Senior Waste and Decommissioning Consultant

Job Title:             Senior Waste & Decommissioning Consultant 
Location:             Bristol, Warrington, or Cumbria + Hybrid Working Arrangement 
Compensation:   £48,300 - £61,500 + Benefits
Role Type:          Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:              SF53842

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 Senior Waste & Decommissioning Consultant at our Bristol, Warrington, or Cumbria site.
 

The role
As a Senior Waste & Decommissioning Consultant you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will have the opportunity to interface with various well-known customers, granting you great exposure externally, as well as working collaboratively with key stakeholders to provide expert advice and to develop solutions. 

Day to day, you’ll be our specialist with a wide breath of nuclear waste knowledge to support the management and delivery of technical activities and innovative projects relating to Nuclear Waste Characterisation, Management, Decommissioning and Strategy. 

• Provide resolution to a range of technical issues and problems (inclusive of decision-making processes). 
• Produce technical reports and accompany presentations, provide expert reviews, and adhere to specifications in accordance with stakeholder requirements. 
• Provide expert advice within your discipline, develop business awareness, build strong working relationships with stakeholders, lead small single-discipline teams either to deliver a project or within larger multi-disciplinary projects.
• Support the development and delivery of waste consultancy opportunities and capability in line with Cavendish Nuclear & Nuclear Services business stream strategy and growth plans. 
• Support and guide the development of junior staff to grow the capability. 

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 - 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 - 3 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 
 

Essential experience of the Senior Waste & Decommissioning Consultant

• Strong experience of working within the nuclear industry, with good, applied knowledge and hands-on expertise. 
• Waste characterisation planning (e.g. DQO) and Waste Inventory
• Waste packaging and transportation
• Development and implementation of integrated waste management strategies
• Option identification and assessments
• Environmental planning, legislation, permitting and assessment studies (e.g. BPM, BAT)

Qualifications for the Senior Waste & Decommissioning Consultant 

• Engineering or Science Degree, or HNC (desirable) 

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. 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
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. 
• Growth opportunities.

Cavendish Nuclear
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 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: 16/09/2024

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