Radiological Waste Administrator

AWE are currently recruiting for a Radiological Waste Administrator.

Location - Reading / Basingstoke area

Package - £27,360 - £36,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

Closing Date
: 11th March 2024

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution).
• Life Assurance.
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family.
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site.

This role will be to manage the sentencing and recording of RA solid and non-aqueous RA Waste on behalf of AWE and ensure compliance with third party Waste Acceptance Criteria.

• Identify and assess any assay necessary to be undertaken to support RA waste sentencing.
• Identifying new effective and efficient disposal opportunities for AWE RA waste materials, where appropriate.
• Support the RA Waste Route Owner in optimising waste management services in line with regulatory and business requirements.
• Governance of the creation, maintenance and secure storage of lifetime records associated with Radioactive Waste.
• Identify waste suitability for external consignment via the LLWR/MOD framework contract.
• Co-ordinate the construction of consignments within the Solid Radioactive Waste Management Record System database.
• Generate accurate waste consignment paperwork and review appropriate approvals from receiving sites prior to transporting RA Waste.
• Generate and ensure waste and consignment containers are acceptable to destination site.
• Ensure AWE remains within its Permits, Authorisations and allocations.

• A good standard of basic education
• Strong mathematical skills
• Working knowledge of RA Waste Operations
• Working knowledge of Nuclear Material transfers