Sellafield Ltd is the company responsible for safely delivering decommissioning, reprocessing and nuclear waste management activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
The company has sites at Sellafield in West Cumbria, as well as an extensive engineering design capability based at Risley in Warrington.
The site at Sellafield covers an area of six square miles and is home to more than 1,000 facilities.
The primary operations at Sellafield include:
- Risk and hazard reduction including decommissioning legacy ponds and silos which are among the oldest facilities on the Sellafield site
- Commercial operations including spent fuel management
- The safe treatment of low level, intermediate level and high level waste
- Asset care and maintenance
Sellafield Ltd also has the largest concentration of world-leading nuclear experts in Europe – and boasts over 60 years of skills and experience.
As one of the most complex nuclear companies in the world, Sellafield Ltd offers the most technically and commercially challenging projects within the nuclear industry.
With a nuclear renaissance underway Sellafield Ltd is still at the forefront of the UK’s nuclear industry and through the safe and expert delivery of its mission, will play a significant role in Britain’s energy future.
Due to the continued successes of our nucleargraduates Sellafield Ltd have decided to recruit more Graduate Trainees for 2020, from a more diverse range of backgrounds including:
- Technical i.e., Science / research roles;
- Commercial roles;
- Human Resources;
- Finance;
- Strategy and programme management.
As a Sellafield Ltd sponsored nucleargraduate, you will develop personally and professionally, enhancing the skills required to succeed both at Sellafield Ltd and in the wider industry. We will support you through chartership and work with you and your mentor to ensure you undertake placements and development opportunities which not only help you achieve this but also develop you as an individual.
We aim for success and at the end of the programme if you have successfully performed then you will be offered a permanent role with the organisation. The exact nature of the position depends on your experience and role availability however we are keen to work with you to understand your aspirations and long-term career goals and ideally we will find a role which helps meet these. In 2019, for example, all 5 of our sponsored graduate trainees moving off-scheme, were provided with multiple role options and will be transitioning onto permanent Sellafield Ltd contracts in the Autumn.
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