Nordic Nuclear Trainee Program - Nuclear Technical Engineer

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 Nuclear Technical Engineer
You will be part of the department Engineering which responsibilities are technical status and development of the facilities, and performs technical analyzes and design solutions for reconstructions and modernizations. Ringhals unit for plant design (NTT) is the unit at Ringhals that is responsible for ensuring that Ringhals power plants meet regulations and that its licensing and construction basis is maintained. The current position is at NTTL, which is responsible for licensing of the facilities.


Key responsibilities:
Your main focus will be supporting Ringhals 3 and 4 in planning and conducting own and others analysis work, manage technical issues from the organization and the continues work with safety matters. Your technical expertise is within the I&C area.
• Work with the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) and its analyzes for Ringhals 3 and 4
• Establish strategies in the I&C area for future work and major complex issues, for example within the facilities development and decommissioning
• Primary safety review of cases to ensure the facilities design basis
• Interpretation of new government regulations and industry standards within I&C area


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, 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:
• Education with specialization in chemistry, physics, mechanical, electro, automation or similar
• Very good interpersonal skills
• Independent working style
• Well above average learning ability and willingness
• Well organized and quality minded
You also have good collaborative and initiative ability, this is important because you will collaborate with both internal and external contacts within Ringhals.


Location: The base location of this role is at Ringhals


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 on diversity & inclusion 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 at 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 Johan Schlichting at
Johan.Schlichting@vattenfall.com
Regarding the recruitment process - responsible recruiter Lina Friberg at lina.friberg@vattenfall.com
Union representatives: Johanna Dannberg - Akademikerna, Eva-Lena Green - Unionen, Lars Nydén - Ledarna, Mårten Walfridsson – SEKO available at 0340-66 70 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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