Civil Design Engineering Summer Placement 2025

Are you ready to play a significant part in the UK’s sustainable nuclear future?

Embark on an exhilarating 10-week summer placement and be a part of Sellafield Ltd’s mission of creating a clean and safe environment for future generations. Our Summer Placement is designed to equip you with invaluable skills and experiences that will not only enrich your academic journey when you return to university after the summer break but also set you on a path towards a bright future. On successful completion of the placement, you can be offered a place on our Graduate scheme the year you graduate.

Your summer adventure awaits!

Who are we?

We are delivering against national safety, security and energy needs. In operating, developing, and decommissioning the Sellafield site, we are also delivering the largest environmental restoration project in Europe.

In short, we solve complex nuclear, engineering, and infrastructure challenges for the UK every single day.

In the past, we have been responsible for breakthroughs such as the world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear power station, and today we are helping to keep lights on across the UK by safely receiving and storing spent nuclear fuel from the UK’s fleet of power stations.

Sellafield is the only site in the country that can safely manage all forms of nuclear waste, with our teams finding new ways to ensure it is kept safe until a permanent disposal facility is ready.
We are also guardians of the UK’s largest stockpile of nuclear materials.

Our world-class engineers and nuclear professionals tackle these challenges with the same spirit of innovation that has always run through our organisation.

All our activities are driven by a single purpose: to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.

We deliver on that purpose while providing value to:

• Our people – helping them to grow, develop and flourish;
• Our communities – creating a positive social impact in West Cumbria, Warrington and beyond; and
• Our industry – supporting the nation’s nuclear infrastructure, completing our decommissioning mission, and shaping best-practice standards.

Summer Placements

We’re on the lookout for dynamic students ready to embrace real responsibilities, tackling major projects that directly impact our present challenges and future mission. You’ll be at the forefront of business-critical tasks and gaining insights into nuclear professionalism in industry whilst being supported by the Sellafield ltd community. The Summer placement offers a snapshot of what it means to work in the nuclear industry, the possibilities and career pathways available.

On entering the organisation as a 10-week Summer Placement Scheme, you will develop objectives that can complement your university studies whilst gaining real work experience. The programme offers an insight into the world of nuclear whilst you demonstrate competence.

A comprehensive performance review will be conducted at the conclusion of your placement to assess your potential. On successful completion of the Summer Placement Scheme, you can be offered a position on our graduate development programme.

Civil Design Engineering: Risley, Warrington

Do you want to be part of designing some of the most unique and challenging engineering work in the nuclear industry? Are you looking for a placement programme that puts you at the forefront of engineering excellence?

Our nuclear heritage and mission to create a sustainable future provides unparalleled potential for our design engineers. There is no instruction manual for our mission. As a design engineer at Sellafield Ltd, you will part of a team that gets to create it.

From unexpected, on-plant situations requiring design support and advice, plant modifications on legacy facilities and infrastructure, to large multi-million pound new build projects, Design Engineering at Sellafield Ltd provides a great range of experience for students to get involved with.

Design Engineers at Sellafield Ltd face some of the most unique and challenging work in the nuclear industry, and our design engineering capability enables us to accelerate high hazard nuclear waste reduction in a safe, secure, environmentally responsible, cost effective and pragmatic manner. The individual work scope varies dependent on your discipline area; you will be expected to demonstrate your technical ability and engineering knowledge through the production of design deliverables. Alongside this, Design Engineers are also expected to exhibit the correct behavioural attributes, have a questioning attitude and a good understanding of the project lifecycles from concept design through to operation and decommissioning.

To learn more about our Design Engineering area, visit: https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/graduates-placements/graduates/programme-areas/design-engineering/

We are looking for:

For our Civil Design Engineering programme, we are looking for students currently enrolled at university studying to towards a degree in the following subjects:

• Civil or Structural Engineering (Masters level required and minimum of a 2:1 classification.)

Please note: Working at Sellafield Ltd requires you to achieve both security and medical clearance throughout the on-boarding process.

What you’ll receive in return:

For Summer Placement students your competitive salary will be dependent on what age you are when you join us and be pro rata over the 10 weeks you’re with us. You’ll also receive holiday allowance that reflects your length of employment with us.

• Ages 18-20: £18,500 pro-rata

• Ages 21 and over: £24,500 pro-rata

Following a successful summer placement with us, you may secure a place on our well-respected graduate programme before you have even completed your degree.

Key Information:

• Applications for our placement programmes will close on 27th October 2024.

• You will be issued an assessment to complete, the date you receive this will depend on when you apply. You will be given a deadline to complete this by and will find out the result of your assessment mid-November.

• Video interviews will take place from 11th November to 1st December 2024.

• Expected start date: 10th July 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.

• You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post, including assessment or interview invitations and any other type of correspondence relating to your application.

Before you apply:

We encourage you to complete our immersive, realistic preview into the life of a placement student at Sellafield before you start your application. Completing this preview will take less than 10 minutes and will help you understand both the type of challenges you may encounter, and if you’re likely to enjoy working here.

Visit: https://rjp.neurosight.ai/enc/GstpeCB9sNwskEQJLRjkleVODpPp68wi0fFdn3D4eqs

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