Operations & Technical Support Assistant

Job Introduction

The Environmental Services team at NNL require a chemist to provide a technical support service in the development and implementation of experimental programmes for our major commercial customers and internal research programmes.

Day-to-day your work will involve the development and delivery of experimental programmes within our non-active and active facilities within the Central Laboratory. 

Role Responsibility

• Provide support in the area of effluent and environmental chemistry including technical input to experimental design of projects based in the non-active and active laboratories.
• Perform non-active and active experiments in a broad range of effluent and environmental science areas including running of experimental rigs
• Development of commercial work programmes and collaborative research with academia and partner organisations.
• Ensure detailed work records are maintained in accordance with laid down procedures.
• Interpretation and presentation of results including contributions to Technical Memoranda and Reports.
• Ensure all relevant safety rules and procedures are applied by all staff.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Honours degree or HNC in a science discipline and relevant level of experience.
• Experience of delivering experimental work programmes.
• Evidence of ability to plan and direct own work.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines to deliver quality technical work.
• Flexibility to deal with changing work loads.

Desirable Skills/Qualifications:

• Experience in conducting ion exchange column trials and batch tests, including preparation of test materials and simulants and day to day running of the trials.
• Evidence of ability to plan and direct own work.
• Experience of a variety of analytical methods
• Evidence of problem solving and information seeking.
• Active fumehood experience.

About the Company

We play a key role in the UK and global nuclear industry. That means reducing the cost of clean-up and decommissioning, maintaining critical skills and attracting talented new people to the industry. We're the only UK organisation with the skills, facilities and expertise to provide technical support to all aspects of the nuclear industry. What's more, we pride ourselves on offering quality, value and service to every one of our customers.

National Nuclear Laboratory