Kalman & Company is seeking to hire an experienced Senior Nuclear Scientist: his will be a remote delivery position with required travel as needed to government locations in Kansas City, MO and Dallas, TX. Advanced training, experience, and knowledge in the field of nuclear spectroscopy as demonstrated in the resume by a minimum of an advanced degree in Nuclear Physics or Nuclear Engineering and a minimum of 5 years of documented experience in airborne applications of gamma-ray spectroscopy and airborne applications of spectroscopy.

Responsibilities:

• Operations, set-up, calibration, and inventory of airborne radiological instrumentation.
• Advise the government client on radiological instrumentation employment and results analysis.

Requirements

• US Citizenship is required.
• Advanced degree in Nuclear Engineering, Physics or Health Physics
• Minimum 5 years airborne gamma measurements
• Minimum 2 years of gamma spectroscopy experience in a laboratory or similar setting
• Experience with MCNP or similar codes, calculations for MDA of airborne spectrometers or other similar analyses.
• Experience in gamma spectroscopic analysis of uranium, thorium and series progeny.

Desired Qualifications

• Three to five years of experience in nuclear instrumentation quality assurance
• Previous or current training in DOT shipping requirements for radioactive material
• Spectroscopic experience with scintillators (NaI, LaBr) and solid-state detectors.
• Familiarity with secular equilibrium and its effects on spectral analysis.

Preferred:

• Preferred duty location is Kansas City, MO. Will consider remote work.