Senior Nuclear Waste Consultant

Overview

As a Senior Waste Consultant at AECOM, you will lead complex nuclear waste management projects from conception to delivery, ensuring quality, schedule, and budget adherence. You’ll provide technical leadership on waste characterization, treatment, storage, and disposal while shaping waste strategies and regulatory compliance. You’ll act as the main client contact, crafting proposals and delivering clear technical documents to stakeholders. This role offers diverse UK and international projects within a collaborative, cross-disciplinary team and a mission to deliver sustainable, safe solutions for the nuclear sector.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• competitive salary
• comprehensive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of complex nuclear waste management projects from inception to completion, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and high quality.
• Provide technical leadership across waste characterization, treatment, storage, and disposal domains.
• Develop and implement waste management strategies, plans and procedures in line with regulations and best practices.
• Perform technical assessments, risk analyses, and feasibility studies to support decision-making.
• Act as primary client contact, understand client needs, and deliver tailored solutions.
• Prepare and deliver technical presentations, reports, and documentation to clients and stakeholders.
• Advise clients on regulatory compliance, policy development, and strategic planning for nuclear waste management.
• Participate in planning activities to achieve project objectives; perform analysis and investigations from various sources.
• Conduct inspections and tests to ensure compliance; contribute to corrective actions and recommendations.
• Formulate hypotheses, conduct research, and propose recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineers to deliver projects from concept to completion.

Key requirements

• Desire to deliver technical excellence
• Project and financial management experience
• Commercial awareness for business development and proposals
• Excellent English communication and numeracy skills
• Self-starter with ability to work autonomously
• Experience on UK nuclear licensed sites or knowledge of UK Site Licence companies (desirable)
• Experience in waste management facilities or related studies (desirable)
• Experience in decommissioning studies or option development (desirable)
• Regulatory engagement experience (desirable)

• Strong communication
• Autonomy and initiative
• Collaborative teamwork
• Waste characterization
• Treatment, conditioning, packaging, storage, transport or disposal
• Waste management strategy development

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