Dosimetry Controller

Job Title:                     Dosimetry Controller

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Role ID:                        SF76646

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Dosimetry Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Dosimetry Controller, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to join a small, friendly and highly specialised team supporting one of the UK's most important nuclear facilities. You'll play a key role in helping maintain safe working environments by managing radiation dose monitoring programmes and ensuring robust dosimetry arrangements that support the delivery of critical defence and infrastructure projects. Working within our Naval Nuclear business, you'll develop specialist expertise while contributing to work that directly supports national security and the safe operation of vital facilities.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide essential support to managers across the Devonport site, helping them fulfil their responsibilities to maintain individual and collective radiation doses as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). You'll work with a wide range of stakeholders, managing dosimetry services, contracts, budgets, monitoring programmes and specialist equipment while ensuring compliance with regulatory and company requirements.

• Operating the Devonport Site Dosimetry System in line with legislation, company requirements and industry best practice.
• Managing dosimetry-related contracts, budgets and associated records using company systems.
• Coordinating and monitoring the site's Radon Monitoring Programme.
• Overseeing the day-to-day operation of the Whole-Body Monitor, its operators and associated radioactive sources.
• Maintaining dosimetry equipment and hardware assets, including the use of maintenance management systems.

This role is full-time 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Dosimetry Controller

• Experience in office administration, including the use of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Experience working with customers, stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Recent experience administering dosimetry programmes or services.
• Recent experience working within radiation protection or a related regulated environment.
• Experience managing contracts and budgets.

Qualifications for the Dosimetry Controller

Essential:

• GCSEs or equivalent qualifications in Science, Mathematics, English Language and English Literature.

Desirable:

• NVQ in Administration, Customer Service or a related discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 29/10/2026

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