Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: £28,420-£33,000 (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.
Let us introduce the role
AWE is currently recruiting for a NTR Associate Portal Testing Specialist as part of the Cyclamen Portal Testing Team that sits within the wider NTR Operational Support Team.
Provides practical radiological and logistical support to the Nuclear Threat Reduction (NTR) portal testing programme: providing day-to-day assistance to ensure that the portal testing capability is maintained and readily available.
This team travel around the UK testing portal systems and working in collaboration with UK Border Force. Ensuring the safety and security of the UK Borders.
Who are we looking for?
This role is ideally suited to someone who is happy to travel around the UK and staying away for various amount of time. This role also requires evening/weekend work. Has awareness of the associated security and compliance requirements and able to adapt to short notice changes.
We do need you to have the following:
- Proven organisational skills to actively manage schedules to meet demand.
- Cat B license
Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience of:
- ADR licence
- An ability to adapt to short notice changes.
- Operational experience would be beneficial
You'll need to have the ability to:
- Demonstrate and promoting high standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality
- Engaging and building internal and external relationships related to the task that the team undertake
- Adhere to the standards around expected company behaviours
- Support delivery to meet customer requirements
- Identify and report to the local accountability board (Visual Management Boards)
- Work alone or as part of a team, and being a great team player
- Acting as a Work Supervisor for compliance with company work control arrangements
This role will require travel around the UK and occasionally abroad.
A full clean car driving licence is required.
Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.
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.
The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.
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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