Senior Shielding Consultant
- Location:
-
UK
- Sector:
- Other
- Job Type:
- Permanent
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary
- Reference:
- SK/R/088289
Role
Job Title: Senior Shielding Consultant
Location: UK, Flexible Location + working from home options
Salary: Depending on experience
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Hybrid: 4 days home/ 1 day in office
Our Client is working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join them, you can play your part as a Senior Shielding Consultant at any of the nationwide hubs.
The role
As a Senior Shielding Consultant, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. The Senior Shielding Consultant will assume a technical lead role within engineering projects, where you will be performing shielding modelling and delivering associated calculations and reports to Our Client’s customers across Civil Nuclear and Defence.
Day to day, you'll develop and maintain excellent working relations with customers, colleagues, and Our Client’s other departments:
- Work within multi-disciplinary teams, where you will integrate yourself and ensure that consistent approaches are adopted, and timely support provided to all relevant project stakeholders.
- Authoring of shielding reports and related calculation notes, and verification of others' work.
- Supervising the work of junior technical specialists within the same discipline.
- Managing delivery of tasks undertaken within their agreed Delegation of Authority (DOA) against cost and programme to the satisfaction of Key Stakeholders.
- Ensuring effective management of the customer, including liaison and relationship development with existing and new customers, to aid the development of business, resolution of technical and delivery issues such that the customer is fully briefed and informed of progress.
The role is adaptable and can be based near one of our UK hubs, including Leicester, Warrington, Bristol etc. with a hybrid working arrangement of four days per week working from home and one day per week from the office, This will be dependent on business needs and/or the requirement to attend meetings onsite
Essential experience of the Senior Shielding Consultant:
- Excellent working knowledge of radiation transport codes, particularly Monte Carlo codes MCBEND and/or MCNP.
- Experience working on major projects in a shielding technical lead role.
Desirable Experience of the Senior Shielding Consultant
- Working knowledge of the SCALE suite of codes (particularly for fuel inventory and neutron activation analysis).
- Experience working with Point Kernel codes (RANKERN and/or Microshield).
Qualifications for the Senior Shielding Consultant:
- Degree in a relevant scientific or engineering technical discipline.
The 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 most 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.
Company information
At First Recruitment Group we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That is why our Recruitment Consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates.
We actively recruit at all levels and this is a superb opportunity for a Shielding Consultant looking for new employment.
As part of putting people first, we strive to be an equal opportunities employer and we are always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce, working closely with our clients to ensure everyone is included.
