| Location | Denver, Colorado (Remote) |
Location: Remote — anchored to Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Engagement: Contingent consulting/project-based assignment
Anticipated compensation: $150–$300 per hour or a negotiated fixed price for a defined work package
Travel: International travel may be required
Opportunity: USTDA Global Critical Minerals Project Scoping Services
Axyde Analytics is assembling a multidisciplinary expert cadre for a time-sensitive proposal to the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. If Axyde receives the award, USTDA may request support evaluating prospective international mining, mineral-processing, refining, infrastructure and critical-mineral supply-chain projects.
For GCM-2, Axyde is seeking a senior specialist with substantial, directly evidenced experience addressing radiological risk in mining, mineral processing or related industrial operations, particularly:
Uranium and thorium
Naturally occurring radioactive material
Technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material
Radiation protection and exposure control
Radioactive residues, tailings and process streams
Nuclear-material safeguards and regulatory considerations
This is a deliberately narrow technical requirement. The specialist may work within broader mining, processing, environmental and regulatory teams, but selection for GCM-2 will be based primarily on demonstrated depth in radiological and nuclear-mineral risk.
This is not a general environmental, health and safety, industrial-hygiene, hazardous-materials or mining position. General EHS experience will not substitute for directly relevant radiological experience.
Depending on the assignment, the specialist may:
Identify uranium, thorium, NORM or TENORM risks associated with mineral deposits, concentrates, process streams, residues, tailings and products.
Evaluate radiological implications of rare-earth, heavy-mineral-sands, phosphate, uranium or polymetallic projects.
Review radiation-survey, dose-assessment, sampling, laboratory and monitoring information.
Evaluate occupational and public-exposure pathways, including inhalation, ingestion, direct radiation and environmental transport.
Assess radiation-protection programs, monitoring plans, engineering controls, administrative controls and personal protective measures.
Review radioactive-material handling, storage, transportation, residue management and disposal assumptions.
Evaluate tailings and waste-management approaches involving radioactive constituents.
Identify host-country regulatory, permitting, licensing, safeguards and institutional-capacity requirements.
Compare proposed practices with applicable U.S. and internationally recognized radiological-protection principles.
Review project assumptions involving uranium or thorium recovery as a primary product, coproduct, byproduct or regulated waste constituent.
Identify data gaps, testing requirements, regulatory uncertainties and conditions for responsible project advancement.
Contribute to scopes of work, terms of reference, budgets, schedules, monitoring plans and technical-risk registers.
Prepare or independently review concise, decision-grade technical findings and recommendations.
Participate in remote meetings, stakeholder discussions and international site visits when required.
Applicants must demonstrate meaningful experience in one or more of the following:
Uranium exploration, mining, processing, recovery or remediation.
Thorium-bearing mineral systems.
NORM or TENORM evaluation and management.
Radiological characterization of ores, concentrates, residues, tailings or industrial process streams.
Radiation protection, health physics or dose assessment.
Radiological sampling, monitoring, laboratory analysis or data validation.
Radioactive waste, residue or tailings management.
Rare-earth or heavy-mineral processing involving uranium or thorium coproducts.
Nuclear-material safeguards, accountability, licensing or regulatory compliance.
Radiological environmental assessment, remediation or closure planning.
Applicants must distinguish their personal technical contributions from the work performed by the broader project or organization.
DO NOT SUBMIT A GENERAL RÉSUMÉ.
The submitted résumé must clearly identify:
At least two directly relevant radiological, uranium, thorium, NORM or TENORM projects.
The minerals, materials, facilities or process streams involved.
The radiological hazards or regulatory issues evaluated.
The applicant’s personal role and technical responsibility.
The specific surveys, models, assessments, controls, designs or reviews performed.
The applicable project scale and operating environment.
Technical reports, permits, safety analyses, monitoring plans or recommendations personally produced.
Measurable outcomes, regulatory decisions or risk reductions, where available.
A résumé that merely lists environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, hazardous materials, mining safety or nuclear-sector proximity without demonstrating substantive radiological responsibility will not be advanced.
Breadth is not rewarded for GCM-2 unless the required radiological or nuclear-mineral depth is first established.
Advanced degree in health physics, nuclear engineering, radiological science, environmental engineering, mining engineering, geochemistry or a closely related discipline.
Certified Health Physicist, Professional Engineer or comparable professional credential.
Experience with uranium, rare-earth, phosphate or heavy-mineral-sands projects.
Familiarity with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency or comparable host-country requirements.
Experience evaluating projects in emerging markets or jurisdictions with developing regulatory institutions.
Experience preparing independent technical reviews, feasibility-study inputs, environmental assessments or lender/investor due diligence.
Experience preparing English-language reports for government, financial or executive decision-makers.
Applicants must:
Be a U.S. citizen or a non-U.S. citizen lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.
Be potentially available to begin supporting an authorized assignment within approximately 20 days, subject to final scheduling.
Be willing and able to travel internationally when an assignment requires it.
Identify any country, customer, travel, employment, security, export-control or conflict-of-interest restrictions.
Be able to perform without using or disclosing classified information or proprietary information belonging to another employer or client.
Authorize Axyde to tailor and reformat the submitted résumé without materially changing the applicant’s qualifications.
A current or former security clearance may be relevant to certain experience but is not required unless a future assignment expressly states otherwise.
This announcement supports proposal and contingent-workforce planning. It does not guarantee employment, contract award, minimum hours or a specific assignment. Any engagement will remain subject to contract award, assignment requirements, final role alignment, eligibility, availability, mutually acceptable compensation and execution of appropriate engagement documentation.
Submit a résumé specifically tailored to uranium, thorium, NORM, TENORM or radiological-risk work. Include a short statement identifying:
Your strongest radiological or nuclear-mineral subspecialty.
The minerals, materials and facilities with which you have worked.
Two directly relevant projects and your personal technical contribution.
Your current location.
Your U.S.-citizen or lawful-permanent-resident status.
Your international-travel availability.
Your anticipated hourly rate or fixed-work-package preference.
Applicants who cannot demonstrate direct depth in radiological or nuclear-mineral risk should not apply to GCM-2.