Sellafield
Employer: Sellafield Ltd
Sellafield Ltd is chemical engineering company responsible for the decommissioning of the Sellafield nuclear site, which is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The Sellafield nuclear site hosted the first the world’s first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, that exported electricity on a commercial scale to a public grid. Sellafield Ltd is in now responsible for cleaning and recycling onsite nuclear waste ensuring that is safe and secure. The video below explains in more details how they operate:Who Are They?
Careers
To clean, recycle and safety store nuclear waste Sellafield’s relies on a lot of different STEM, and non-STEM, based roles.
Among the different roles at Sellafield are:
- Chemical Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Physicists
- Civil Engineers
- Project manager
- Laboratory analysts
- Business analyst
- Operation managers
- Engineering apprentices
You can see what current vacancies Sellafield are available here.
Science links
Topics in Science that links with Sellafield Ltd and what the company does:
- Energy
- Electricity
- Atomic Structure
- Radioactivity
Harri Beatie
Harri has just finished her engineering degree at university. She studied how the weather affects how much energy wind turbines can capture. Harri is curious to find new ways for people to use renewable energies in their everyday lives! She just started her first job in an engineering company which produces batteries for hearing aids. In her new job, she studies which are the best materials to build batteries from, for different weather conditions. You might think you have cold ears, but batteries hate the cold even more than you do – so cold conditions can make hearing aids stop working.
Harri’s most magnificent thing
“I really love this activity because you can put weights in the paper cup to see just how amazing wind power can be!”
EDF
Employer: EDF
Electricity is a vital part of our everyday lives. The electricity is generated across the UK (and beyond) and then delivered to UK homes and businesses through the national grid network. EDF Energy is one of the largest electricity generators in the UK. They generate electricity from nuclear, gas and coal power stations across the UK, including a nuclear powerstation in Hartlepool. As well as electricity generation, EDF is researching ways to improve energy storage and efficiency, low-carbon technologies, and energy system design. They’re also looking at how to develop ideas to make smart homes and cities which will use less energy. EDF Energy is part of the EDF group which has sites worldwide. Among the jobs that people who work at EDF Energy have are: Topics that link to EDF and what the company does:Who Are They?
Careers
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Siemens
Siemens
Who Are They?
You will have probably used Siemens technology; their well known products include mobile phones and televisions. Siemens is one of the worlds largest and most successful technology companies, and they are passionate about innovation and change.
Siemens was established over 170 years ago and today employ nearly 14,000 people in the UK alone, with manufacturing sites in Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and another key site in Stockton, Teeside. The company is a large multinational company with bases in nearly 200 countries across the globe. Siemens specialise in a number of sectors:
- Power generation services including gas, wind power and renewables
- Energy management
- Building technologies
- Financial services
- Healthcare
Siemens are one of the world’s biggest producers of energy-efficient resource-saving technologies, as well as constructing offshore wind turbines which you will see across the region.
Siemens are not just about renewables though. They also design, develop and manufacture for example MRI scanners which are used in hospitals all over the world. The Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, has Siemens Engineers working at the hospital on a daily basis to make sure the scanners are working. Siemens also develop IT software which is used within a range of industries and variety of organisations including NASA to simulate the Mars Curiosity Rover!
Check out this great interactive 360′ tour of a wind farm, which allows you to explore wind turbines in further detail.
Careers
Some of the roles that people who work at Siemens have are:
- Client solutions engineer
- Customer support engineer
- Controls engineer
- Software engineer
- Manufacturing engineer
- Technical software architect
- Commercial sales manager
- Project manager
- Accountant
- Offshore commisioning technician
- Civil engineer
Science and Maths links
Topics in science and maths that link to Siemen include:
- Energy resources
- Energy and power
- Electric circuits
- Medical Physics (MRI)
- Health and Disease
- Ratio
Sectors
Energy, Engineering, Nuclear
Employer Size
Large enterprise
Focus/reach
national
Case Studies
Jack Haworth
Electrical Engineer at Sellafield
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