Job Details: Marine Specialist

	Marine Specialist
	Reference 254883AIB Salary Negotiable City Bridgwater Locations South West, Contract Type Permanent Full Time Date Posted 06/01/2012

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	We are currently searching for a Marine Specialist to join a leading Energy company within the nuclear industry. Nature and Scope The Marine Ecologist reports to the Environment Manager (Marine) who reports in to the Head of Planning. As Marine Specialist, you are required to support the Marine Ecologist in ensuring the provision of marine environmental advice and support to both line managers and other members of the NNB project team. The Marine Ecologist is responsible for evolving, specifying and directing the necessary studies and obtaining other specialist sources of advice, whilst coordinating these activities with other relevant parties. Working within a small team, you will be required to provide particular support on issues such as coastal governance (e.g. shoreline management) and geomorphology. This is an area of considerable technical, regulatory and operational complexity. The technical scope is multidisciplinary and involves a range of biological, chemical and physical sciences demanding considerable flexibility in both expertise and communication skills. The regulatory environment involves a wide range of planning, environmental, conservation and H&S bodies and a rapidly evolving set of requirements, some of which will be encountered first by NNB with no precedents already established by others. In dealing with these, specific assessment methodologies are having to be evolved and proposed and significant issues with outdated methodologies overcome. The operational plant is novel to the UK and elements of design are unrefined, with site specific application requiring particular care. You will also be responsible for assisting in the care of data and for understanding both past and current studies of relevance, within the marine environmental topic areas, together with routine provision of this understanding within NNB. There a variety of pertinent interfaces both internally and externally on which the job holder requires to function in order to provide the services described. These include dealings with CNEPE, CIDEN, R&D/LNHE, BE Ops and (besides others) Marine Authority Liaison Groups, Shoreline Management Groups and sundry interfaces (either individual or collective) with the various competent bodies. A high degree of personal credibility is required in these dealings. As the operational plant being considered within NNB has an intimate relationship with the marine environment both during its construction and over its operational life such a level of complexity, which bears on both operational and regulatory risk, is inevitable. The interfaces required both internally and with both the scientific community and the UK regulators are commensurate. You will need to consistently support the Marine Ecologist to maintain both a consistent set of interactions across the various interfaces described and a high degree of fluidity in anticipating and responding to specific technical challenges. There is a significant degree of cross-dependency between certain functions - within NNB Genco including Consents and Environment, and within DIN including CNEPE and CIDEN. A similar cross-dependency will exist with Nuclear Generation Ops. The job requires multidisciplinary scientific expertise and knowledge of environmental regulatory affairs and corporate liability and risk management. Skills and Qualifications • A multidisciplinary science base, majoring on one of the following themes but with significant experience of one or more others: coastal & estuarine hydrography; coastal geomorphology; coastal governance; shoreline management; • Knowledge of marine chemistry; ecotoxicology; marine and/or estuarine ecology; would also be beneficial but not essential • Good understanding of both current and anticipated marine environmental regulatory requirements • Highly numerate, lucid both in verbal and written communications • Excellent small teamworking skills • Full driving license required • Willingness to travel both widely and frequently in the UK and France as required • Experience with large scale cooling water systems and their environmental assessment would be of benefit but is not essential Principal Accountabilities • Assist in the development and maintenance of marine scientific studies in support of NNB in agreement with other relevant parties internally (CIDEN, CNEPE, R&D/LNHE) and ensure delivery of outputs to agreed schedules. • Assist in the development and maintenance of appropriate sources of expert advice to ensure both the quality and appropriate direction of these studies and provide guidance where necessary to NNB activities. • Ensure that the relevant historical material and the data associated with current studies and their outputs are secure and available for use across NNB. • Provide advice and support to the Marine Ecologist on marine scientific and allied regulatory and long term planning matters, including the drafting and presentation of relevant evidence in the form of statements of case and proofs of evidence, when called for. • Provide advice and support to the Marine Ecologist on marine scientific and allied regulatory and long term planning matters. • Provide technical advice on marine environmental matters where required in connection with NNB, including where relevant advice on aspects of engineering design, plant operation and management. • Support the Marine Ecologist in maintaining the relevant technical interfaces with CIDEN, CNEPE, R&D/LNHE and elsewhere internally, including Nuclear Generation Ops., necessary to ensure a consistent approach and timely delivery of the necessary advice. To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UKMatchtech Group Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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