Health Physicist- Submarines

Job Description

Radiation Protection Advisers (RPAs) Radioactive Waste Advisors and Health Physicists (HPs)

Full Time

Derby

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls Royce Submarines currently has 2 exciting opportunities for either Radiation Protection Advisers (RPAs) Radioactive Waste Advisors and Health Physicists (HPs) with varying degrees of experience to join Rolls-Royce Submarines Limited (RRSL) in Derby. We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority for building and maintaining their reactors.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

The work of the Safety, Security and Licencing Authority Radiation Protection team is to develop Radiation and Radioactive Waste Policy and provide Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste governance by following and developing processes.  These ensure that RRSL is compliant company standards and with requirements for operating 2 nuclear Licensed Sites at Raynesway Derby as well as external areas across Rolls Royce Submarines Ltd.

We will offer excellent development opportunities, training, and support for you to progress and gain the experience and knowledge to become a Radiation Protection Advisor.  We also offer a market leading salary based on your knowledge, experience and qualifications as well as other exceptional benefits including:

• Company pension contributions up to 12% of your salary,
• 26 days leave, with the ability to accrue an additional 16 days through additional hour,
• Employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are.  Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed through an informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What You Will Be Doing:

As a Health Physicist you will be working under the guidance of a Radiation Protection Manager working across operational facilities and Rolls Royce out stations:

• Be part of a team dealing with the day-to-day operations across 2 Nuclear licenced sites,
• Supporting the new build programme for operational facilities, with Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste and Environmental Permitting Advice,
• Developing standards and arrangements, for Radiation Protection Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Permitting, Carriage of Dangerous Goods Class 7 and enforcing these across RRSL.

Who we are looking for

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do.  These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Essential:

• A science-based degree or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Experience working within Health Physics, radiation protection or radioactive waste and environment is desirable, but not essential as training will be provided.
• Ability to use bespoke software applications is essential for the role.
• Interpersonal and effective communication skills (both verbal and written) with team leader and other members of staff
• The ability to follow documented procedures and processes, ability to plan own work within job requirements.

Desirable:

• Radiation Protection Advisor
• Chartered Radiation Profession

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives.

And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

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