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Senior Radiation Protection Technician
Posted: 11/14/2024
2024-11-14
2025-01-08
Job Number: 1631
Job Description
Job Responsibilities / Tasks
Job Requirements
Minimum Education, Experience, and Certification Requirements
Education
Certifications
Required Experience
EnergySolutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Apply Online at: jobs.energysolutions.com
- Is responsible for field implementation of the Radiation Safety Program. Ensures compliance with company, local, state and federal radiation safety policies and regulations. Monitors radiological work controls and work activities involving radioactive material. Interprets and verifies field data obtained from radiation surveys using the appropriate instrumentation and/or analyses.
- Processes routine incoming radioactive shipments and checks for excessive contamination or dose levels.
- Collects, analyzes and interprets the results of various samples required to ensure compliance with local, state and federal radiation safety regulations and orders and environmental technical standards, guidelines and policies.
- Conducts area surveys to identify elevated levels of exposure or contamination. Responds to any incident or emergency regarding radionuclides. Maintains proper incident response equipment and supplies.
- Issues radiation work permits and briefs personnel on radiological conditions and work requirements.
- Monitors and controls personnel and material access to, and egress from, radiologically controlled areas.
- Operates, issues and radiological counting and detection equipment and air sampling equipment.
- Ensures proper operation and maintenance of radiological controls equipment.
- Participates in emergency preparation drills and emergency responses.
- Maintains field radiation protection records such as survey logs and radiation work permit entry and exit records.
- May lead and direct the work of Radiation Safety Technician 1 and 2 staff.
- Responsible for the safety performance of other radiation safety technicians.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Detailed knowledge of local, state and federal radiation safety compliance regulations.
- Detailed knowledge of the interpretation of local, state and federal radiation safety compliance regulations.
- Detailed knowledge of the principles and practices of radiation safety compliance.
- Detailed knowledge of, and skill in using, radiation monitoring instrumentation and methods.
- Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office products and their use (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint) and database applications.
- Ability to schedule tasks assigned to other radiation safety technicians.
- Demonstrated ability to identify exposure levels, recognize trends and develop radiation controls.
- Demonstrated ability to handle more complex work and work broader in scope such as more than one subject area of focus.
Job Requirements
- Ability to lift, carry, push, pull up to 50 pounds; handle, grip, and reach above or below shoulder.
- Ability to use hands and feet to accomplish tasks as assigned.
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, climb, bend/stoop, crouch, squat/kneel, twist at the waist and balance.
- Ability to climb hand-over-hand on ladders, stairs, and scaffold.
- Ability to work at elevated heights.
- Ability to effectively communicate; speaking, reading, understanding, writing and hearing clear English; pass audiogram in hearing conservation program as required by location.
- Basic math, and computer skills.
- Ability to perceive depth and adjust focus; basic hand/eye coordination.
- Ability to see close and distance, basic colors/shades, and peripheral vision.
- Ability to work inside an office, outside, and in extreme temperatures.
- Ability to work with moving objects, hazardous machines, and on slippery/uneven walking surfaces.
- Ability to wear protective equipment such as: goggles, hard hat, gloves, steel toe boots with or without shank, and chemical resistant coveralls.
- Ability to work with others; ability to operate equipment.
- Ability to wear a respirator and work around ionizing radiation.
- Ability to read small text, blueprints, documents, procedures, and instrument readouts.
- Certified 24 Hour Site Specific Hazwopper, Radworker, and Respiratory Physical.
Minimum Education, Experience, and Certification Requirements
Education
- High School diploma or GED
Certifications
- Qualification as a technician in accordance with ANSI/ANS-18.1 standard, “Selection, Qualification and Training of Personnel for Nuclear Power Plants
- National Registry of Radiation Protection Technologists (NRRPT) certification preferred.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of experience as a radiation safety technician
EnergySolutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Apply Online at: jobs.energysolutions.com
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