Hartlepool needs you!
Hartlepool Power Station is on the lookout for recruits for the team of tomorrow.
Every year the station handpicks a clutch of young people to join its apprenticeship scheme and receive on-the-job training over a four year period. When the same scheme was launched last year there were more than 250 applications for just seven places.
Kirsty Hopkinson, HR manager at Hartlepool Power Station, said: “This is a hugely exciting period at Hartlepool. There has never been a focus on nuclear like there is at this moment. We have just extended the lifetime of this plant to 2026 and have hopes to run it for even longer. Even when we finish generating there is years of work to be done defueling and then decommissioning this plant. There’s also the prospect of a new reactor coming here, after the Government said this town was the best spot for the next generation of a new type of nuclear.
“So anyone starting their career with us over the coming months will find themselves set up in a highly skilled, well paid, in-demand industry which could provide a job for life.”
The power station is also on the lookout for skilled engineers to fill a number of other key roles. Adverts are also out for Technical Advice Engineers, a Construction Manager, a Fuel Route Engineer, a Head of radiological Protection and a Quality Assurance Engineer.
Kirsty added: “Teesside has an incredibly rich pool of engineering talent. So we know there will be people out there working in similar roles in similar sorts of companies across the area. These are the people we want to hear from, folks with the sorts of skills we can make great use of. What we need is enthusiastic people, keen to learn, they don’t all have to have backgrounds in nuclear power just the attitude to want to help drive this station forward. There is so much to be done at the power station over the coming years that this is a great time to come onboard. If you think you fit our bill, please get in touch.”
Drop in sessions, where potential apprentice candidates can find out more about the industry and the roles on offer, will be held at the power station’s visitor centre on February 15 and February 19.
Book a space on Thursday, Feb 15 at 4pm, the 5.30pm session on the same day, or the 3pm slot on Monday, Feb 19.
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We operate five nuclear power stations and more than 35 onshore wind farms and three offshore wind farms. Since 2009, EDF has invested almost £9 billion in the nuclear fleet to improve reliability and extend station lifetimes. The five generating stations currently supply about 12% of the UK’s electricity demand.
EDF is building the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C. We are a minority investor (12.5%) in and major supplier to a replica plant at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C will provide low carbon electricity to meet 14% of UK demand and power around 12 million homes. EDF Group companies Framatome and Arabelle Solutions have a presence in the UK and manufacture critical equipment such as reactor pressure vessels and turbines.
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