Criticality Scientists

AWE PLC ,
Thatcham, Berkshire
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Criticality Scientists Location: Reading / Basingstoke area Package: AWE offer a competitive salary, market leading contributory pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, excellent work/life balance including a 9-day working fortnight and flexible working hours (role dependent). A salary sacrifice scheme is also available. AWE has been named in the Sunday Times top 25 big companies to work for in 2019. We are looking to recruit a number of Criticality Scientists at various stages of their careers who can support the important work carried out at AWE. Key aspects of the role will be to support the delivery of criticality safety assessments and the provision of specialist criticality safety support and advice to the facility / operational / project management teams to the agreed schedule for delivery, quality and cost. We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates with hands on experience working within Criticality (or a related discipline in Chemical Engineering or Nuclear industry). Some knowledge and or experience of the following would also be preferred: · Techniques used in criticality safety and an overview of the different regulatory methods outside the UK · Producing safety deliverables, such as Design Safety Assessments, Safety Cases, Safety Statements, Trials Hazard Statements and other supporting assessments · Hazard identification through HAZIDs / HAZOPs · Nuclear physics; e.g. cross section uncertainties for Pu and U isotopes, nuclear data libraries, energy structures, collision processing techniques, ability to derive uncertainties using experimental data (and appropriate ranges of application) · Nuclear transport codes - Monte Carlo and deterministic methods · Requirements of fissile operations within a Nuclear Licensed Site · Physics of criticality (and an understanding of the chemistry and metallurgy of fissile materials) · Risk assessment and hazard identification methods applied to major nuclear plant · The Nuclear regulatory framework within the UK Candidates must be willing to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. LI-GD This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89775117

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