Roles
When you apply to join the Sellafield Graduate Scheme you're not applying to a specific role or vacancy. That's just one more of the things that you might not be expecting. We prefer to get to know you a little bit more first then, as your application progresses; together we'll find the perfect role for you within our business.
We are now only currently looking to recruit the following disciplines into the roles below
Control, Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Project Management
Design Engineering
Design engineering covers a wide range of activities and supports both operational plants and decommissioning projects. Join us and you'll gain experience throughout the project life-cycle, from concept and design, through to construction, commissioning, operation and decommissioning, giving you an invaluable all-round insight into a fascinating discipline.
Within the concept phase you might be involved in assessing the feasibility of a number of options to deliver a business need, while in design you'll deal with specifications of work, calculations, interpretation of R&D and definition of design intent.
Through the later phases, you'll have an important role to play in ensuring safety, environmental protection and quality. And, in any of these activities, you're likely to work in multi-disciplinary teams, enjoying the opportunity to see technical solutions in the context of a commercial environment.
As a Control, Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer you could end up designing a complex programmable control system to ensure radioactive waste is contained and controlled.
Plant Engineering
Typically based in a front-line engineering support team within an operational plant, you'll be in a real, hands-on role from day one. Supported by your line manager and an independent professional mentor, you'll experience a wide range of projects and operations, developing a deep knowledge of one of the world's most complex and challenging engineering sectors. New plants continue to be constructed, commissioned and operated, while significant work is ongoing to decommission historic plants and manage the nuclear legacy. Gaining experience in a range of plants and at all stages of their life-cycles, you'll keep abreast of new developments and play an important role in ensuring the efficient and safe delivery of multi-million pound projects.
Technical Support
In Technical Support you'll be working within a multi-disciplinary team, growing your specialist knowledge and expertise to improve the operation of the plants and processes at Sellafield. You'll gain an in-depth knowledge of plant technology, acting as a source of advice and guidance to a wide range of customers, sharing best practice and helping drive through technological improvements. You'll learn how to formulate development programmes too and manage the technical interface with suppliers.
So it's a role that will really deepen and broaden your science and engineering knowledge, giving you a unique opportunity to develop technical programme management skills and carry out technical networking inside and outside the company.
Safety
Our safety teams undertake a wide range of vital and proactive roles. Some investigate the potential consequences of design, engineering and operational failures, modelling accident scenarios and identifying controls to prevent them. Others provide frontline support to operations, undertaking investigations and providing radiological or conventional safety advice.
Our roles offer the opportunity to work with the range of operational and decommissioning facilities, liaising with a diverse group of people at many levels within the company including operators, designers and engineers. Structured training programmes focus on the technical aspects, while hands-on experience develops wider a range of attributes, leading to skills that are recognised site and industry wide.
Environmental Management
Environmental management is an integral part of delivering the Sellafield Plan going forward (ranging from decommissioning to reprocessing activities). In environmental management you will be advising plant operators on a broad scope of environmental management requirements linked to environmental legislation and best practice. You will attain working knowledge of industrial regulation through working with and advising on compliance with the sites permits issued by the Environment Agency; and have the opportunity to work with regulators and other stakeholders. Through site permits Sellafield is required to operate to Best Available Techniques, you will be involved in assessing operations and looking for and implementing improvements in environmental performance. Delivery of improvements will involve and develop technical and behavioural skills and require working with multidisciplinary teams, developing a broad understanding of complex industrial site. The site has a broad range of environmental roles, which align with the broad scope of work e.g. provision of central advice, direct plant support, discharge monitoring and statutory reporting, and supporting the extensive environmental monitoring programme etc. which provide the opportunity to develop a diverse career as an environmental manager and become a chartered professional.
Project Management
Sellafield Ltd are charged by the NDA with the safe and efficient operation of one of the most complex nuclear sites in the world. One of the main activities of the company is the delivery of projects that improve the operation of both the site and individual plants and remove nuclear legacy facilities. These projects can range in capital cost from half a million pounds to £500 million.
Project managers are the people who have the responsibility of delivering these projects safely, ahead of schedule and at the best value for the UK tax payer.
Project managers working for Sellafield Ltd lead an integrated project team of safety, engineering, construction, operational and commercial professionals in the planning, design, construction then commissioning or decommissioning for some of the most challenging projects in industry.
Sellafield Ltd has a career path, accredited by the international project organisations the APM and PMI, that supports and develops its community of project managers for the mutual benefit of the individual and the company.
Graduates who are suitable will follow a structured training programme to develop their competence in project management through assignments working for and being coached by different project managers. During their career they will be mentored by experienced project managers.
