Graduate Project Manager - Graduate Scheme 2025

The salary for this role is £32,729.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

UKAEA’s two-year graduate scheme is split by 80% of your time developing both your general work-related skills and professional qualifications and 20% of your working time dedicated to graduate training and development.  Within the graduate training and development, there is a core suite of activities designed to develop your professional and business skills. Elements of this programme are flexible and can be tailored to your personal development needs and to those of your specific job role. 

The Role

The Graduate Project Manager is working closely with Project Manager on variety of projects and ensuring that they are executed to a high standard according to established project and technical management processes, leading to delivered solutions of an engineering integrity commensurate with nuclear operations.

• Support the Project Manager, including with project change management. 
• Responsible for the creation and management of key documentation for the project(s) 
• Responsible for keeping project databases and records up to date and in line with IDP 
• Management project changes and deviation documents 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and provide information for the assigned project(s) as requested 
• Analyse Project Data (including finances) and produce standard project reports 
• Project secretarial duties including organizing meetings and taking minutes 
• Ensure the tracking and timely close out of project actions 
• Coordinate and being proactive in closing actions for project manager 
• Ensuring that project risks and opportunities are managed 
• Support the broader project team, to ensure project success 
• Review and advise on project budgets, work orders and purchases 

Essential Requirements:

• Degree from a professional services type discipline such as project management, business, economics, procurement, finance. However, those with any degree discipline may apply.  
• IT literate, fluent in Microsoft Office, including Excel and Powerpoint 
• Excellent report/ minutes writing skills 
• Good interpersonal skills 
• Good planning and organizational skills 
• Be able to work autonomously, with initiative and minimum supervision

Other Duties:

• Be flexible and able to work across several projects and in several different teams 
• Provide support and cover for Central Engineering departmental admin if required. 

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.