Radioactive Waste Management Strategy Team Leader

3 days ago

Didcot, United Kingdom Jacobs Full time

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers 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 Jacobs’ 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 Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**

We are recruiting for an Radioactive Waste Management Strategy Team Leader to join our established Radioactive Waste Management Consultancy business. The role will be based at our Harwell Office however other locations will be willingly considered.

You will work on a diverse range of projects for waste producers, waste management organisations and strategic authorities in the UK and overseas.

Jacobs has a leading role in waste strategy, inventory and compliance underpinning the future management of radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuels and nuclear materials in the UK and overseas, working for key clients across the nuclear industry.

There are significant expectations over the next coming years concerning the decommissioning of existing nuclear plant/sites as well as the development of facilities for storage, deep geological or near surface disposal of wastes, as well as continuing support to ongoing operations. This role, within an expanding team, will support our existing business and continued strategic positioning in the radioactive waste management and disposal sectors.
We are operating under flexible working arrangements, with a mixture of office-based and home working environments.

**Key responsibilities**:
You will be responsible for winning and delivering a diverse range of desk-based consultancy projects undertaken for our clients.
- Technical leadership in a range of areas - this is likely to include:

- optioneering (BAT/BPM/BPEO)
- waste planning (waste management plans/cases, waste routing, feasibility)
- stakeholder engagement
- best practice studies
- provision of strategy input to Jacobs’ waste retrievals and decommissioning projects
- Responsibilities for management of frameworks and/or project portfolios
- Project profitability and team utilisation targets
- Production of concise and well-written technical reports and presentation of results to clients
- Developing an understanding of the underlying requirements of our clients, and how we can meet those requirements
- Bidding for and winning work, including developing business development strategies

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- A degree in a physical science, chemistry or engineering discipline OR equivalent training/experience
- Experience in a comparable consultancy or strategic waste management focussed role
- Ability to manage time and priorities while working on several varied projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including tailoring outputs to the requirements of different stakeholders
- Existing experience leading a multi-disciplinary team
- Formal project management qualifications
- Knowledge of the decommissioning and radioactive waste management sector

**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 truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

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 centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s -find out more about our employee networks here.

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