Remote Handling Operator

About the role

We are looking to build up our team of Operators to join our Remote Handling (RH) Group. The RH Group plays a key role in operating, maintaining, and developing the equipment used for transferring and processing radioactive components and waste within the ESS Active Cells Facility (our environment for handling radioactive components safely) using specialised Cask Assemblies. You will work with highly specialised remote handling systems, heavy lifting equipment, Virtual Reality-supported operations, and complex electromechanical systems in a unique radioactive waste handling and maintenance environment. If you enjoy complex technical challenges, hands-on engineering work, problem solving, and working with advanced equipment in a highly collaborative international environment, this role offers something genuinely different.

Responsibilities

• You will work with:
• Telemanipulators and haptic robotic systems.
• Remotely operated cranes and lifting systems.
• Remote cutting and machining equipment.
• Radioactive waste management using specialised transport containers for handling radioactive waste.
• Camera-guided and VR-supported operations.
• Various complex electromechanical systems.
• Remote handling tooling and inspection devices.
• Day to day, you will:
• Provide technical support in preparing work procedures and risk assessments.
• Support commissioning, testing, maintenance, and rebuilding activities.
• Operate and maintain specialist remote handling equipment.
• Troubleshoot complex mechanical and electromechanical systems.
• Work closely with engineers to improve equipment reliability and maintainability.
• Produce and update technical and maintenance documentation.
• Support workshop and fabrication activities where required.
• Contribute to safe operations within radiation-controlled environments.
• Support planning activities for large-scale lifting and maintenance operations.
• ESS will provide extensive specialist training, including opportunities to collaborate with internationally recognised remote handling experts.
• This position is a full-time, permanent role with a 6-month probationary period. It is based at the brand-new https://youtu.be/d5h4bIEfM5Q?si=W28A9wLAkYK3HOXJ.
• About you:

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in an engineering or industrial technician/operator role.
• Experience working within formal work control or regulated industrial environments.
• Strong mechanical or electromechanical skills.
• Experience working from engineering drawings and schematics.
• Experience assembling, testing, commissioning, or maintaining industrial equipment.
• Experience producing or following technical maintenance documentation.
• Safe operation experience with workshop machinery and tools.
• Good English communication skills, written and spoken.
• Experience in any of the following would be an advantage:
• Remote handling systems or robotics.
• Nuclear, radioactive, offshore, aerospace, fusion, or other high-integrity industries.
• Heavy lifting or crane operations.
• PLC troubleshooting or controls systems.
• Machining, fabrication, CNC, or wire saw operation.
• VR-based tools or digital engineering environments.
• To apply:
• A career at ESS gives you the opportunity to contribute to the future discoveries within neutron science at a stunning, brand-new workplace filled with innovative minds and brilliant people from across the globe

Additional Information

Help operate one of Europe's most advanced scientific facilities. The European Spallation Source (ESS) is one of the largest science and technology infrastructure projects being built today. ESS will soon be the world's most powerful source of neutrons, providing researchers with unique opportunities to explore the structure of materials at the atomic level. Neutron scattering at ESS will address critical questions in physics, chemistry, geology, materials science and life science.

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