Maths Graduate

EDF Energy; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading pension scheme

Electric vehicle leasing

Discounted gym membership

Life assurance

Tech vouchers

Experience days

Job summary

EDF Energy is offering a Maths Graduate programme based at Gloucester, with a starting salary of £37,500. You will rotate through technical placements in the nuclear sector, applying mathematical techniques to real-world challenges and building a solid foundation for a long-term technical career.

Across 16 months you gain experience across placements, learn from experienced colleagues, and align with EDF's net-zero goals, safety culture, and research development teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or postgraduate degree in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Radiological Protection, Hazards or related subject.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills and an interest in nuclear energy and technology.
• UK residency for the past three of the last five years for Security Vetting.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical and professional skills across placements applying mathematical techniques to real-world challenges in the nuclear industry.
• Use advanced modelling tools to support nuclear fuel performance analysis and safety case development.
• Contribute to projects that support nuclear safety, operational performance and innovation.

Skills

Mathematics

Problem solving

Communication

Nuclear energy interest

Education

Bachelor's or postgraduate degree in Maths/Physics/Chemistry/Radiological Protection/Hazards or related subject

Tools

ENIGMA

Finite Element Analysis

Job description

About the Role

Ready to use your maths skills to help solve some of the energy sector's most important challenges? At EDF, Success is Personal. You'll grow your confidence, build specialist knowledge, and work on projects that support Britain's energy future while helping deliver low-carbon electricity and supporting the journey to net zero.

The Opportunity

As a Maths Graduate, you'll earn a salary of £37,500 per annum and begin your career at EDF in early September 2027. You'll develop technical and professional skills while building a strong foundation for a long-term technical career.

Over the course of a 16-month programme, you'll gain experience across a variety of technical placements while applying mathematical techniques to real-world challenges in the nuclear industry. You'll contribute to projects that support nuclear safety, operational performance and innovation, helping the transition towards An Electric Britain.

What You'll Experience

As a Maths Graduate at EDF, you'll work on meaningful projects that contribute to the safe and reliable generation of low-carbon electricity. You'll use advanced modelling techniques, analyse complex data, and help support the UK's journey to net zero while developing valuable technical and professional skills.

You could work with advanced modelling tools such as ENIGMA to support nuclear fuel performance analysis, contribute to severe accident modelling and safety case development, or apply Finite Element Analysis techniques to assess reactor core behaviour. You may also collaborate with EDF Research and Development teams on modelling projects that support Hinkley Point C and future nuclear operations.

Throughout the programme, you'll learn from experienced colleagues across multiple teams and locations. Every placement will help you broaden your knowledge, strengthen your problem-solving skills and discover where your interests can take you within EDF.

Location

You'll be based at one of our key sites - #Gloucester - with opportunities to rotate across locations depending on your placements. This will give you valuable insight into different parts of our business and the wide range of career opportunities available across EDF.

Most roles require between three and five days per week on site. We'll provide practical and financial support to help make any placement-related relocation as smooth as possible.

Where This Programme Could Take You

Alexander joined EDF's Science and Engineering Graduate Programme in 2025. During his first year, he completed placements across Nuclear Services RPS, Nuclear Operations Fleet Engineering Governance and Oversight (FEGO) and Instrumentation & Control (I&C) Programme Level 3 Systems, gaining experience in a variety of technical teams and specialist disciplines.

His placements have included writing Safety Case Documents for Hinkley Point C Instrumentation and Control Systems and modelling the degradation of Neutron Flux Detectors within the AGR fleet. These experiences have helped him build knowledge, develop competencies and gain confidence working across a complex engineering environment.

Although I joined EDF as a maths graduate and initially felt unsure about working in an engineering business, I quickly realised how valuable and transferable my skills were. The variety of placements, supportive colleagues and opportunities to ask questions have helped me grow in confidence, and I've had real input into interesting projects that make a difference.

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 Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Radiological Protection, Hazards or a related subject. You'll also need strong communication and problem‑solving skills and an interest in nuclear energy and technology.

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 10 November 2026. Applicants must be able to attend on this date to be considered for the programme.

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, and more.

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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