Senior Specialist Nuclear Materials Inventory Control Policy

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: £46,000 - £72,000 per annum (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• 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.

Let us introduce the role:

You will be required to support the accountancy and control of Nuclear Materials and Other Special Materials by delivering reports as required by the customer, managing software solutions to enhance and improve the future state and leading early engagement with new facility build projects to maintain the UK nuclear non-proliferation commitments and company material strategies.

Key Accountabilities:

• Build and maintain collaborative cross-functional working relationships with various project teams and the customer.
• Deliver current and future accountancy projects for the team.
• Deputise for the Senior Manager by representing the team as Subject Matter Expert on project review boards.
• Lead team activities and meetings when required.
• Deliver company accountancy reports to the customer.
• Manage and maintain the company accountancy and control processes and related documents to ensure compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.
• Manage and maintain the company level Inventory Holder Training and Appointment process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that project teams and the customer are fully supported by participating project reviews and other supporting meetings along with technical document review.
• Lead accountancy and control projects ensuring that they are developed, implemented, and administered across the business.
• Create reports relating to nuclear material accountancy to the required standard enabling presentation to MoD and Regulators where necessary.
• Ensure the delivery of reports required by the customer associated with Material Accountancy and Reconciliation are on time and to the correct standard.
• Ensure that systems are maintained and updated to ensure compliance with material accountancy and control requirements.
• Ensure that users are trained to use of Material Accountancy systems.

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don't always 'tick every box'. That's why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don't meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we'd love to receive your application.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Clear evidence of being able to learn and develop at a significant level.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Clear track record of engaging with stakeholders at various levels.
• Experience of providing Subject Matter Expert level advice to projects and businesses.
• Leadership experience.
• The ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Decision maker with proven problem-solving capability.
• Experience of working within a regulated environment.

The following would be advantageous:

• HND/Graduate level qualification or equivalent in engineering/science related discipline, project management, environmental or health and safety related discipline.
• Experience of delivering projects in a regulated industry.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Due to the classified nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston.

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