Senior Radioactive Waste Management Consultant

6 months 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 a Senior Radioactive Waste Management Consultant to join our Team You will focus on the development and assessment of radioactive waste inventories and characterisation data to support waste management strategies.

Jacobs is committed to the continuing professional development of our staff. You will have excellent opportunities to drive your own progression in areas of technical, management and business development capabilities whilst broadening the wider interests of our company.

**Key Responsibilities**:
You will work on a range of consultancy projects for customers including radioactive waste producers, radioactive waste management organisations and regulators, both in the UK and overseas. Work includes a wide variety of activities across the areas of integrated radioactive waste management, spent fuels and nuclear materials and site investigation/land quality including:

- Analysing problems and developing solutions.
- The development of radioactive waste management strategies including consideration of the most appropriate method for treatment and/or disposal; and high-level strategic studies to support and underpin decision-making at different stages of the radioactive waste lifecycle.
- Assessment of different options using recognised approaches such as BAT and BPEO.
- Reviewing and assimilating numerical data/information including characterisation data and radionuclide inventories.
- Consideration of approaches for radioactive waste conditioning and packaging.
- Production of high-quality technical reports on the outcome of your work.
- Interactions with and presentation of results to customers and stakeholder engagement activities (including facilitation).
- Business development activities.
- Delivering work to agreed timescales and cost.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- Degree in a physical science or engineering discipline OR equivalent training/experience
- Experience in radioactive waste management.
- Good technical writing skills.
- Flexible, innovative and keen to develop skills.
- Adaptable, able to work on a number of varied projects at the same time, prioritising as appropriate.
- Able to work in multi-disciplinary teams.

**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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