Company description

Ringhals nuclear power plant delivers fossil-free electricity every day, all year round. We have more than 40 years of experience in electricity production. Ringhals is located on the west coast in Varberg municipality, six miles south of Gothenburg.

Our employee culture is characterized by competence, knowledge and positive people who want to share their knowledge. At Ringhals, we are constantly working to develop our business and our way of working to be able to meet the demands that customers and the outside world place on us. Therefore, we see the individual's development as a major part of the company's future. With us, you are offered personal development in a workplace with many opportunities.

Please read more about our business https://group.vattenfall.com/se/var-verksamhet/ringhals

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to grow in your professional career and at the same time want to contribute to Sweden's fossil-free electricity supply? Now you have the opportunity to do so with us at Ringhals. We are working together for a fossil-free future. To achieve our goal, we need committed employees who want to work at one of Sweden's largest electricity producers and at the same time contribute to a better climate on our planet.

Ringhals now offers an outgoing and independent work as a radio physicist within Ringhals decommissioning operations.

About the role

Waste issues are gaining an increasing focus at Ringhals. There is now an opportunity to be involved and influence the development and enable Vattenfall's vision to make Sweden fossil-free within a generation. The work we are now doing in radioactive waste management is important not only today - but for 100,000 years to come. Now you have the opportunity to be part of continuing to create a safe and fossil-free future by ensuring that the decommissioning of the Ringhals 1 and 2 reactors continues in a responsible and qualitative way. Demonstrating and taking responsibility for the entire life cycle is a prerequisite for future new investments in nuclear power.

Ringhals' unit for active waste (RGM) handles Ringhals' low and intermediate level nuclear waste. This includes receiving, treating, packaging, documenting and reporting, and disposing of active waste in accordance with applicable requirements. The unit also performs radiological decontamination of waste, components and tools. The assignment involves managing all Ringhals reactors, both those in operation and those under decommissioning.

The group consists of 28 employees consisting of waste engineers, radiophysicists and mission leaders. Together, you focus on managing the waste that arises during the dismantling of Ringhals 1 and 2. The group's main task is to create conditions and provide guidelines for the management of both free-classifiable and active waste in the decommissioning process. Within mission management, projects are constantly underway that support and develop waste activities, often in collaboration with several functions throughout the decommissioning activities

Management of low and intermediate level waste from nuclear activities is continuously developed to meet the needs that arise in connection with dismantling and decommissioning.

We are now looking for three radiophysicists to our group; active waste decommissioning (RGMW). The group's mission goes towards the FENIX program, which is the activity responsible for the decommissioning of Ringhals 1 and 2. The decommissioning activities will last well into the 2030s.

As a radiophysicist at RGM, practical, analytical, strategic and administrative tasks are included that can span several areas: measurement programs, radiation protection assessments, evaluation of measurement results, measurement methods, detector technology, clearance technology and training, etc. You are the support and sounding board for the demolition projects and your network of colleagues will extend beyond your own working group.

As a qualified radiophysicist, the responsibilities are mainly analytical and strategic tasks in the areas of the activity. Review, referral, interpretation and implementation of external requirements and regulations is an important part of the work, which includes tasks that involve checking and ensuring correct application in Ringhals operations. As a qualified radiophysicist, you are required to have the ability to lead, make strategic decisions and translate these into operations. You have documented competence and experience from our field of activity and are in addition suitable to guide and support the organization as well as more junior colleagues. You have the ability to use your specific professional skills to contribute to the whole.

Your tasks:

As a radiophysicist/qualified radiophysicist at RGMW, you can work with, among other things:

• Strategic analysis and calculations.
• Qualified nuclide-specific measurements, nuclide inventories and application of nuclide vectors, for example in emission monitoring, clearance or radiological mapping.
• Business development, requirements interpretation and implementation of requirements and regulations adapted for demolition activities,
• Authority reporting and authority contacts.
• Teaching and development and production of training materials
• Radiation shielding calculations and source term assessments

Requirements

Qualifications

• Education in medical physics or degree in physics with specialization in nuclear or radio physics (magister, master's or doctoral degree)
• Several years of experience as a radiophysicist, hospital physicist or equivalent (requirement for a position as a qualified radiophysicist)
• Experience in interpreting regulatory requirements, for example from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written
• B driving license

Additional:

• Experience in the nuclear industry and/or its decommissioning
• Practical and analytical experience in gamma spectrometry

Personal qualities:

Since you will complement an existing work group in addition to the qualifications, great emphasis is placed on your ability to interact with your colleagues and in your interfaces with others in the decommissioning program. You are happy to think outside existing ways of working but without compromising the requirements of the business. You are a team player driven by the collective achievement of the team more than the dream of being the lone star.

You plan, organize and prioritize your work together with your colleagues and ensure that deadlines are met. You take initiative, drive activities forward and focus on achieving results. You have good problem-solving skills, deal with complex issues and analyze them systematically to find thoughtful solutions.