WS ATKINS PLC Marking National Apprenticeship Week in the UK, Atkins' Energy business is proud to sponsor the nuclear supply chain apprentice of the year award at the 2015 Nuclear Skills Awards, taking place today in Manchester.
Christophe Junillon, director of Atkins' nuclear business in the UK, will present the nuclear supply chain apprentice of the year award.
The seventh Nuclear Skills Annual Awards Dinner is held in Manchester, and brings together representatives from high-profile organisations from across the nuclear sector to celebrate success in workforce development.
Atkins also launched its search for a new intake of engineering apprentices this week. Atkins currently employs over 185 apprentices and 1183 graduates across the UK and is also founding member of the 5% club, an industry-led campaign which commits members to having a minimum of 5% of their UK workforce on formal education schemes.
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Notes to editors: Atkins Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com ) is one of the world's leading design, engineering and project management consultancies*, employing some 18,000 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. Our people's breadth and depth of expertise and drive to ask why has allowed us to plan, design and enable some of the world's most complex and time critical projects. *15th largest global design firm (Engineering News-Record 2014) and the third largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe (Svensk Teknik och Design 2013). Recent Energy projects:• UAE's peaceful nuclear new build programme - providing technical assurance to lenders backing the United Arab Emirates' most ambitious energy infrastructure projects; • UK nuclear generation - part of the Strategic Supply Chain Partnership for EDF Energy's Nuclear Generation business providing additional expert engineering support as the company seeks to extend the life of its existing nuclear AGR fleet; • UK new nuclear programme - working collaboratively with Horizon Nuclear Power providing engineering and related technical services for a new generation of nuclear power stations at Wylfa Newydd, on Anglesey and Oldbury in South Gloucestershire, UK; • Nuclear decommissioning - currently preferred bidder on a new contract with Sellafield Ltd for its Silos Direct-encapsulation Plant (SDP) project in the UK, as part of an equal three-way joint venture with Areva and Mace (a.m.a.); • North Sea and Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms - extending the operational life of critical oil and gas platforms to allow cost-efficient and safe recovery of hydrocarbons from mature fields; • ENI assets in Australia - providing engineering and consultancy services to ENI across their portfolio of operating and non-operating assets and any future developments in Australia; • Shell's oil and gas assets worldwide - providing technical and safety engineering services to Shell's onshore and offshore assets worldwide under an Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA); • SSE offshore wind alliance - providing expert engineering and design support for the UK's biggest offshore wind alliance with Scottish and Southern Energy; • DONG Energy offshore wind farms - designing five offshore substations for DONG Energy's Walney and Burbo extension projects as well as the new Race Bank project; • Energy from Waste - helping Energos deliver an Advanced Conversion Facility as part of Viridor and Glasgow City Council's £146 million Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre (GRREC) in the UK; • Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)- Atkins is the technical adviser to the UK government's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for the CCS Commercialisation Programme which supports the development and deployment of full chain CCS demonstration plants. Recent projects from across the Group: Atkins is working across urban regeneration, master planning, national energy programmes, major transport schemes, water and environment projects - applying smart design solutions on projects including:
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