Job Title: Senior Radiation Protection Technologist
Job Purpose
Plan, lead and execute Radiation Protection activities as per the regulatory requirements, operating policies and principles, nuclear standards for nuclear safety, industrial, and environmental protection, to ensure overall business performance objectives are achieved.
Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability
pliance with, and adherence to, policies, procedures and instructions related to the effective planning for, and response to, incidents and/or business disruptions in order to continue critical business processes and activities with minimal adverse impact.
Activity:
People Management
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
• Contribute to the development of UAE National employees in a manner which supports the objectives of the corporation and its Emiratization strategy.
• Contribute to knowledge dissemination/sharing in a way that assists with building internal capabilities of UAE Nationals where applicable and maximize their effective performance.
Activity:
Excellence and Quality Management
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• Ensure commitment to a culture of continuous improvement by eliminating waste, following operations procedures, practicing innovation, problem solving, and teamwork; complying with Quality Management System policies and procedures; providing and receiving constructive feedback, and striving to meet quality standards and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure commitment to the Nawah Fundamentals.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)
Activity:
Radiation Protection Shift
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• Control and manage access to Radiologically Controlled Area (RCA), contaminated area, and high radiation area in accordance with Radiation Protection program standards; includes carrying items into/ out of these areas.
• Ensure the Radiation Work Permits are aligned with radiation protection requirements.
• Review, validate and conduct radiation survey to check personnel, equipment and the environment for radioactive contamination and ambient radiation, and provide input into RWP analysis.
• Manage and guide use of personal Radiation Protection equipment including Health Physics Room equipment, Sample Counting Room equipment, dosimetry equipment, and portable radiation equipment to ensure high quality of all equipment and instrumentation.
• Lead the conduct of proper control of hazardous materials and contamination of equipment in Radiologically Controlled Area to ensure safe operations.
• Monitor personal contamination and perform personal decontamination to align with radiation safety requirements.
• Manage Radiation Protection during an emergency to meet Emergency Preparedness standards.
• Ensure prompt coordination for care of injured worker in Radiologically Controlled Area before evacuation to ensure exposure is minimized.
• Validate and check Radiation Monitoring System to ensure feedback is valid; check the Personal Contamination Monitor to ensure exposure is minimized.
• Lead and execute Liquid and Gaseous Radioactive Effluent Release as required to ensure compliance and minimize exposure.
• Assess skin dose and internal dose results as required to monitor plant personnel radiation exposure.
• Verify all tasks are performed timely and with quality to achieve highest level of safety and reliability.
Activity:
Staff Training and Qualification
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• Participate in training to equip necessary technical knowledge and skills.
• Provide training feedback on program effectiveness with evaluation of operator performance to ensure quality.
Activity:
Health, Safety and Environment, Security and Business Continuity
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• All individuals take personal responsibility for safety; follow company HSE policies, procedures and instructions; avoid complacency and continuously challenge existing conditions and activities in order to identify discrepancies that might result in error or in appropriate action; report any situation that could present a hazard; not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided at the workplace in the interest of health, safety, welfare or protection or management of the environment.
• Follow all relevant Security policies, processes, procedures, and instructions to ensure security compliance in all aspects of work, by applying them on self, others, and corporate assets.
• Follow all relevant Business Continuity and Resilience requirements for com
Professional Certifications
CertificateMin: N/A
CertificateMax: APR-1400 or OPR-1000
Qualifications
QualificationMin: • Diploma
• 5 years of relevant experience.
Or equivalent as stated in the Job Description Procedure (HR-PRC-0004).
QualificationMax: • 6 years of relevant experience, out of which:
- 1 year of experience in radiation safety area of a Nuclear Power Plant.
Experience
