Launch Your Career with Our 2025 Graduate Programme!
Are you brimming with ambition and ready to make your mark in the professional world? Look no further! Our UK Graduate Programme is designed to catapult you into a thriving career, offering unparalleled opportunities for growth, learning, and success. Join Amentum in September 2025 and help us create a secure and vibrant future.
The role
As a C hemistry G raduate you will have the opportunity to be part of some of the biggest, most interesting and challenging projects facing the nuclear industry today. Our chemists provide both practical and theoretical support to projects across many aspects of the nuclear life cycle in both the civil and defence sectors, in the UK and worldwide. We provide chemistry support to projects including nuclear new build (both fission and fusion reactors), design of the next generation of nuclear reactors, supporting the UK operational nuclear fleet, nuclear decommissioning, and nuclear propulsion.
Your role could include providing analytical chemistry and radiochemistry support to our clients from our laboratories, commissioning and operating novel rigs to inform solutions to chemistry challenges faced by our clients or providing desk-based chemistry consultancy and regulatory support to support our clients across the nuclear life cycle. We apply modern science in new and different ways ; and help to develop new, cleaner, safer, or more efficient means of producing and harnessing nuclear energy to help combat climate change.
About you
- Have completed a Degree or Masters level qualification in a relevant subject by Summer 2025
- A flexible self-starter, keen to drive your career forward.
- Adaptable to change, with a thirst for learning new things.
- You must have the permanent right to work in the UK.
Why Join Us?
- Exciting Projects: Work with a diverse team of experts from across the UK and beyond to gain insights into our markets and clients.
- Comprehensive Training: Benefit from a structured development programme that covers everything from discipline-specific skills and professional accreditation to personal development.
- Mentorship: Receive guidance from seasoned professionals who are dedicated to helping you achieve your career goals.
- Career Progression: When you reach the end of the programme, it’s just the beginning! You’ll be supported to continue to develop your experience and capabilities to help progress your career and achieve professional registration.
- Supportive Community: Our hub-based model is focused around key locations, ensuring that you’ll be part of a supportive early careers community with plenty of social activities and experiential learning opportunities.
Selection Process
- Step 1: Apply Online
- Step 2:If you are selected, one of the team will be in touch to discuss the next steps of the selection process, this may include attending an assessment centre in one of our regional locations
- Step 3: Successful candidates will be offered a role to start in September 2025
What else we provide
- A flexible workstyle, embracing a hybrid working pattern and supporting those who need to balance work/life commitments a bit differently than others.
- Free single medical cover and digital GP service.
- Reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment, embracing the variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds and lifestyles of our employees through our Employee Networks
- A focus on safety, health, and wellbeing, prioritising our people through a supportive culture and positive mental health champion network .
We want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work
As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regard to the recruitment process (for example, if you require the application form in a different format or would like to discuss the Assessment Centre process in more detail), please contact us and we’ll be happy to help.
Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join our company, please you can contact us here .
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