Job Description for Technical Delivery Manager:
NNL is where you’ll experiment to help solve global challenges. As part of our Waste Management & Decommissioning capability, your work will impact the lives of generations. By finding new ways to avoid, reduce, store and treat nuclear waste, and drive down the cost of decommissioning, you’ll help to deliver cleaner energy and influence our nation’s energy future. You’ll face new challenges every day, working in unique locations on ground-breaking projects. Whichever area you specialise in this is a place to do great science for a good cause.
NNL is looking for a high calibre, motivated and experienced individual to be part of the Effluent, Environmental and Decontamination Chemistry management team and support the delivery of customer funded work by the laboratory team based at the NNL Preston facility. The team is part of the Waste Management and Decommissioning (WM&D) capability within NNL, which delivers commercial R&D to help solve a wide range of challenges in the nuclear industry. The team covers a broad range of laboratory-based projects and activities focused on the development of innovative characterisation and decontamination technology and ideas that can be deployed within radioactive environments. The size of the laboratory-based team is expected to grow in the coming years and there is the need to increase the number of personnel with the authority and accountability for management of experimental laboratory operations in this area.
NNL is looking for an experienced scientist with an aptitude and enthusiasm for management and a willingness to learn a new skill set and gain experience in a management role, to join a growing team and deliver an exciting programme of work for our customers. This role will give you the opportunity to develop your management skills while still delivering high-quality technical work.
The role will directly support the Capability Leader with the management and development of the area, along with providing technical capability to support delivery of customer funded research projects. The post holder will work closely with the Technical Leads, to ensure the team are mobilised for effective project delivery.
They will also produce the required safety and compliance documentation to support those activities, undertaking the required training to be able to work safely and effectively in our unique laboratories at the NNL Preston Laboratory, applying their knowledge to some key projects and programmes.
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NNL isn’t just a place where you can do career-defining work that makes a real-world impact. It’s also a place where you’ll feel appreciated and valued. We’re creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We put your wellbeing first, we push you to reach your potential, and we do everything possible to help you feel safe, supported and inspired.
We also offer a range of employee benefits:
About The Company
NNL is an incredible place to work. A place where people do things that have never been done before. A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business and society as a whole.
This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.