Principal Radiation Protection Consultant

Babcock International; Carlisle; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK seeks a Principal Radiation Protection Consultant to provide technical expertise in a major defence program. The successful candidate will engage with multidisciplinary teams and ensure radiological safety compliance. This role involves hybrid working arrangements and is open to applicants who are RPA2000 certified. Exceptional development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package are offered, including holiday trading and access to a Digital GP.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Professional fees payment

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Essential experience in a radiation protection role.
• Clear ability to lead a technical team.
• Desirable experience in interfacing with technical disciplines.
• Desirable experience in designing new processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on radiological safety and compliance.
• Engage with teams to ensure processes are ALARP.
• Co-ordinate production of radiological protection documentation.
• Contribute to project scheduling and resourcing.

Skills

Proven experience in radiation protection

Ability to lead a technical team

Interfacing with Safety Case personnel

Designing new processes and facilities

Education

RPA2000 Certified Radiation Protection Adviser

Job description

Job Title: Principal Radiation Protection Consultant

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Up to £81,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65687

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Radiation Protection Consultant at any of our Cavendish Nuclear sites, including: Warrington (Cheshire), Leicester (Leicestershire), Newbury (Berkshire), or Bristol.

The Role

As a Principal Radiation Protection Consultant, you’ll be a Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) with a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will join a friendly and committed team of radiation protection specialists, and drive technical solutions for a major defence programme whilst interfacing with a range of disciplines and stakeholders. You will be joining our team at a time of growth, allowing you to make your mark and build networks across the business and externally, supporting your career progression and personal development.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll act as a technical expert for Radiation Protection on a major defence project, spending some time at client sites. You may be responsible for leading the technical delivery of other Radiation Protection personnel.

Your role will include:

• Providing competent guidance and advice on radiological safety to ensure legislativeणे compliance and adoption of industry best practice.
• Engaging with multi‑discipline teams to ensure that the design and operation of processes and plant is demonstrably ALARP.
• Ensuring that procedures are correctly applied to technical activities.
• Co‑ordinating the production of radiological protection documentation such as Normal Operational Dose Uptake Assessments, Radiological Zoning, Radiological Risk Assessments, ALARP Assessments, Operating Instructions and compliance statements.
• Contributing to project scheduling, including definition of relevant deliverables, identification of dependencies and estimating resourcing, time, and cost requirements.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home. This role can be based at any of the Cavendish Nuclear sites, some of them include Warrington (Cheshire), Leicester (Leicestershire), Newbury (Berkshire), or Bristol.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, adipting the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part‑time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Experience of the Principal Radiation Protection Consultant

• Proven experience in a radiation protection role is essential.
• Clear ability to lead a technical team is essential.
• Experience interfacing with Safety Case personnel and other technical disciplines is desirable.
• Experience designing new processes and facilities is desirable.

Qualifications for the Principal Radiation Protection Consultant

• RPA2000 Certified Radiation Protection Adviser is essential.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK Contemporary.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost‑effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 10/02/2026