Job Description

Job title: Health Physics Monitor

Location: Barrow in Furness- onsite full time

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

  • Providing assurance through radiation monitoring

  • Assisting the Radiation Protection Supervisor, to manage radiation protection issues across the submarine manufacturing facility and barriers

  • Carrying out audits on facilities such as the radiography enclosure

  • Inspecting equipment such as pumps and grinders, ensuring they are free from contamination

  • Operating the waste management plant

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Good understanding of radiation protection principles, techniques and legislation

  • Minimum 3 GCSE Grade C’s including Maths and 1 STEM (ideally Physics)

Desirable:

  • City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification, in Radiation Protection

  • Full UK Driving License

  • Practical experience in other nuclear operations, such as: high activity sealed sources, contamination, or radiation monitoring

  • Familiar with submarines/ nuclear industry/ industrial radiography

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. Including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Health Physics Team:

As a Health Physics Monitor you will be reporting to the Senior Engineer (Shift leader), working an appropriate shift pattern to provide 24/7 site support, in an overall team of approx. 24 employees across the professional & operational staff grades of Health Physicists & Senior Engineers, Engineers & technicians. In this role you will have the opportunity to support and professionally development yourself as well as support across various different programmes. The team has a diverse level of knowledge and skills to ensure continuous support to all submarine and facility build and commissioning phases, ensuring adequate radiation protection assurance and advice to protect people, the environment & product. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 21st October 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 52 weeks with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Gym membership – Discounts available
Buy or sell annual leave
Share options
Salary sacrifice
Employee discounts
Lunch and learns
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Mental health first aiders
Health insurance
Family health insurance
Annual bonus
Shared parental leave
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Relocation packages
Neo-natal leave
LinkedIn learning license
In house training

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