and tenders.
• Applying your broad knowledge of the radioactive waste industry and plant processes to support sales teams when writing bids, informing decisions on pricing and risk reduction, reaching back into the varied specialist departments within Tradebe Fawley departments and across Tradebe UK when required for more detailed technical requests or specific queries.
• Support the RA business manager with Annual reporting activities such as Sealed sources registration and compliance.
• Attend Fawley and group wide meetings to inform on upcoming projects and ensure good inter-departmental communication.
• Leading site tours and visits from customers and other stakeholders, for example during site audits and duty of care visits.
• Willing to train as a Deputy programmer of radioactive waste to be disposed of at the Fawley site