Waste Services Technician

Overview of Responsibilities

The salary for this role is £31,100. Onsite working is expected for 5 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working. This role is based at the following site; Culham, Oxfordshire. This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Waste Services Technician, you will play a pivotal role in delivering packages of work across Waste Services Group Facilities and Projects, including the supervision of operational teams ensuring work is carried out in a safe manner whilst meeting appropriate standards.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure that your behaviour promotes the safety, health and welfare of yourself and your colleagues.
• Actively promote the UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Supervise operations within Waste Services Group Facilities ensuring appropriate standards are maintained through the monitoring of work within assigned facilities and through carrying out pre-work, start-up, shut-down and post-work inspections of plant and facilities.
• Ensure the Operators understand their assigned tasks through effective communication, carrying out pre-work briefing sessions and training in local work procedure.
• Produce written Safe Systems of Work (Risk Assessments, Working Instructions, method Statements etc.) in accordance with current UK legislation and the UKAEA policies. Ensure that this is effectively communicated to Contracted Operators prior to work commencing.
• Support the Contracted Operatives provider in the recruitment and induction of Operatives.
• Support the Operational Team Leader in carrying out wider Waste Services Group initiatives and activities across site.
• Work in accordance with the UKAEA best practices and quality standards within the team, division and across the organisation.
• Work in accordance with the UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Demonstratable experience supervising teams of operatives in assigned tasks (good attention to detail).
• Good understanding of safety management principles.
• Demonstrably competent in the Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Word, and Excel.
• Able to wear Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE), including Tornado Hoods and Pressurised Suits.
• Proactive 'can-do' attitude / self-starter.

Desirable:

• Level 2 NVQ in Nuclear Decommissioning or similar.
• Registered Beryllium worker and Non-Classified Radiation worker (Scheme of Work).
• An IOSH Managing Safely certificate or an equivalent recognised occupational Health and Safety qualification.
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry.
• Experience with maintaining Respiratory Protective Equipment.
• Experience in training delivery.

We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.