Senior or Principal Radioactive Waste Consultant - Bristol, United Kingdom - Hydrock

Hydrock

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We have a fantastic opportunity for a
Senior or Principal Radioactive Waste Consultant to join our growing
Nuclear Division team in our
Bristol office.

The Team - Our Nuclear Division

Our Nuclear Division is well established but still very much a growing team, supporting a wide range of key nuclear projects across the UK, from new build through to decommissioning.

We pride ourselves on being innovative and providing strategic and bespoke support to meet our clients' needs, and have worked hard to build strong and mutually beneficial relationships with these clients.

We recognise that the success of our business is underpinned and sustained by our people, and we always seek to ensure that we support, encourage and empower each member of our team to further build on what we have achieved.

We have a number of exciting projects, ongoing as well as future opportunities, with a wide range of high-profile nuclear clients.

This includes delivery of work through large, long-term frameworks as well as through smaller, bespoke work packages.

We are keen to welcome the right person into our team to support the successful delivery of this work and continued growth.

Responsibilities of the role:

Some of your primary responsibilities will include the following (not necessarily from the start):

Helping to manage and deliver nuclear safety packages of work, including overseeing and supporting our delivery teams;
Continuing to build and develop excellent client relationships; this is where we have excelled and our clients have all expressed their appreciation of our approach to relationship building;
Delivering highquality and bespoke technical and strategic support to our clients;
Supporting the continued development of our business, including through identifying, bidding for and winning new work, either with new or existing clients;
Mentoring and developing our graduates and other junior staff.

We know that every individual has different skills, strengths and preferences.

We focus on recruiting great people and provide them with opportunities to tailor the role to best fit their skills and experience.

Therefore, the bullets above are indicative but we avoid defining rigid roles.

You'll be set up for success if you have:

The work we deliver for our clients in support of radioactive waste management spans the entire waste management lifecycle, in which we provide bespoke strategic advice to ensure the UK's radioactive waste management inventory is managed safely.

This ranges from finding innovative solutions to manage a particular waste stream, to developing business cases which could change national policy and strategy.

The common focus being the ability to understand a problem and work out solutions to specific client needs.

Understanding of:_
UK regulatory and policy landscape for the management of radioactive waste, including recent developments in policy and strategy;
The UK Radioactive Waste Inventory, including different classifications and waste streams.
Knowledge of:_
The range of decommissioning strategies for reactor sites and other nuclear facilities;
Waste management processes across the entire lifecycle: characterisation, retrieval, processing, treatment, packaging, and disposal.
Experience of:_
Working with UK Site License Companies and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (including its subsidiaries).
Other skills and experience which we would consider beneficial to a consultancy role with us in:_
Experience of working with waste producers (e.g. Magnox, Sellafield, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd. (DSRL), and EDF Energy);
Experience working with Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) and its various work programmes;
Knowledge of international waste management and disposal practices;
Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams and with communication with other technical disciplines;
Interactions with nuclear regulators;
Experience, or good understanding of working within a consultancy environment.
In addition to knowledge and experience, we are looking for someone who can provide the following:_
Flexible, innovative and proactive approach to working and finding solutions;
Ability to work closely with clients to solve problems;
Desire to support growth of our radioactive waste management and decommissioning strategy capability.

What's great about Hydrock, now Stantec
We are a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK.

Our driving motivation is to be a 'Force for Good', as it is our aim to improve the quality of people's lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.

From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and socie