Radioactive Waste Engineer

Babcock International; Stoke Gifford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Radioactive Waste Engineer to enhance national security and environmental protection. This full-time role involves overseeing waste engineers, ensuring compliance with UK nuclear legislation, and delivering technical support. Candidates should have a relevant degree along with extensive radioactive waste management qualifications. The position offers hybrid working arrangements, excellent development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package including generous holiday allowance and pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading option

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Extensive radioactive waste management qualifications and/or experience.
• Ability to determine and apply Best Available Techniques (BAT) with robust justification.

Responsibilities

• Supporting management and mentoring waste engineers within the team.
• Providing customer and project-facing technical support and advice.
• Producing governance documents and technical reports.
• Ensuring compliance with UK nuclear industry legislation.
• Driving continuous improvement in waste management processes.

Skills

Technical writing skills

Communication skills

High levels of numeracy

IT proficiency

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Job description

As a Senior Radioactive Waste Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary where your expertise will directly contribute to national security and environmental protection, while accelerating your career in a dynamic and highly regulated industry. Day-to-day, you'll be part of a specialist team focused on site-wide waste governance, technical support and project integration. You'll oversee waste engineers, provide expert advice, and deliver solutions that ensure compliance with environmental legislation and nuclear safety standards.

This role is full-time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day in the office/onsite and 4 days working from home.

Responsibilities

• Supporting management and mentoring waste engineers within the team.
• Providing customer and project-facing technical support and advice.
• Producing governance documents and technical reports to underpin waste strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with UK nuclear industry legislation and best practice.
• Driving continuous improvement in waste characterisation, processing, and transport.
• Applied understanding of radioactive waste management, including characterisation, processing, sentencing, packaging and transport.
• Extensive knowledge of environmental legislation in the UK nuclear industry.
• Ability to determine and apply Best Available Techniques (BAT) with robust justification.
• High levels of numeracy and IT proficiency, including data interpretation and spreadsheet development.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills for diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant subject.
• Extensive radioactive waste management qualifications and/or experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

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 Babcock 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.

About Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.