Radiation Protection Technician (Nuclear)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary: $35–$60 per hour

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates uranium enrichment services in the United States to support affordable nuclear fuel production.

What you will do

• Implement the facility’s Radiation Protection program across operations, startup, and radiological work planning activities.
• Perform smear, direct frisk, airborne radioactivity, and routine operational surveys using radiation protection instruments.
• Conduct radiological surveys for cylinder receipt, storage, inspection, maintenance, sampling, and movement.
• Maintain survey maps, logs, turnover notes, deficiency reports, contamination controls, postings, and radiological boundaries.
• Respond to alarms, spills, contamination events, material-handling abnormalities, and personnel incidents through surveys, boundary control, and event documentation.
• Support ALARA reviews, pre-job briefings, work package reviews, radiological hold points, SOP development, training materials, and daily job safety oversight.

Requirements

• Qualification through a documented Radiation Protection Technician training and qualification program, including classroom, task-specific, and supervised on-the-job training.
• Familiarity with portable radiation survey instrumentation, source checks, response checks, use limitations, calibration, and traceability expectations.
• Ability to qualify for respiratory protection duties, including medical clearance, training, and fit testing for tight-fitting respirators as applicable.
• Ability to complete hazardous materials transportation training relevant to assigned shipping, receiving, inspection, or pre-transport functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal, collaboration, prioritization, and initiative skills.
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.

Nice to have

• Experience in fuel-cycle facilities, DOE sites, commercial nuclear operations, uranium handling, or industrial radiological control.
• Experience creating survey maps, logs, turnover notes, and deficiency reports.
• Experience supporting procedure development and feedback processes.
• Experience providing daily job safety oversight in radiological environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on making nuclear energy more affordable.
• Culture emphasizing urgency, accountability, and transparency.
• Full-time hires may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options.
• Access to medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.