Graduate Radioactive Waste Consulting Career Path

CVs and cover letters are not required as part of the application process. Candidates will be assessed through a single-stage strengths-based interview.

Start your career with a global, employee-owned consultancy where your work can make a real difference. At Mott Mac Donald, you'll work alongside experts, contribute to meaningful projects, and have the support, learning opportunities, and experience needed to grow your career from day one.

At Mott Mac Donald, we’re committed to improving society through sustainable, inclusive, and impactful work. Our nuclear division plays a vital role in supporting the UK’s energy transition and environmental legacy—delivering complex projects in decommissioning, new build development, major refurbishments, and advanced nuclear technologies.

We’re looking for a passionate

Graduate Radioactive Waste Management Consultant to join our growing team. This is your opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that protect people and the planet, while developing your career in a supportive, caring, and empowering environment.

As a Graduate Radioactive Waste Management Consultant, you’ll support a wide range of clients across the nuclear lifecycle—from new build and operations to decommissioning. Your role will include:

• Providing timely and robust technical expertise in radioactive waste management.
• Advising on waste characterisation, treatment, storage, packaging, and consignment.
• Producing high-quality technical reports such as Waste Strategies, BAT studies, Sampling Plans, and Packaging Proposals.
• Supporting radiation protection activities, including drafting local rules and ionising radiation risk assessments.
• Assisting with project controls and bid preparation.
• Collaborating with other departments—such as safety case, contaminated land, technical advisory, and engineering—to deliver comprehensive solutions.

At Mott Mac Donald, we’re looking for curious, motivated graduates who want to make a real difference. Join our purpose-driven teams where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work enhances the world we live in.

• Environmental Management
• Radioactive Waste Protection
• Physics
• Other Engineering discipline

This opportunitiy will require you to be eligible to achieve security clearance. Security clearance is dictated by the types of projects we work on and normally requires you to be a UK British national or lived in the UK for five years or more.

We personally review every completed application form we receive as this part of our selection process is entirely human led – we do not use AI tools at this stage and kindly ask you not to either. We want you to answer each application question with authenticity so we can get to know the real you. Joining us as a graduate is your opportunity to shape your own story.

We are looking for graduates with the following strengths:

• Proactively takes initiative to complete tasks efficiently and independently.
• Communicates effectively and clearly with clients and colleagues.
• Delivers high quality written work with strong attention to detail and clarity.
• Demonstrates a structured and analytical approach to problem solving.

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024.

Our ethos is to develop, train and retain our graduates and therefore we are looking for a long-term relationship with our graduates. For this reason, we cannot accept applications from candidates who would be working under the Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas, (irrespective of visa duration), due to…