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Requirements:
- Project Management: Minimum 2.2 Bachelor’s/BEng degree in an engineering, commercial, science or project management related subject.
- Project Engineering: Minimum 2.2 Bachelors/BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering, Design Engineering, Process Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Science, Sustainable Energy.
Our teams and what they do
Our Nuclear team works collaboratively across the industry, building trust and delivering exceptional engineering solutions to our key clients. It’s a really exciting time to be a part of our team, with decades of nationally and internationally critical projects in the pipeline. For you, this means unrivalled opportunities to develop your career by joining a growing team operating in a fast-paced environment and delivering solutions to our clients’ most challenging engineering requirements.
As a Graduate Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for the delivery of projects to time, cost and quality primarily in the nuclear sector. This could include:
- Interfacing with internal clients such as the engineering team and project support functions.
- Interfacing with external stakeholders such as client organisations, our delivery partners and our supply chains.
- Gaining an understanding of and complying with our company processes and procedures.
- Monitoring of project performance and reporting of that to both internal management and client organisations using tools such as earned value management.
- You could also be tasked with leading and coordinating high quality, industry-leading bids.
As a Graduate Project Engineer, you will be working in a multi-disciplinary team of Mechanical, Electrical, Building Services and Project Engineers who work across all stages of the nuclear project lifecycle from new build to operations to decommissioning to deliver multi-disciplinary packages of work on key facilities, systems and components across the full spectrum of Nuclear Power. As a project engineer you would be working in roles related to the design, analysis and assessment of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, Electrical Systems and Mechanical Process systems. These can be stand-alone technical tasks or as part of large multi-disciplinary projects.
As a Project Manager or Project Engineer, you will be working within an interdisciplinary engineering team to achieve a common goal. This role will allow you to develop technical and project skills through targeted training opportunities, on the job experience, mentoring and continual professional development such as chartership progression. There is also the potential to develop your management skills by leading other team members within a project-based environment.
In joining our Nuclear business, you’ll be part of one of three key teams in the UK:
- Reactor Operations
- Power New Build
- Decommissioning
Locations for this business will include: Bristol, Epsom, Manchester, Whitehaven (West Cumbria).
(Please note locations may close due to volume of applications - if your preferred location isn't available when you go to apply please select an alternative.)
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