Radiography Coordinator - Bridgwater, United Kingdom - Mactech Energy Group

Description

Radiography Coordinator 512CW

Hinkley Point C, Somerset

Up to £450 per day umbrella

Long-term Contract

Job Purpose/Overview:
The Radiography Coordinator ensures the smooth running of the onsite functioning of the Radiography Support Team's or third-party radiography resource. The requirements for radiography will be identified within the contractor's workscope by Engineering standards. Contractors shall justify and agree the NDT technique and amount of on-site NDT, then request Radiography through the Radiography Coordinator. The Radiography Coordinator will check the adequacy of planning and preparations and will de-clash the operation between Tier 1 Contractors considering the areas concerned, shift patterns and clearing of areas of personnel prior to radiography taking place in accordance with the HSE guidelines and Company Standards. They will ensure work is adequately planned, coordinated, prepared, and risks managed for the work to proceed safely, to time and quality by the Contractor.

The Radiography Coordinator will take an overview of radiography performance in delivering the Construction Plan for radiography across HPC site and have a broad understanding of all the radiography work being undertaken. Ensuring potential clashes are avoided and optimising the strategy so that all radiography is delivered safely and with the required quality. The Radiography Coordinator will run coordination meetings and minutes and interface with other construction meetings, anticipating future risk and issues and be proactive in managing them. They will also need to play a pro-active role in the broader HPC Delivery team.

Contextual Information:
The Radiography Coordinator will operate by undertaking a range of monitoring, coordination, planning, advice, guidance and support activities which focus on establishing, promoting, maintaining, and continually improving the HPC CDM Principal Contractor management arrangements for Radiography to attain construction excellence following the HPC Way.

The Radiography Coordinator will develop and maintain a 'one-team' working relationship with all key project stakeholders always providing clear communication to support surrounding departments and programme teams. They are responsible for working closely as a team with the Senior Radiography Coordinator and Radiography support section.

As part of a small team, the role will require regular out of hours attendance to take part in the site permit system and authorising, as well as observing work.

Principal Accountabilities:
The Radiography Coordinator shall be responsible for the delivery of radiography coordination via the interfaces between radiography service providers and installation contractors in a timely manner, taking into consideration any time/safety constraints or other requirements prior to radiography taking place. They shall drive current and future performance, ensure an open learning environment leads to continuous improvement and delivery to safety, quality, time and cost constraints.

The Radiography Coordinator shall manage the storage of radiographic film after interpretation or until delivered to storage as lifetime quality records, as well as developing NNB's strategy related to the digitisation of radiographs for key components.

The Radiographic Coordinator will be also champion non-radiological testing technologies as a means of ensuring ALARP in meeting nuclear safety requirements.

When new and innovative techniques are proposed, the Radiographic Coordinator will liaise with the Radiography Subject Matter Expert and NNB RPA body, to ensure that ALARP justifications have been produced by the contractors and approved by NNB prior to the specific work starting.

They must spend time on the construction site monitoring the safety of work activities and ensure work is delivered as planned, providing key input into Radiographers barrier plans. They must also be able to apply KPIs to monitor radiography performance issues, trends, and risks.

Dimensions:
The Radiography Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the high performance of the radiography preparations, planning and interface arrangements in the radiography support function. Out on the HPC Site, they will be able to identify risk and find solution with contractors to control without compromising safety.

They will work with the Health and Safety team and have wider links to the subject matter experts and inspectors required for ensuring technical compliance of the radiography, the contractors requiring radiography, the companies providing radiography, radiation protection supervisors etc. They will champion learning and the HPC way, working ad-hoc shifts to monitor that work is being carried out and to the standards and safe system of work expectations required.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop wide network and working relationships within EDF and the construction industry.

• Results focus tempered with team centred approach, with excellent planning, organisation and anticipation skills.

• Highly skilled in the analysis of technically demanding and detailed information and able to quickly identify the underlying issues and risks.

• Strong capacity to be future focused in identifying risks and implications. Strong communication skills to be able to put across complex concepts and data in a way that is readily understood and actionable, using a variety of media.

• Skilful in engaging others with technical issues and maintaining their interest and enthusiasm.

• Skilful in distilling knowledge and building skills in others and the capacity to be pragmatic and practical in the way that technical issues are addressed.

• Good knowledge of large organisational, process plant and site, operations with nuclear standards.

• Good knowledge of the radiography industry including an understanding of the different technologies available on the market including their benefits and limitations.

• Ability to strongly deliver and enthuse others to deliver in line with written standards.

• Excellent knowledge of national and international HSE standards.

• Excellent knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015/ IRR2017 and Nuclear Site Licence requirements.

• Proven track record of achieving excellent safety results on major engineering and construction projects.

Qualifications and Experience:

• PCN or equivalent ISO 9712/ASME level 2 radiographer, current preferred but lapsed qualifications accepted.

• Previously trained and appointed as Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS) minimum.

• Experience working on large construction/refit projects with significant levels of radiography.

• Good knowledge of other non-destructive testing techniques/standards, additional qualifications such as ultrasonics and/or surface inspection are an advantage.

• Knowledge and experience from working in the nuclear sector.

• Good knowledge of the IRR2017.

• Experience of working closely, supporting a team to achieve excellent delivery.