Radiological Waste Administrator

AWE are currently recruiting for a Radiological Waste Administrator.

**Location**:

- Reading / Basingstoke area

**Package** - £26,450 - £35,000 (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:

- Market leading contributory pension scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement **270 hours a year (inclusive of Bank Holidays) plus every other Friday off**
- Flexible working hours
- Salary sacrifice scheme

This role will be to manage the sentencing and recording of RA solid and non-aqueous RA Waste on behalf of AWE and ensure compliance with third party Waste Acceptance Criteria.

You will be required to:

- Identify and assess any assay necessary to be undertaken to support RA waste sentencing.
- Identifying new effective and efficient disposal opportunities for AWE RA waste materials, where appropriate.
- Support the RA Waste Route Owner in optimising waste management services in line with regulatory and business requirements.
- Governance of the creation, maintenance and secure storage of lifetime records associated with Radioactive Waste.
- Identify waste suitability for external consignment via the LLWR/MOD framework contract.
- Co-ordinate the construction of consignments within the Solid Radioactive Waste Management Record System database
- Generate accurate waste consignment paperwork and review appropriate approvals from receiving sites prior to transporting RA Waste.
- Generate and ensure waste and consignment containers are acceptable to destination site.
- Ensure AWE remains within its Permits, Authorisations and allocations.

To be successful in this role you should have the following skills:

- A good standard of basic education
- Strong mathematical skills
- Working knowledge of RA Waste Operations
- Working knowledge of Nuclear Material transfers