Radiation Safety Officer

Radiation Safety Officer

Remote – Philadelphia, PA

Terra Power is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, Terra Power originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world.

They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. Terra Power's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

The Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) is accountable for the local radiation safety program and applicable radioactive material license(s). The RSO will lead the local radiation safety program including supervising and mentoring staff and direct reports. The RSO is expected to have experience with interpreting regulations, licensing, and communicating with regulators. The RSO is expected to have a strong foundation of health physicist work, have excellent communication skills, and be self-directed and highly independent requiring minimal supervision.

The RSO will be expected to communicate internally and externally with various organizations including regulators.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as the RSO on a Radioactive Materials License(s) responsible for all compliance under the radiation safety program.
• Responsible for managing, executing, documenting, and communicating results for work of broad scope under the radiation safety program.
• Develop and implement radiation safety programs and policies.
• Supervise, lead, and mentor staff and direct reports, including Health Physicists and Health Physicist Technicians.
• Generate and submit to regulators licensing and permitting applications and amendments.
• Provide guidance, regulatory instruction, and support to complete Terra Power objectives with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage resources, schedules, and programs to ensure radiation safety program readiness for facility operational support.
• Manage and communicate the budget needs for the radiation safety program.
• Ensure Terra Power radiation activities are compliant with Terra Power policies, licensing and regulations.
• Provide & direct operational radiation safety support and serve as point of contact for Terra Power radiation workers.
• Generate, follow, review, and update procedures.
• Responsible for reporting to TP Committees and regulators.
• Direct response to decontamination, off-normals, and emergencies within the radiation safety program.
• Lead investigations of accidents involving radioactive material and/or radiological work.
• Generate and oversee Radiation Work Permits for non-routine tasks.
• Effectively communicate radiation protection requirements to personnel.
• Establish and enforce requirements for ALARA.
• Routinely observe, audit, and inspect portions of the radiation safety program.
• Ability to apply principles, practices, and techniques of health physics.
• Compile, analyze (qualitative and quantitative), and summarize data for internal and external review.
• Review, survey, and complete shipments of Class 7 Radioactive Material including receipt inspections.
• Generate and maintain required radiological operating documents.
• Perform contamination and exposure rate surveys.
• Perform routine inspections of laboratory and radiological conditions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Key

Qualifications and Skills:

• B.S. degree in Radiation Protection, Radiological/Health Science, Health Physics, or a related technical discipline with 5 years' experience,
  • Or M.S. degree in Radiation Protection,…