Industrial Placements - Physics

Job Introduction

We’re looking for excellent undergraduates who will help shape the future of our business. If you’re technically minded and your ideas for the future align with ours, we can offer you a world-class opportunity to develop your skills and discover yourself as a future talent in the nuclear industry. We have summer placement opportunities (minimum of 8 weeks) or 12-month industrial placements available. You will work at any of our sites on real projects that make a difference to the industry.

Role Responsibility

Discover Physics

Our roles are highly diverse. So when you join us, you’ll be working with brilliant minds and specialists from around the world. It means more opportunities to broaden your experience or specialise in your field. You could even take your career in a whole new direction.

Innovation, state-of-the-art facilities and world-class teamwork are what we do. And you’ll experience them every day when you join the National Nuclear Laboratory. Working here means powering the UK’s energy future, shaping and changing it too - by supplying pioneering R&D that monitors, safeguards and drives the nuclear world forward. You will play a key role in driving nuclear safety and helping to protect the environment for the future generations to come.

What will you discover?

The Ideal Candidate

Our work is diverse and calls on a number of different skills and disciplines. We’re looking for people studying Chemical Engineering, Materials, Chemistry, Physics & Mechanical Engineering.

We’ll make sure you have the best experience and learning if you join NNL on your industrial experience placement.

Our placements will typically start in Summer 2017 (June/July), usually for a minimum of 8 weeks although durations are negotiable.

We also offer placements in the academic calendar and over the longer term such as 12 months that best suit the requirements of your course. We can tailor your stay to meet the requirements of your degree.

Students will receive a competitive salary whilst on placement with the NNL and could be based at any of our UK locations. We also offer weekly assistance towards accommodation should you need to live away from home.

Placements contribute towards our resourcing strategy. Successful applicants will be strong candidates for eventually joining our graduate programme.

National Nuclear Laboratory