Company Description

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world's energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.

UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for ground-breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working options including family friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment.
• Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders,
• Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
• Wide range of career development opportunities
• A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive

The salary for this role is £54,376 (inclusive of a Market Premium Payment (MPP)), and onsite working is expected for 3 days each week.

Job Description

This role can be based at can any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Senior Nuclear Analyst, you will play a pivotal role, utilizing your experience with radiation transport modelling and inventory calculations to deliver high complexity tasks independently and/or through supervision of a small team (typically up to 5.0 FTE). You will also contribute to and drive code development needs to support nuclear analysis within the Applied Radiation Technology group. You will also be using strong relationships built within FT and across UKAEA to exploit business and other internal opportunities, defining and deploying short-to-medium term collaborative projects.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Building and developing strong relationships with external stakeholders, including academic collaborators and industrial end users, to understand commercial and other external collaboration opportunities.
• Ensuring appropriate research, analysis, and evaluation tools are used by staff to assess and develop engineering solutions in complex and representative environments.
• Preparing and/or review reports and documentation, and present research findings through appropriate meetings and forums.
• Working with scientists and engineers to understand end-user requirements and, where required, develop/deliver test facilities.
• Maintaining timely and clear communication about progress.
• Contributing to improving best practices and quality standards within the team and across the organisation.
• Working with external collaborators e.g. universities, public sector research establishments, and industry to complement UKAEA's internal capability, access additional expert knowledge, and facilitate new project proposals.
• Ensuring the development of research capability by mentoring, coaching, and providing technical guidance to staff, students, secondees and other team members.
• Promoting UKAEA's values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Working in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by Management.
• The appointee may be required to manage budgets allocated to their specific tasks. Where leading small team projects, they may also be required to approve procurement requests and timesheets on behalf of team members.
• When defining work in the short term, the appointee must produce and secure defensible budget estimates and inform relevant parties of any deviations from this budget in a timely fashion.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

• PhD in a STEM-related discipline, or similar level of experience in a structured research environment.
• Multiple years' experience with the use of radiation transport codes (e.g., MCNP/OpenMC) and inventory codes (e.g., FISPACT-II) to perform detailed nuclear analysis.
• Multiple years' experience working in a technology-driven field.
• Appetite to learn, research, investigate and tackle new challenges.
• Ability to work as part of a team and communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms.
• Ability to plan and prioritise workload.

Desirable Requirements:

• Knowledge and experience with nuclear physics
• Knowledge and experience with scientific programming and scripting (e.g., Fortran, python scripting)
• Knowledge and experience of Linux operating systems, parallel computing (e.g. MPI and OpenMP) and high-performance computing
• Knowledge and experience of magnetic confinement fusion, and of working in the fusion industry.
• Knowledge and experience of CAD modelling software/tools

Additional Information

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.