Senior Facilities Technician Waste Services Group

UK Atomic Energy Authority; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Annual leave

Bonus potential

Flexible working

Site closure days

Specialist allowance

Job summary

UK Atomic Energy Authority seeks a Senior Facilities Technician to maintain and improve Waste Services facilities supporting fusion research. You’ll apply engineering know-how to maintenance, projects, and waste processing, ensuring safety and compliance.

The role is onsite five days a week, with a strong emphasis on risk assessments, procedures, and collaboration with contractors. You will contribute to evolving capabilities within Waste Services and broader fusion energy work.

Qualifications

• Experience in a radioactive environment, including contamination control and related processes.
• Experience preparing and working to safe systems of work, including risk assessments and method statements.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, schematics and technical documentation; familiar with asset management systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safe, efficient operation of Waste Services facilities, plant, equipment and infrastructure.
• Diagnose equipment and facility issues, monitor performance and support maintenance activities.
• Coordinate contractor activities, prepare work packages and oversee delivery to meet safety and technical specs.
• Plan and track maintenance activities, maintain maintenance records and lead reviews.
• Support engineers with projects, planned maintenance, corrective work and new equipment introduction.
• Contribute to design, construction, installation and commissioning of waste processing equipment.
• Prepare technical documentation, risk assessments, method statements and reports.

Skills

Radioactive environment experience

Safe systems of work

Engineering drawings interpretation

CMMS

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Education

HNC in Engineering or equivalent qualification

IOSH Managing Safely certification

Tools

CMMS

Job description

• Full-time
• Salary: £43,702 (inclusive of Specialist Allowance) + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
• Position Grade: Grade E
• Department: Tritium Fuel Cycle - Facility Ops

Job Description

About us

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our worldbadly needs. UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industryand research organisations to achieveground-breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the gridby developing the power stations of tomorrow and the skilled workforce to deliver them.

About the job

As a Senior Facilities Technician within UKAEA’s Waste Services Group, you’ll help maintain the safe, reliable and efficient operation of specialist facilities that support the development of technologies for sustainable fusion energy. You’ll apply your technical and practical expertise to facility maintenance, engineering projects and waste processing equipment, helping to minimise operational risks and ensure compliance with relevant legislation. This is an opportunity to take technical ownership, support the development of new capabilities and contribute to the delivery of fusion energy research.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Maintain the safe and efficient operation of Waste Services facilities, plant, equipment and infrastructure.
• Diagnose equipment and facility issues, monitor performance and support corrective and preventative maintenance activities.
• Coordinate contractor activities, prepare work packages and oversee delivery to ensure work meets safety requirements and technical specifications.
• Plan and track maintenance activities, maintain accurate maintenance records and lead regular maintenance review meetings.
• Support Facility Responsible Officers with engineering projects, planned maintenance, corrective work and the introduction of new equipment.
• Contribute to the design, construction, installation and commissioning of waste processing equipment and systems.
• Prepare and review technical documentation, risk assessments, method statements and reports in accordance with established procedures and safe systems of work.
• Provide technical advice within your area of expertise, supporting engineering activities and liaising with internal and external contacts.
• Allocate tasks and provide technical direction to contracted operatives and apprentices, ensuring work meets required safety and quality standards.
• Support facility planning, resource coordination, emergency and on-call arrangements, and the wider development of technical capability within Waste Services.

What You’ll Bring

• An HNC in Engineering or an equivalent qualification, or significant relevant technical and operational experience in a similar role.
• IOSH Managing Safely certification or an equivalent qualification.
• Demonstrable experience working in a radioactive environment, including knowledge of contamination control and relevant processes.
• Proven experience preparing and working to safe systems of work, including risk assessments and method statements.
• Experience interpreting engineering drawings, schematics and technical documentation, and using asset management and computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint, or equivalent software.

UKAEA is an onsite organisation, and this role requires regular onsite presence (5 days a week) in line with business needs. We actively support flexible working arrangements where this is compatible with the role.

We have a generous range of benefits (see the full list here ) and highlights include:

• A salary of£43,702(inclusive ofa3,300 specialist allowance)
• Up to 7% corporate performance bonus
• Final salary defined benefits pension scheme with an equivalent of21.5% employer pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave plus2.5 'privilege' days;8 Bank Holidays
• Additional 3 days of site closure over Christmas break
• Flexible working options plus family-friendly leave provisions

Our commitment to ED&I

UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality, diversity,inclusionand accessibility, and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce.

Please email [e-mail] if you have any questions or require adjustments to help youparticipatefairly in our recruitment process, for example changes to the way we interview or share information. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates.

We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM, including women and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. All appointments are made onmeritand further information can be found here .