Fri, 7 Dec 2012

Accelerating the safe and efficient clean-up of nuclear site Sellafield will create 500 new jobs, energy minister John Hayes announced yesterday.

Sellafield says that the vast majority of jobs will likely be filled locally.

The roles cover a wide array of disciplines including operations, craft and maintenance personnel, as well as some more specialist safety and technical positions. The 500 figure includes 50 local apprentices and a further 50 graduates from Sellafield’s long-established graduate recruitment programme.

Sellafield managing director Todd Wright comments: “The workforce at Sellafield is the best I’ve worked with in my career, which takes in many nuclear sites around the world, and these new additions will include some of our nuclear leaders of tomorrow – I’m very proud that this announcement has been made.”