Environmental Safety Technician

Are you looking for a opportunity to join the nuclear industry, interested in the prospects it has to offer? Do you have an interest in physics and the importance of safety in a unique environment like a Nuclear Power Station? If yes, we currently have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as our next Environmental Safety Technician at our Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station.

The Opportunity

As a Environmental Safety Technician you will need to utilise your skills of being well-motivated, engaging, and enthusiastic to help drive these behaviours within the Environmental Safety Group. It’s a varied role, working with your team and on independent projects.  Reporting into our Environmental Safety Team Leader, you will hold a key role ensuring high standards of Radiological Protection are maintained at our station. 

Do you have good communication skills, motivation, and drive? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Pay, Benefits and Culture

We’re offering a salary of £32,659 - £37,169 and you’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Nuclear Generation Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience, and qualifications.

We have a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.  

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated. 

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments. 

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be required to become a classified person under the Ionising Radiation Regulations and therefore must be 18 years or above.

Following your training and authorisation into the role, you’ll have a wide variety of responsibilities, including: 

• Carrying out activities to support regulatory compliance primarily with the Ionising Radiations Regulations and Environmental Permitting Regulations.
• Measuring levels of radiation, recording results, and reporting as necessary
• Carry out routine radiation and contamination surveys.
• Assisting colleagues at boundaries of contamination-controlled areas, checking that protective clothing, such as breathing apparatus, are in good order, worn correctly and safely monitored.
• Issuing and collecting personnel dosimetry, assisting in the management of the electronic personnel dosimetry system, and maintaining records.
• Setting up, calibrating, and commissioning radiological measuring equipment, checking all instruments and apparatus are in good order and reporting defects.
• Assisting in processing active waste.
• Decontaminating small items of plant.
• Carrying out environmental sample collection and analysis in line with the district survey program, including limited radiochemical work to comply with effluent discharge authorisations.
• You will be required to participate in the nuclear emergency scheme and will receive suitable remuneration for this.

Who you are….

As a minimum as well, you will be qualified to GCSE level or higher within relevant fields including mathematics and English. Additional qualifications supporting knowledge in a role like this would be desirable. Previous experience of working within a Radiological Protection environment along with a strong understanding of radiation safety practice in the nuclear field would be desirable.

We’re looking for you to have a can-do attitude towards work and a commitment to drive a high-level standard to all work you will do.

If you feel like this is the role for you, please follow the application process and a member of the recruitment team will be in touch with you once the advertising has closed. 

Closing date for applications: Sunday, 29th September 2024

Interviews to be held week commencing

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