Decommissioning Consultant - UK Wide

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Are you ready to join a team that’s at the forefront of decommissioning innovation? Our Decommissioning Projects team is a powerhouse of consultancy, engineering, and project management, tackling some of the most challenging and rewarding decommissioning projects across the globe. We partner with many international collaborators to bring solutions to some of the most high-profile nuclear challenges in Japan, Australia, Central and Eastern Europe and the UK. In the UK our clients include the civil nuclear and defence sectors, private partners and academic institutions. Our long-standing partnerships and diverse project portfolio ensure a dynamic and varied working environment.

We are a flexible global team therefore open to location that suits the right candidate, however we have offices in Birchwood, Warrington, Harwell, Oxfordshire or Scrabster, Caithness too along with many other locations.

We’re on the hunt for Engineers/Consultants who thrive on collaboration to deliver cutting-edge technical consultancy for complex decommissioning projects. If you have a passion for decommissioning, whether it be legacy nuclear facilities or others, reactor segmentation and support systems, and excel in strategy, planning, and implementation, this role is for you.

Your expertise in lifetime planning, engineering, radiological, regulatory, and project requirements will be crucial to the projects the team work on. The project responsibilities will be varied and challenging throughout the project lifecycle, including definition of technical aspects in bidding strategies, through design to implementation of projects at site.

• Degree qualified or equivalent (eg HNC/HND with significant experience) in suitable discipline
• Decommissioning specific experience
• Self-starter with a professional leadership approach and a technical background
• Proven experience of team working and stand alone consultant roles
• Good communication skills and ability to articulate information
• Ability to interface and liaise with key client and internal stakeholders

We are always open to a diverse range of experience, if you have a desire to be curious, have a continuous improvement mindset and want to work on high impact projects within the nuclear sector please apply.

Our Culture:

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we genuinely believe that we all succeed by supporting one another through our culture of caring. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centered on inclusion and diversity.

We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility, please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.