Career building with AMEC's nuclear business
Career building with AMEC's nuclear business. Russ Green's story.
After graduating from the University of Liverpool with a BEng in Metallurgy and Materials science, I wanted to join a company that could recognise my potential and nurture it towards a successful career. I approached an AMEC nuclear business representative at a career fair, who was on the graduate training scheme. He detailed the content and the structure of the course, speaking of the balance between hands-on experience and taught courses. I decided this sounded like the ideal company to release my potential and nurture my skills as a scientist. I applied and was successful, accepting an offer to work within the Corrosion and Chemistry team at Birchwood, Warrington. Upon joining the company I started an 18-month training scheme. I was assigned an industrial mentor to help guide me through the training process all the way to chartership with my chosen institute.
I was surprised at the high amount of responsibility I was given from the very beginning and at how warmly I was welcomed by the other members of the team. My Supervisor was keen to get me involved with a broad spectrum of work from project management to practical experimentation, desktop reviews to site work making the training period very challenging and interesting. Within 6 months of joining the company I was sent out to Michigan, USA with a specialist team to seal a leaking reactor-cooling shield. I have also been given the chance to further my studies as AMEC's nuclear business are funding me to do an MSc in corrosion control engineering at UMIST, showing a devotion to bring out the best in their people. The help and encouragement radiated by my fellow team members have inspired me to learn and evolve from a university graduate to a qualified consultant.