Pilot Plant Supervisor

3 weeks ago


Preston, United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory Full time

Salary
- Salary Starting at £41,991
- Job Reference
- NNL/TP/21001/1850
- Contract Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Closing Date
- 17 July, 2023
- Job Category
- Waste Management and Decommissioning
- Location
- Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Posted on
- 26 June, 2023

**Job Introduction**:
NNL is where you’ll experiment to help solve global challenges. As part of our Waste Management & Decommissioning capability, your work will impact the lives of generations. By finding new ways to avoid, reduce, store and treat nuclear waste, and drive down the cost of decommissioning, you’ll help to deliver cleaner energy and influence our nation’s energy future. You’ll face new challenges every day, working in unique locations on ground-breaking projects. Whichever area you specialise in this is a place to do great science for a good cause.

This role is required to provide technical and operations support to NNL’s Waste & Residue Processing team based at the Preston Laboratory. The team have an established capability in developing and implementing bespoke processing solutions for a wide variety of uranic residues from both UK and overseas customers. We operate a unique facility, working across a flexible processing plant and several wet chemistry laboratories, utilising a wide range of processes and techniques.

**Role Responsibility**:
Main Responsibilities for Pilot Plant Supervisor:
These accountabilities reflect the full Plant Supervisor role. A training period of several years will be provided in order to build up the required experience to perform these duties in full.
- Train to a high level of competence in all plant operations
- Provide training to operators in plant operations
- Become competent in a range of laboratory techniques directly supporting plant operations
- Act in the capacity of Task Supervisor for the Processing Plant and associated areas, including management and supervision of day-to-day operations
- Effectively line manage a team of plant operators
- Support effective planning and scheduling of operations and enabling activities as a member of the Plant Management Team
- Carry out enabling activities for plant operations, including the production of safety paperwork, procurement of chemicals, equipment and consumables, arranging radiological monitoring, submitting engineering requests and co-ordinating waste disposal
- Ensure accurate records are maintained for the plant chemical inventory
- Manage the plant housekeeping process and ensure timely action completion
- Facilitate safe delivery of work and provide additional technical capacity within the team by undergoing training to achieve various safety appointments;
- Task Supervisor
- Criticality Control Officer
- Radiological Protection Supervisor (RPS)
- Despatching Officer
- Liaise effectively with a range of internal contacts including compliance, procurement, laboratory, technical and craft teams as required to support plant operations
- Actively contribute to improvement initiatives and projects

Essential Criteria for Pilot Plant Supervisor:

- Operations experience, preferably in a plant environment, or within a laboratory environment
- Willingness and aptitude to undertake training and become appointed to safety-responsible roles
- Demonstrable positive attitude towards achieving high levels of safety and quality
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships with a range of personnel at all levels
- Willingness and aptitude to develop into a line management role, with the ability to motivate others
- Demonstrable commitment to continued professional development
- Adaptability and responsiveness to manage a varied workload where priorities can change on a regular basis according to plant condition
- Highly competent in Microsoft IT programmes
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work in a radioactive area
- Ability to view UK eyes only information

Desirable Criteria for Pilot Plant Supervisor:

- Experience of supervising or managing a team
- Experience of operating on a nuclear or highly regulated site

**About the Company**:
NNL is an incredible place to work A place where people do things that have never been done before A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business, and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impactyou can do it all here.

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace



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