Radiation Shielding Consultant

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead the future of nuclear safety and shape a safer world. 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 Radiation Shielding Consultant at one of our key sites: Warrington (Cheshire), Leicester (Leicestershire), Newbury (Berkshire), or Bristol.

The role:

• As a Principal Shielding Consultant, you’ll influence the design and performance of cutting‑edge facilities, mentor the next generation of specialists, and shape best practice across the shielding discipline.
• This role will also help accelerate your own development, giving you access to high‑impact projects and opportunities to broaden your leadership capabilities.
• Day-to-day, you’ll play a key role in developing, verifying and delivering high‑quality shielding strategies for some of the UK’s most nationally significant nuclear and defence programmes.
• This is an opportunity to apply deep technical expertise to complex engineering challenges that keep people, infrastructure and the environment safe.
• Prepare high‑quality shielding reports, calculations and technical documentation.
• Verify complex technical outputs produced by other specialists.
• Mentor and support junior shielding engineers, helping develop capability across the discipline.
• Collaborate within multi‑disciplinary teams to identify challenges and deliver consistent, best‑practice shielding solutions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by shaping shielding processes, methodologies and standards.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, adaptable and can be delivered from various locations, and provides hybrid working arrangements with two days in the office per week at one of our key sites: Warrington (Cheshire), Leicester (Leicestershire), Newbury (Berkshire), or Bristol.

Essential experience of the Principal Shielding Consultant:

• Significant experience in radiation shielding, including radiation transport codes and shielding methodology.
• Proven track record delivering shielding solutions on complex engineering or nuclear projects.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, guiding teams and supporting technical development.
• Strong collaboration skills working across engineering, scientific or project-led disciplines.
• Experience of developing shielding strategies from concept through to implementation.

Qualifications for the Principal Shielding Consultant:

• Degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline.
• Additional technical qualifications in nuclear engineering, radiation protection or related specialisms - Desirable.
• Chartered status or working towards it - Desirable.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 UK Cavendish 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.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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