At EDF, Success is Personal. That means your journey is unique to you. Join our Nuclear Technical Engineering Services Industrial Placement and you’ll gain hands-on experience, develop key skills, and help Britain achieve net zero – all while shaping a career that’s truly yours.
"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 and Engineering Industrial Placement.
The Opportunity
This 12-month placement offers a starting salary of £26,050 and the chance to work on site at Heysham 1.
You’ll launch your career in Nuclear Technical Engineering Services with our customised training programme. Taking on a real job at a junior level, you'll gain invaluable hands-on experience while being mentored by highly skilled professionals.
You’ll help support the work of the Technical Advice Group and be involved in planning and delivering engineering work. You’ll develop skills in fault finding, technical problem solving, and identifying suitable repair strategies to support plant reliability and performance. You'll also gain exposure to the engineering change process, learning how modifications are assessed, governed, and implemented within a highly regulated environment. Along the way, you'll build experience in team working, human performance tools, and plant operations, with opportunities to explore other areas across the station.
What You’ll Experience
During your Nuclear Technical Engineering Services Industrial Placement, you’ll gain an understanding of the role of the Technical Advice Group within a running power station, as well as an understanding of AGR functionality. You’ll learn about systems and processes vital to the safe and effective operation of the station, including safety protocols, technical governance, quality assurance, analysis, communication strategies, and IT systems.
You’ll support engineers in investigating plant issues, developing fault-finding techniques, evaluating suitable repair strategies, and contributing to the engineering change process. You'll gain experience in reviewing technical information, supporting the delivery of engineering work packages, and helping ensure modifications and repairs are implemented safely and effectively.
Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to further develop Planning & Project Management skills and build a professional network to support the successful delivery of work packages.
Your Work Location
You’ll be based on site at Heysham 1 Power Station, within the Technical Advice Group.
Who You Are
To be eligible for this scheme, you need to be on track to achieve, or have already achieved, a 2:2 undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Maths, Physics, Science or Engineering.
It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility, we reserve the right in our decisions to give priority to those who already have the right to work in the UK.
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 three of the past five years.
Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a starting salary of at least £26,050 per annum and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.
At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.
Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities.
As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to creating an accessible recruitment process and encourage candidates to tell us about any support they may need. Should you disclose a disability and meet the minimum criteria (which will include holding a relevant degree discipline/grade and achieving the required pass mark for Stage 1 Testing) for the role you’ll be progressed to the first stage of the selection process. Some of our roles at EDF attract large volumes of applications. When this happens, we’ll apply the Disability Confident scheme’s guidance on taking practical and appropriate steps selecting disabled candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Our Recruitment Process
We'll guide you through every stage and keep you updated along the way. You'll be supported by real people, with opportunities to ask questions, learn more and receive feedback where possible.
For our Early Careers Programmes, we use a combination of automated decision-making, assessment technology and human review.
Find out more by visiting: https://careers.edfenergy.com/articles/2025-8/AI-and-Automated-Decision-Making-in-Recruitment-at-EDF
Join us and find your success at EDF.
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