EDF UK
Instrumentation and Control Engineering Graduate
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Job Description
Looking for a career where you can learn, grow and make a real impact? At EDF, Success is Personal. As an Instrumentation and Control Engineering Graduate, you'll develop specialist engineering skills, work on one of Europe's largest construction projects, and help shape the future of Britain's energy infrastructure.
The Opportunity
As an Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Engineering Graduate at Hinkley Point C, you'll earn a salary of £37,500 per annum. The programme is expected to begin in early September 2027, when you'll join our graduate community and start building your career at EDF.
Over the course of this 16-month programme, you'll gain hands-on experience across a range of engineering activities including:
- Control equipment maintenance
- Protection systems
- Installation support
- Software assurance
- Cyber security
You'll develop the skills and knowledge needed to progress into a permanent role while contributing to EDF's mission of supporting the transition towards An Electric Britain.
Continuous professional development is an important part of your journey. You'll have opportunities to undertake development through accredited and non-accredited bodies, with the expectation of working towards relevant professional registration and continued career growth beyond the programme.
What You’ll Experience
Being part of Hinkley Point C means helping to shape the future of low-carbon energy. You'll contribute to a project that will provide clean electricity for millions of homes while supporting the UK's energy security.
You'll gain practical experience:
- Developing maintenance routines for control equipment
- Reviewing protection system designs
- Supporting installation activities and troubleshooting alongside experienced technical teams
- Contributing to software assurance activities and cyber security audits within a highly regulated engineering environment
No two days are the same. You could be:
- Supporting commissioning and configuration teams
- Maintaining design documentation
- Participating in validation testing
- Collaborating with system designers to help deliver one of the UK's most significant engineering projects
Every experience will help you build confidence, technical expertise and professional capability.
Location
You'll be based full-time at Hinkley Point C for the duration of the programme. Working alongside experienced engineers and technical specialists, you'll gain first-hand experience in a unique operational environment and build strong professional networks across the site.
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Due to operational activities, you'll be expected to work on-site five days per week. You'll therefore need to live, or be willing to relocate, within a reasonable commuting distance of Hinkley Point C.
Where This Programme Could Take You
Jaisan joined EDF's Instrumentation and Control Engineer graduate pathway and experienced first-hand the breadth of opportunities available across the Hinkley Point C project. Working with a range of teams, he developed valuable technical knowledge while contributing to important engineering activities.
The experience helped him build strong foundations for a long-term engineering career. Through exposure to experienced colleagues, complex systems and real project challenges, he gained skills and knowledge that continue to support his professional development.
"The HPC I&C Programme has been a great learning experience; the teams I've worked in have been nothing but supportive and always happy to help out. The programme is tried and tested, meaning there is a wealth of knowledge available to you in the form of former graduates and knowledgeable colleagues."
Who You Are
To be eligible for this EDF graduate programme, you need to have achieved, or be expecting to achieve, a bachelor's or postgraduate degree in a STEM subject. This includes generic STEM degrees that demonstrate strong scientific, analytical and numerical capability, such as psychology, biology, medicine, environmental and natural sciences, economics and geography. You'll have an interest in nuclear energy and technical problem-solving.
It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility, we reserve the right in our decisions to give priority to those who already have the right to work in the UK.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.
Please note that an Assessment Centre stage of the hiring process will take place online on 25 November 2026. Applicants must be able to attend on this date to be considered for the programme.
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Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a starting salary of at least £37,500 per annum, potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as:
- Electric vehicle leasing
- Discounted gym membership
- Life assurance
- Tech vouchers
- Experience days
At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that's unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it's your journey, powered by us.
Everyone is welcome at EDF; we're committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities.
As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to creating an accessible recruitment process and encourage candidates to tell us about any support they may need. Should you disclose a disability and meet the minimum criteria (which will include holding a relevant degree discipline/grade and achieving the required pass mark for Stage 1 Testing) for the role you’ll be progressed to the first stage of the selection process. Some of our roles at EDF attract large volumes of applications. When this happens, we’ll apply the Disability Confident scheme’s guidance on taking practical and appropriate steps selecting disabled candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Our Recruitment Process
We'll guide you through every stage and keep you updated along the way. You'll be supported by real people, with opportunities to ask questions, learn more and receive feedback where possible.
For our Early Careers Programmes, we use a combination of automated decision-making, assessment technology and human review. Find out more by referring to our EDF Recruitment – AI and Automated Decision-making policy.
Join us and find your success at EDF.
We aim to close applications on the 1st October, but we may close earlier due to volumes.
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Additional Information
Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transition towards An Electric Britain.
Shift Work?: No
Career area: Graduate Schemes
Primary Contractual Location: Hinkley Point C
Term of Employment: Permanent
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