Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program – Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineer

Do you want to describe the world with physics?
Power Climate Smarter living - that’s our purpose. We are looking for new nuclear heroes to make this happen. Start your climate smarter career and become one of our Nordic Nuclear Trainees who start their journey in September 2022. Together you will contribute to our purpose and a fossil free future. All we ask from you is to use your Superpowers and share your energy to help us achieve our goal.

Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program
Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program (NNTP) is a unique opportunity for young talents. The program will give extensive skills and training for young nuclear professionals who are in the early stage of their career, and it will also offer a great possibility to build networks among nuclear professionals in the Nordic countries. NNTP is organized jointly by Fortum, Teollisuuden Voima, Uniper and Vattenfall. Read more about the program and our collaboration here https://nuclearhero.com/

Our offer to you as a Nordic Nuclear Trainee at Vattenfall
Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program is the kickstart of your career within Vattenfall. You are being offered a permanent employment and on top of that you will have the opportunity to develop your professional and personal skills over the course of 15 months. In the Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program you will take part in workshops and site visits during the seminar weeks. Between the seminar weeks, work rotations and project assignment, you will work with your colleagues in a regular position in the organization. Each position comes with a competitive salary and an excellent remuneration package.
Every trainee position is linked to a department within a specific business area and a working location. This means that each position has its own specific responsibilities and challenges and matching profile.

Your responsibilities as a Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineer
You will be part of the Safety Analysis group in the department Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel with responsibility to perform analyses related to the nuclear safety of Vattenfall’s plants using a set of computer software, physical correlations and calculation methods combined with good understanding of numerical simulations and physics. The group is also involved in Vattenfall´s recent efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuel, such as hydrogen production and new nuclear reactor concepts.
Your first challenge in our group will be to simulate a nuclear accident and compare results to a large scale test. This will give you an understanding of the code, modelling, validation, uncertainty and other aspects that are key factors in safety analysis and will help you on your journey. After this, we will decide your continues development together based on your skills and preferences with an aim towards specialist or technical leader within safety analysis.

Your profile
Whether you want a climate smarter career as a specialist, visionary manager or inspirational project lead in the nuclear industry, we offer you these possibilities within the Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program. We are looking for recent graduates holding a Master´s Degree of Science in Engineering Physics, Energy Systems, Mechanical Engineering or similar, with a maximum of 2 years' work experience from the nuclear industry. You are fluent in Swedish and English. Furthermore, you are willing to relocate for possible assignments throughout the organization. Of course you identify yourself with our principles: active, open, positive and safe.

You recognize yourself in the following qualifications:
• Creative mindset, natural curiosity and desire to develop your skills further and gain applied engineering experience in a technical team like ours
• Analytical skills and interest in numerical simulations, fluid dynamics and applied physics
• Enjoy working together in groups to solve technical problems combined with own individual analytical work

Location
The base location of this role is the Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel department in Solna.

Diversity & inclusion - in everything we do
At Vattenfall we build on the fact that diverse teams can outperform homogeneous teams. But we can only unleash and leverage the power of diversity, if we make everybody feel included. Read more about our important work here https://careers.vattenfall.com/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion/

More information
We welcome your application, including resume and cover letter, in English. Interviews will be held in Swedish. You can read more about Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program here https://careers.vattenfall.com/young-talents/nordic-nuclear-trainee-programme/

Last day to apply is April 10th 2022. Selection period starts in week 15, followed by interviews in week 16-17. An assessment is also part of the recruitment process and will take place on May 5th. The last step will be a pre-employment screening. Starting date of the Nordic Nuclear Program will be on September 27th 2022.

We look forward to your application!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact:
Regarding the Trainee Program - program coordinator Sara Sahl at Sara.Sahl@vattenfall.com.
Regarding the specific trainee position – hiring manager Emi Boström at emil.bostrom@vattenfall.com.
Regarding the recruitment process – responsible recruiter Carolina Bölander at Carolina.boelander@vattenfall.com.

Union representatives: Akademikerna Gustaf Trieber, Unionen Jan Stigbert, Ledarna Christer Gustafsson, SEKO Ingemar Eriksson. To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.

Vattenfall is a critical part of Sweden’s infrastructure and as such subject to a number of specific rules and regulations, in example security protection, nuclear non-proliferation and export controls. For these reasons there is an approval process prior to employment for a large number of positions. In addition, if candidates have applied for positions which will give them access to sensitive information or secured premises they must undergo a security vetting process in accordance with the Swedish Security Protection Act.
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