Chemical and Process Engineering Undergraduate Placement Year

Chemical and Process Engineering Undergraduate Placement Year

Programme title: Chemical and Process Engineering Undergraduate Placement Year Salary: £26,784 Location: Warrington or BristolApplication closing date: 20 October 2026Start date: August 2027 Role ID: 74744

What you’ll be doing

Join our Cavendish Nuclear business for a Chemical and Process Engineering Placement Year and play a key role in delivering safe, secure, and sustainable nuclear solutions that support the UK’s clean energy future. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to nationally significant projects across nuclear new build, advanced reactor technologies, fuel cycle facilities, waste management, decommissioning, and life-extension programmes, helping to shape the future of the UK's nuclear industry.

Throughout your placement, you'll gain hands-on experience on live engineering projects, typically supporting at least two different projects during your placement year. Working as part of multidisciplinary teams, you'll apply the knowledge developed at university to real-world engineering challenges, carrying out technical assessments, analysing data, and presenting findings to colleagues and stakeholders. Depending on the project and stage of the facility lifecycle, you may perform engineering calculations, develop mass and heat balances, create process models, support HAZID workshops and design reviews, produce process flow diagrams, and contribute to 3D plant layouts using specialist software such as AutoCAD Plant 3D.

You could find yourself supporting the design of new nuclear facilities, helping extend the life of existing assets that contribute to UK energy security and the nuclear deterrent, or developing innovative waste management solutions that support the responsible cleanup of the UK's nuclear legacy. Alongside your technical work, you'll also have opportunities to contribute to STEM outreach activities and initiatives that support the communities in which we operate.