Commercial Industrial Placement

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Commercial Industrial Placement

Get your career off to an electric start by applying for our diverse Commercial Placement Scheme. You will work on projects addressing immediate business needs while developing new skills helping to drive business results and future strategy. The Customers business has opportunities working with the teams developing our digital channels, a principal customer contact route. Our aim is to place digital and data at the centre of our customer activity.

You’ll be part of the team developing innovative solutions to improve our customer contact online, grow mobile engagement and create new propositions and services in Smart and Connected Homes. To thrive you’ll already have a good understanding of digital technologies and data analytical skills.

There are exciting opportunities within our Brighton based Blue Lab. Blue Lab is our innovation accelerator centre working to make ideas and innovations come to life, and to be ‘Simply Better’ at solving our customers’ energy needs. Projects could involve big data analytics, machine learning, automation and Al development. The ability to analyse and act on data is critical in today’s highly competitive energy market. You’ll get the chance to work on relevant and immediate business questions with exposure to the full project lifecycle from the identification of a business need through to delivery of a business outcome.

The Generation business has an opportunity in the Design Authority Human Factors team. The team provide technical advice to the Company’s power stations and corporate functions, on key safety and commercial issues, to ensure human factor elements are assessed and adequately addressed in plant operations, safety cases and design projects. The team provide advice to achieve improved human performance during a variety of operational stages. You’ll have the opportunity to work on various projects, gaining an insight into the nuclear industry and the chance to apply your knowledge of psychology to real life situations.

Requirements

You'll be studying for a degree relevant to your chosen industrial placement. You’ll be on track to achieve, or will have already achieved, a 2:1 undergraduate degree, or 2:2 postgraduate qualification in Science, Engineering, Maths, IT, Digital Design, Psychology or a related degree.

Successful candidates will demonstrate well developed communication skills and a willingness to learn. You will have the ability, and experience of, interacting within a team environment and displaying professionalism within a work setting. You will have the ability to demonstrate technical and analytical skills. Of key importance is a willingness to get involved with a variety of tasks to provide support as required and a desire to develop new skills.

Our Recruitment Process

To apply for an Industrial Placement start by registering and completing our online application. If your meet our minimum requirements we’ll ask you to complete an online situational strengths test, followed by an online numerical reasoning test.  If you’re successful following the online stages you’ll have the chance to tell us more about yourself during a short telephone interview. You’ll then be invited to a face to face interview, where you can demonstrate your capability and technical knowledge, as well as learning more about life at EDF Energy, our culture and our people.  If everything goes well through these stages, we’ll make you an offer as soon as possible. If you accept, you can look forward to the start of a very exciting and rewarding career with EDF Energy.

About EDF Energy

EDF Energy is a core part of the EDF Group and is one of the largest energy companies in Europe. In the UK we have approximately 15,000 employees. We are the UK’s leading generator and supplier of low carbon energy. We produce about one-fifth of the nation’s electricity from our nuclear, coal and gas power stations, wind farms, and combined heat and power plants. We have a focus on safe, dependable energy generation and an ethos of service excellence. We intend to play a leading role in new nuclear build in the UK and secure a ‘bright’ future for the combined business and its employees. We offer a breadth of placements ranging from highly technical, analytical roles to opportunities within our operational and sales teams.

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