Explosives Supervisor
Date: 31 Aug 2024
Location: Isle of South Uist, Scotland, GB
Company: QinetiQ
Job Title: Explosives Supervisor
Location: South Uist and Butec
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF16253
The Role
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an Explosives Supervisor to manage Ordinance, Munitions and Explosive Estates Licences and supervise related tasks, including the safe storage, handling, processing and transportation of Explosives Substances and Articles as well as conducting various trials. This person will responsible for the operational delivery of the OME project tasks at our South Uist site.
Day to day, you'll:
- Conduct safety checks/inspections on explosives facilities
- Supervise explosives safety within own area of responsibility
- Provide leadership within own area of responsibility including the allocation of tasks and the checking of work done by own team
- Have full supervisory responsibility, ensuring that team members are motivated and capable of delivering a professional service and a high-level of performance
- Manage equipment in an explosives environment
This role is full-time, 37 hours per week with an expectation that the role holder will travel frequently between South Uist and our Butec site as required.
Experience of the Explosives Supervisor:
- Deep OME Technical background
- Detailed knowledge of ER14/DSA 03 and safe systems to work
- Experienced in Licenced Explosives Facility Management
- Demonstrable experience across a variety of explosives related projects
Qualifications of the Explosives Supervisor:
- Familiar with Explosives Storage and Transport Committee (ESTC) leaflet 6.
- A current ADR Licence would be an advantage
Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
- We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
- Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community.
Why join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.
Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.
About QinetiQ
As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.
Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.