Environmental Specialist

2 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom AWE Full time

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

AWE has exciting opportunities for an Environmental Specialist to join our Radiochemistry Group, bringing their experience to AWE and to successfully play a key role delivering for our customers.

Environmental Specialist

Location: Reading / Basingstoke Area

**Salary**: £33,300 - £49,950 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

- Generous holiday entitlement 270 hours a year (inclusive of Bank Holidays) plus every other Friday off
- Flexible working hours
- Potential opportunities to travel with work for conferences and collaboration (optional)
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
- Market leading contributory pension scheme
- AWE Life Insurance
- Salary sacrifice benefits scheme

The main responsibilities for the role are:

- Supporting scheduling of monitoring and the production of quarterly and compliance reports to be distributed to the Environment Agency
- Processing, interpreting, and reporting measurement test data of required quality standard to specified timescales
- Satisfying all legislative, regulatory and stakeholder requirements
- Supporting sampling surveys, to include sample collection and in field measurements using a range of instrumentation
- Assisting in programme reviews, development, innovations, and implementation
- Supporting co-ordinations for the waste characterisation programme, e.g. planning and scheduling programme elements, and managing tasking (customer agreements) for assessment surveys, monitoring, and analytical requirement for radiological and chemical measurements
- Degree (or equivalent) relating to environmental science or similar
- Understanding of radiological and chemical measurement
- Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills to liaise with other team members, customers and other stakeholders
- Ability to handle and interpret data
- Ability to organise and schedule work
- Good IT skills essential
- A level of literacy and numeracy to enable completion of regulatory reports
- Be able to work on their own and with others to achieve specific deliverables to specified timescales
- Basic laboratory experience (not essential)
- Knowledge of safety paperwork including COSHH, risk and manual handling assessments

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