Assistant Health Physicist

☞ Babcock International Group

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Dunfermline Scotland

Category: Executive management Production / Operation

Industry: Defense Space Manufacturing

Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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Job Title: Assistant Health Physicist

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline. UK – Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary & Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF51396

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 Assistant Health Physicist at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Assistant Health Physicist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. At Rosyth Dockyard we are leading the world in the dismantling of nuclear submarines. We have a staged approach to dismantling, which starts with the removal of low-level radioactive waste, then moves onto the removal of the nuclear reactor and finally into the recycling of the remaining vessel. No-one in the world has done this before and we offer the opportunity to join our ground-breaking team.

Day to day, you’ll be working within our team of Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste professionals as part of the Submarine Dismantling Project, providing input and guidance on day-to-day issues, input to projects and gaining hands-on experience on a unique project.

As a Assistant Health Physicist, you will support the following areas;
  • Demonstrating compliance with relevant radiation safety and radioactive waste regulations
  • Developing and implementing radiation protection / radioactive waste policies and procedures
  • Development and review of radiation protection systems and radioactive waste arrangements
  • Liaison with management and the workforce (including plant managers, designers and engineers) on matters of radiation safety and radioactive waste
  • Assessment of radiation risks in the workplace and providing advice on the design of plant, equipment and waste disposal to ensure safety
  • Advice on the safe transport of radioactive materials
  • Liaison with regulators and other bodies.

At Rosyth, we work a 37-hour week and do this on a hybrid basis, we would ideally be looking for someone to join us threee days per week onsite, and work the other two days from home. We are open to flexible working patterns.

Essential Experience of the Assistant Health Physicist:
  • Knowledge and experience of the regulations, codes, standards, licenses and permits relating to Radiation Protection.

Qualifications of the Assistant Health Physicist:
  • Degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline, ideally with post graduate qualifications in a Radiological Safety subject.
  • Hold, or be willing to gain an associate membership of the Society for Radiological Protection

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
  • 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

Babcock International

For over 130 years Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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