Nuclear Regulator (Radiological Monitoring and Assessment)

Nuclear Regulator (Radiological Monitoring and Assessment)

City/Town: Penrith, Preston, Wallingford

Job description

Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone?

Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.

At the Environment Agency, we are responsible for regulating the disposal of radioactive waste across the nuclear industry in England. Our Radiological Monitoring and Assessment specialists manage Radiological Monitoring contracts to provide measurements of radioactive discharges from nuclear facilities and levels in the environment. We assess the impacts of past and future discharges and disposals of radioactive waste on people and wildlife. We provide technical advice and guidance, in these areas, to our regulators. We ensure the public are informed of levels of radioactivity in the environment and any potential impacts, by commissioning habits surveys and publishing an annual report.

In collaboration with stakeholders and experts in the field, we use the latest scientific information to develop guidance and systems for monitoring discharges, modelling radioactivity in the environment and producing tools for assessing the potential impact on people and the environment.

We are seeking to recruit someone with experience of Radiological Monitoring and / or assessment. You could be from the nuclear industry or scientific community. Enthusiasm in environmental radiological protection is essential. You’ll also need to be willing to play your part in responding to incidents both within the nuclear field and across other functions of our organisation.

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and workplace adjustments will be available.

The team

You’ll be part of our Reactor Assessment and Radiological Monitoring team, which supports our Nuclear Regulation Group to deliver:

• Site regulation – Ensuring radioactive discharges in the environment can be accurately measured and potential impacts assessed.
• Waste and Decommissioning – Providing monitoring to assure waste characterisation, consignment and Assessment
• Nuclear new build – An opportunity to ensure that the impact of new nuclear power stations is minimised.

Experience/skills required

• Experience of undertaking radiological assessments for future (prospective) and past (retrospective) impacts of radioactive discharge for humans and non-human species.
• Ability to manage contracts, acting as an intelligent customer, ensuring technical and commercial requirements are met and quality reports delivered to time.
• Ability to evaluate, compare, contextualise and interpret monitoring results.
• Ability to provide expert input or collaboration on Radiological Monitoring and Assessment to practitioner groups and at national/international meetings.
• Ability to assess technical information relating to radioactive waste, associated environment protection equipment and discharges from nuclear sites.
• Ability to react flexibly to evolving situations and incidents.
• Technically competent at data management and manipulation.
• Experience of communicating technical topics to a non-technical audience.
• Experience of technical writing and presenting.

Contact and additional information

We would love to inspire you to apply – please get in touch with Tim Fediw by email at tim.fediw@environment-agency.gov.uk.

We expect interviews to take place 05-07 March 2024 in Birmingham.

This role is office based but involves visiting sites or locations, and therefore a full UK driving licence is required.

All Environment Agency staff receive training to support our response to major incidents.

Closing Date: 4 February 2024