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Senior Radiation Protection Consultant

Hybrid in Warrington·Full-time·Added 6 days ago (last checked 8 Oct)

Overview

Job details

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

  • Apply by Wednesday 21 October

    The date the employer’s listing closes.

Requirements

  • Be near Warrington for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have senior-level experience

    Senior-level role.

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Demonstrable experience working within a radiation protection role.
  • Strong knowledge of radiation protection legislation, standards and best practice.
  • Experience supporting projects within the nuclear, defence or highly regulated sectors.
  • Knowledge and experience of site licence compliance arrangements.
  • Understanding of Office for Nuclear Regulation Safety Assessment Principles and their practical application.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • Employee share scheme
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
  • 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
  • Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Visa & relocation

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The role

Job Title: Senior Radiation Protection Consultant

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Radiation Protection Consultant at one of our key nuclear locations, near Warrington (Cheshire), Newbury (Berkshire), Bristol or Leicester (Leicestershire).

As a Senior Radiation Protection Consultant, you'll join our specialist Radiation Protection team, supporting a diverse portfolio of defence and civil nuclear projects across the UK. This is an opportunity to influence nationally important programmes, working alongside multidisciplinary experts to ensure radiological risks are managed effectively and compliantly.

What you'll do

  • Providing radiation protection advice and guidance to projects, ensuring legislative compliance and industry best practice.
  • Supporting multidisciplinary engineering and safety teams across design and operational nuclear programmes.
  • Producing and coordinating technical radiological protection documentation, including risk assessments, zoning assessments, ALARP assessments and compliance documentation.
  • Leading radiation protection activities on projects while mentoring and supporting junior colleagues.
  • Participating in hazard identification studies and contributing to the continuous improvement of radiation protection processes and procedures.

How you'll work

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Role Type

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID

Role ID: SF 74761

The role

This role is based at one of our locations in Warrington, Newbury, Bristol or Leicester, working 37 hours per week Monday to Friday. Hybrid working patterns are available, and travel to other Babcock, Cavendish Nuclear and customer sites will be expected.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to

Essential experience of the Senior Radiation Protection Consultant:

Qualifications for the Senior Radiation Protection Consultant:

  • Holds, or is working towards, RPA2000 certification as a Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA).

Hiring process

1 interview

  • If you will work on Ministry of Defence sites you also have to meet MoD security requirements.

About Babcock International

Industry
Engineering
Founded
1891
Employees
30,000–40,000
Headquarters
London, UK

In their own words

About the company & team

We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Additional information

Closing date: 21/10/2026

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