Job title: Engineer – Health Physics
Location: Barrow in Furness (full time on site)
Salary: Competitive
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing assurance through radiation monitoring
- Assisting the Radiation Protection Supervisor, to manage radiation protection issues across the submarine manufacturing facility and barriers
- Carrying out audits on facilities such as the radiography enclosure
- Inspecting equipment such as pumps and grinders, ensuring they are free from contamination
- Operating the waste management plant
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Good understanding of radiation monitoring
Desirable:
- City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification, in Radiation Protection
- Full UK Driving License
- Practical experience in other nuclear operations, such as: high activity sealed sources, contamination, or radiation monitoring
- Familiar with submarines/ nuclear industry/ industrial radiography
Benefits:
Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.
The Engineer – Health Physics team:
As an Engineer – Health Physics you will be reporting to the Shift leader, working in a team of approx. 17 Project Leaders, Engineers & technicians.