Chemistry Industrial Placement

**A career that will deliver change. Together, we can help Britain achieve net zero.**

Join our Chemistry Industrial Placement and you can make an immediate impact, powering the nation today, whilst helping to build a sustainable energy future for tomorrow.

"Electricity is such a vital component in everyone’s lives. It powers schools, businesses and hospitals, so I knew that if I did my placement within EDF then I would have a really large impact on society, and that made my placement a lot more fulfilling.”
**Priyanka, Science & Engineering Industrial Placement**

**What is the Industrial Placement Programme?**

We’re recruiting for students to join us on our Chemistry Programme, working at one of our key sites:

- Hinkley Point C (HPC), the largest construction project in Europe
- At an existing operating nuclear power station
- Nuclear Services, EDF’s centre of technical and licensing excellence supporting the new, future and existing fleet of nuclear power stations

Taking on a real job at a junior level, you'll have the opportunity to learn through hands-on experience under the guidance of highly skilled and experienced colleagues.

**What salary and benefits are we offering you?**
- Starting salary of £21,200
- 28 days’ annual leave
- Flexible benefits package
- Wellbeing, physical and mental health support services

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

**Training, development and support for you**:
Previous students on a Chemistry Placement have been involved in projects such as:

- Supporting improvements to safety through communications campaigns, training and other improvement projects
- Looking at how radiation protection supports the building and operational life of new power stations; developing the skills necessary to support a wide range of teams in order to provide advice on radiation protection.
- Assisting in running, maintaining and developing the condition monitoring programme throughout a plant

**Where you’ll work**:
Towards the end of the recruitment process you’ll be able to feedback your three location preferences from the below opportunities. We’ll match successful applicants to placements taking location preference in to consideration, together with your degree discipline and business needs.

Locations available include:

- Hinkley Point C (HPC) construction site or Satellite Delivery Centre, both in Bridgwater
- Gloucester Business Park
- Hartlepool power station, County Durham
- Heysham 1 & 2 power stations, Lancashire
- Sizewell B power station, Suffolk
- Torness power station, Scotland
- Aztec West office, Bristol
- Dungeness B power station, Kent

**What you’ll need to join the team**:

- On track to achieve or will have already achieved a 2:2 undergraduate degree or 2:2 postgraduate qualification in Chemistry
- Technical and analytical skills
- Desire to learn and develop new skills
- ** To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.**

**Join us. Together, we’ll help Britain achieve net zero.**

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