Team Leader - Nuclear Environmental Strategy

At Amentum, we're not just solving problems; we're engineering the future. Our team is driven by an unyielding commitment to innovation, integrity, and collaboration, tackling some of the most significant challenges in science, security, and sustainability. If you're passionate about making a real impact and want to be part of a community that values ethical excellence, this is the place where your ambition can thrive.

Here, we believe that success comes from continuously pushing boundaries and working together to deliver on our promises. We embrace challenges with confidence and are dedicated to creating a secure and vibrant future for all.

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

We are currently recruiting for a Team Leader to join our Environment business. Due to the rapid growth of our business in the civil nuclear and environment sector, we require more support to deliver and continue to expand our expertise.

We have a leading role in nuclear environmental strategy underpinning the future site strategy, management of environmental assessments, and end-state decision making. In the UK, we deliver a diverse range of projects for waste producers, waste management organisations and strategic authorities across all aspects of the waste lifecycle. We are delivering similarly interesting and exciting projects across the globe including projects for clients in Norway, Central & Eastern Europe and Japan.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated candidate as a technical team leader. The candidate will be expected to grow the business in these areas and further develop their team accordingly, as well as conducting technical work within their own specialism. You will join a friendly, highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary group. The vacancy provides an excellent opportunity for those wishing to develop their careers in our technically and commercially challenging business.

We are operating under flexible working arrangements, with a mixture of office-based and home working environments.

The role can be based at Harwell, Cumbria, Scrabster or Birchwood and other locations will be considered.

The role includes two key aspects – technical delivery in your specialist topic area and leadership of a team of related disciplines.

The technical delivery aspects of the role include:

• Environmental underpinning activities to satisfy regulatory compliance (e.g. environmental permitting, GRR, environmental management systems).

• Developing documentation for new build GDA Environmental Submissions (demonstrating how environmental regulations and Radioactive Substances Regulation are addressed).

• Contributing to Environmental Impact Assessments and/or consideration of conventional impacts from waste management activities.

• Undertaking dispersion assessments for various media (air, water, soil).

• Undertaking sustainability assessments.

• Support to site-end state development and land quality projects, including data gathering/analysis; options assessments; technical justification.

• Lead the delivery of high-quality competitive proposals to our clients and build client relationships.

• Stakeholder engagement.

• Production of concise and well-written technical reports and presentation of results to clients.

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