Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program

4 weeks ago


Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom CASA of San Mateo County Full time
Unlock a Sustainable Nuclear Future

Are you ready to play a significant part in the UK's sustainable nuclear future? Our Graduate Development Programme is designed to nurture your talents, build your confidence, and enrich your expertise in nuclear engineering and related fields.

Program Highlights
  • STEM disciplines, with an emphasis on Chemical/Process/Nuclear Engineering
  • Non-STEM disciplines
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Leadership and Management
  • Nuclear biased subjects

In short, we solve complex nuclear, engineering, and infrastructure challenges for the UK every single day. Our world-class engineers and nuclear professionals tackle these challenges with the same spirit of innovation that has always run through our organisation.

The Graduate Programme

The Graduate development programme is a two-year continuous professional development scheme, providing you with a unique place to grow your career and empower the next generation of nuclear professionals. The scheme aims to enable, develop, and shape early career professionals into innovative specialists to support the delivery of Sellafield's mission.

Structured Support: Our dedicated Graduate development team will provide guidance and resources to make a meaningful difference to your learning journey in development days and outward bound, plus many more. As well as support from your technical pathways, who can offer discipline-specific advice and guide you in your future career development.

Connected Community: Our thriving graduate community, overseen by elected representatives, fosters a sense of belonging. Engage in regular social activities that complement your hard work, develop your social impact with charities and fundraising, or climb a wainwright, all as part of the graduate community.

Management: Lead Projects and Operations on Europe's Largest Nuclear Site

Our Management programme is split into two areas, Projects and Operations. Whether you are embarking on a career in Projects or Operations, you will have 6 monthly placements throughout your graduate scheme.

In Projects, you will typically take on the role of supporting a Project Manager, Programme Manager, or Project Controls Manager and will be given hands-on responsibility and accountability for delivering work on challenging, live projects and programmes.

On top of your annual salary, you'll have the opportunity to benefit from an annual bonus, linked to company performance, of up to £4000*. If you're relocating here from more than 30 miles away, we'll support you with a relocation allowance of £1,400 and give you plenty of information on the best areas to live and how to find a place too.

We aim to strike a good work/life balance by offering 30 days annual leave with statutory public holidays on top. We also offer an attractive defined contribution pension scheme – the company will match up to 13*. All of our employees can benefit from our 18 support networks, including the Nuclear Autism Support Network, oneLGBTQ+ Network, and Gender Balance Networks, to name a few.

Video interviews will take place from 11th November to 1st December 2024. For Cumbria-based schemes, face-to-face assessment centres will take place in Workington, Cumbria on 22nd, 23rd, 27th & 28th January 2025. For Warrington-based schemes, face-to-face assessment centres will take place in Risley, Warrington on 30th January 2025.

We don't want you to worry about getting to our assessment centre locations, financial support is available to those who may struggle to front the cost of travel upfront. Expected start date: late September 2025.

Sellafield has a proud vision of Diversity & Inclusion that aims to attract candidates into an inclusive and supportive workplace. We are honoured to be recognised as a Level 3 Disability Confident Employer. As users of the Disability Confident Scheme, you will be able to declare a disability when completing our application form or have the option to contact us directly should you require any assistance completing our application process.



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