Radiation Protection Technician

Fixed term/Temporary
- Canada / Saskatchewan
- Full-time Regular (REG)

**Welcome to Orano**:

- Helping to meet current and future challenges to preserve our world and build the world of tomorrow while taking care of everyone's health is stimulating for you. For us too. By joining the Orano Group, a leading international player in the nuclear industry, you are in the right place.
- Every day we work to produce efficient low-carbon energy, to fight global warming, to find solutions that save natural resources, and to contribute to progress in health.
- Our strengths? Across the entire fuel cycle, we have extensive expertise in cutting-edge technologies, safe, high value-added products and services, and a strong capacity for innovation. All of these factors reflect the strong skills of our 17,000 employees, whom we are constantly striving to develop. With their different backgrounds and experience, they are proof of our openness to all talents. They share the same ambition: to give nuclear energy its full value.

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**Job description**:

- Priority will be given to qualified Athabasca residents

Responsibilities include:

- Carry out measurements prescribed in procedures and work instructions
- Record data collected as arranged
- Input data to appropriate databases or other records
- Carry out prescribed area, point and personnel monitoring, and develop required records
- Perform (or arrange for the performance of) calibration and maintenance of measuring devices and systems as prescribed
- Train/mentor employees as required by company programs
- Liaise with supervisors and workers in departments to ensure that actions in response to operational conditions are carried out as required
- Provide assistance and advice to employees on radiation and radiation protection related matters

Work Location & Schedule:

- McClean Lake Mine site
- Maximum 14 days in with at least equivalent time off (Normally 14 days in/14 days out rotating schedule)
- Normally an 11 hour work day, although some activity outside of normal working hours is frequently required

Fly Day
- This position will fly in and fly out on Tuesdays

Pick-Up Points: Saskatoon, Prince Albert, La Ronge, Buffalo Narrows and the designated communities in the Athabasca region of Camsell Portage, Uranium City, Stony Rapids, Fond du Lac, and Wollaston.

Drug (including marijuana) and alcohol substance testing is a requirement for all Safety Sensitive positions. Applicants who have recently used marijuana recreationally may not pass a substance test as marijuana can remain in the user’s system for as many as 30 days after use.

**Our Full-Time **Benefits**:

- A customized onboarding experience upon your arrival
- A welcoming environment and great coworkers
- A competitive salary and benefits package
- Training and Development opportunities throughout your career
- Fitness equipment available for use on work / camp premises
- All of the advantages of a large group while maintaining the dynamics of a smaller company: career advancement opportunities, social committee, interesting projects and opportunities to get involved in our strong commitments to communities.

**Ideal qualifications**:
Skills and Qualifications for the position include:

- Preference will be given to qualified Residents of Saskatchewan North (RSN)
- Technical school graduate in a related area (preferably with a Radiation Protection or Environmental Studies option) or equivalent qualifications and experience, or 1 to 5 years’ experience in a field related to environmental or workplace monitoring, preferably in the uranium mining industry
- Strong aptitude in mathematics, physics, and computers (i.e. databases)
- Technical and/or report writing skills are an asset
- Ensure accuracy of information gathered
- Required to work independently and respond to findings in an appropriate manner
- Required to have a sound knowledge of the company’s operations and of the requirements imposed by legislation and the various permits and licenses
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- Drug and alcohol substance testing is a requirement for all safety sensitive positions at Orano Canada._