Senior Nuclear Materials Consultant

8 months ago

Didcot, United Kingdom Jacobs Full time

**Your Impact**: About the Opportunity**

You will work on a range of desk-based consultancy projects for customers including owners of radioactive wastes and nuclear materials, both in the UK and overseas. Our established client portfolio includes the NDA, NWS and Sellafield Ltd.

The work includes a variety of desk-based activities across the areas of nuclear materials, actinides, HHGW and, more broadly, integrated radioactive waste management, including:

- Deploying desk-based and analytical capabilities to assess, rationalise and document solutions for a variety of chemistry, physics, and/or materials science problems. These problems will be in the field of nuclear materials, actinide and HHGW management & disposal. Work will include the definition, design, procurement & leading of R&D programmes and the subsequent data analysis & interpretation.
- Supporting radioactive waste management organisations to assess disposability cases and/or supporting the development of requirements, disposal concepts, specifications and safety cases, with a focus on challenges related to physics, chemistry and/or material science of nuclear materials.
- Leading the production of high-quality technical reports, either as main author or coordinating other technical resources.
- Reviewing and assimilating data/information and technical reports produced by other members of the team.
- Leading successful interactions with customers, including presentation of key results and their interpretation in the context of client needs.
- Leading business development activities (including competitive bidding) in relevant technical areas.
- Undertaking project management and project control activities and/or overseeing larger projects with dedicated professional project management support.
- Taking ownership of agreed work areas, and delivering work to agreed timescales, quality and cost.
- Mentoring and supporting junior staff development.

Jacobs is committed to the continuing professional development of our staff. You will have excellent opportunities to progress by furthering your technical, project management, and commercial capabilities and broadening your experience within the wider interests of our company.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**: Here’s what you’ll need**:

- A degree in a relevant physical science or engineering discipline OR equivalent training/experience.
- Actively pursuing (or already hold) relevant chartership.
- Relevant professional experience demonstrating technical/scientific/engineering skills for a variety of technical challenges across different material, chemical, physical science and/or engineering problems.
- Outstanding desk-based analytical skills with focus on engineering, materials science, chemistry, or physics, ideally in the field of nuclear materials and actinide or HHGW management & disposal.
- Strong and demonstrated track record of professional experience in deploying technical/scientific/engineering skills for a variety of technical challenges across different material, chemical, physical science and/or engineering problems.
- Numerate with excellent technical writing skills, demonstrated by publication of technical work in industry reports and/or scientific literature.
- Flexible, innovative, and keen to own and develop the client portfolio, including demonstration of significant commercial skills.
- Adaptable, able to work on a number of varied projects at the same time, prioritising as appropriate.
- Able to work within multi-disciplinary teams and lead where necessary.
- Well-developed scientific skills with demonstrated experience or a PhD in Materials Science, Chemistry, Applied Physics, or Engineering OR equivalent qualification.
- Experience of desk-based studies on nuclear materials would be highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience or understanding of nuclear materials, actinide or HHGW management & disposal would be desirable.
- An understanding of UK (NDA and NWS) disposal programs would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of the wider nuclear industry, either UK or international, would be beneficial.

If you are looking for a new challenge and are passionate about developing yourself then we want to meet you.

**Our Culture**

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